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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I think what'a fundamentally happening here is that people on Lobsters (and, to a lesser extent, Hacker News) think I write blogs for them.

Like I want their attention.
Like I want their approval.
Like I want to be one of them.

Nope. I was never welcome in your spaces beyond some notion of "usefulness". You can even observe an echo of this observation in the comment thread.

I am not, and never can or will be, a person of high esteem to that crowd.

So why would I write for you?

I write for my goddamn self. I write to help the people in my own space. Most are queer or furry (and the ones that aren't, simply don't mind that we are). They see me as part of a community, not some jackass on a pedestal that has to adhere to some abstract ideal of noble and/or academic etiquette.

My writing is messy, raw, and real.

What some people call arrogance or condescension is really frustration that, despite a better world being possible, egos get in the way of it happening.

So, lol, no thanks.