Yeah, I mean I'm fortunate in that I find your articles easy to read (including most of the ones you reblog), and a few others too, though I don't envy yourself and those others being the sort of buffer zone between the toxic stuff and the constructively critical / non-toxic stuff. It's tough though. Super tough.
As for the 'internet fame' thing (pfft, such as it is), I mostly try not to be a dick. Sometimes I get it right. Sometimes I don't. It has taught me a very 'walk away and respond *later* ethos' - and these days I tend to delete troll messages, because I decided I didn't want other people seeing that on my dash. Though thankfully it's been a very long time now since I've been told I'm a rapist and child abuser for you know... posting heavily tagged noncon/dubcon on AO3. But every time I get a Tumblr message notification, I still get mild anxiety attacks before opening it, because it's like 'will today be the day someone decides to dogpile because they don't like what I do.'
Probably also why I'm so avoidant about this kind of stuff, actually. :/ I'd love to have more discourses about it, but I no longer feel welcome in most of them, and as someone processing my PTSD in a very lonely environment as is, I just don't want to pile more stressors on top of that.
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As for the 'internet fame' thing (pfft, such as it is), I mostly try not to be a dick. Sometimes I get it right. Sometimes I don't. It has taught me a very 'walk away and respond *later* ethos' - and these days I tend to delete troll messages, because I decided I didn't want other people seeing that on my dash. Though thankfully it's been a very long time now since I've been told I'm a rapist and child abuser for you know... posting heavily tagged noncon/dubcon on AO3. But every time I get a Tumblr message notification, I still get mild anxiety attacks before opening it, because it's like 'will today be the day someone decides to dogpile because they don't like what I do.'
Probably also why I'm so avoidant about this kind of stuff, actually. :/ I'd love to have more discourses about it, but I no longer feel welcome in most of them, and as someone processing my PTSD in a very lonely environment as is, I just don't want to pile more stressors on top of that.