fuzzy post-it

since there has been one microscopic allegation about me, i might as well address it directly

the post in question was this one (and i apologize for thus revealing the identity of the accuser, but it’s hard to do otherwise here — my plea that you not antagonize him still stands).

to summarize: someone had made a cute edit of a pokémon screenshot, so the gender options were “boy”, “girl”, and “other”. this spawned an argument with some asshole who thought that nonbinary people were whiny babies and should just suck it up, or something. the accuser reblogged this, which is how i saw it.

i thought the argument itself was pretty bad all around, but also had an idea for my own edit, and so i made an image where the answers to “are you a boy? or are you a girl” were merely yes/no. i thought it made for a better and slightly humorous nod to enbies.

i didn’t want to include the entire argument, but wanted to preserve the context that there had been an argument, so i replaced everything everyone had said with one-line nonsense making fun of them. then i got to the accuser’s reply, which no longer made sense without the context, but which wasn’t actually a bad post. for lack of any better ideas, i replaced his words with a single unicode glyph of a music note. my keyboard is set up to let me easily type a few unicode characters, and it was one of them: ♪.

unfortunately, the accuser thought i was making fun of him, which i learned second-hand. i was pretty devastated that one of my few clumsy interactions with him had backfired so severely.

which brings me to the following

[4/17/2013 12:08:54 PM] purplekecleon: vee felt like shit for a while after realizing his thing had made you feel bad
[4/17/2013 12:09:05 PM] xxxx: oh no
[4/17/2013 12:09:07 PM] purplekecleon: i just now remembered to bring it up to him
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[4/17/2013 12:13:29 PM] purplekecleon: (12:12:05 PM) Vee: anyway yes SORRY XXXX here is an alternative unicode: ♥
[4/17/2013 12:13:42 PM] xxxx: awwwwwww
[4/17/2013 12:13:52 PM] xxxx: haha im glad it was all just a big misunderstanding

i am deeply saddened to see these events reduced to a mere “vee making me cry”, and to see the few interactions i had with this person now being used as ammunition.