A weird thing that happened to me on discord once

@JoshRaed JoshRaid
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:05:28 +0000

@JoshRaed wrote:

Looking back on this in honestly super mad that me venting about homophobes in a toxic writing server got turned into this discourse about what a bad writer I am because I was slight vague on the details. Like do people here just never talk about their characters without having fully written them? Like they never have a moment where they mention a less than developed OC in a comment thread? Because that’s literally what I did and any indication of what they thought I did was pure speculation.

Then I said “a gay character CAN be done” was a bad thing to say (Imagine someone saying that a black character could potentially be a good character) and people just did not understand.

And my two sentences of venting got turned into me being obsessed with this story somehow and was treated like I was not allowed to be upset about the misunderstanding of my very simply words because I hadn’t written the story in question. Like by the time I had made that post this characters main thing was basically being a rockstar, I just hadn’t committed to that yet.

Why does no one on the internet ever hear me speak slightly ambiguously and assume the less terrible option? Why is everyone else seemingly given the benefit of the doubt all the time about actual homophobia or blatant misunderstandings, or pulling up my comic release history as a way of attacking me for venting for two seconds because being upset at homophobia was suddenly a distraction from my writing once I do it on the forums.

Like if it wasn’t me making this post in the context of other posts no one would have reacted like they did. I understand the difference, but come on, can’t something just be a thing and not a secret piece in the puzzle that is my failures as a writer?