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liar.

“yeah”

“‘Sorry?’ Percy growled. Annabeth put a hand on her boyfriend’s chest.”

• if you like something, people will make fun of you because you have admitted to experiencing a sincere emotion. this makes people defensive about what they like.
• if you don’t like something, people will take your opinion personally and attack you. this makes people feel like they have to have a very good reason to dislike something.
• people reach for reasons to like vs dislike things that are serious and often politically relevant so they can defend themselves from other opinion-havers.
• these positions mutually reinforce each other until it is assumed that any declaration of liking or disliking something is both personally and politically relevant by default.
• i am forced to look at this every time one of my fandom posts blows up.

Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don’t want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!