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I do think one important piece to add back to OP's post is - Pay attention to nuance *in real life.* Someone liking fiction that has zero nuance doesn't mean that they ascribe zero nuance to their real lives any more than people liking fictional villains makes them villains in their real lives. Sometimes people get exhausted of the gray spaces they inhabit every day in the real world with real people, and fiction is their pleasant escape from that reality for a while. A way to de-stress that harms zero real people. And this, too, is as valid as any other story preference.

Nuance is far more important as a tool for remembering the equal humanity of someone who loves the kinds of stories you hate, then it is as a tool for writing The Best Kind Of Literature.

(Though it can, of course, make for some damn good literature, too!)

90% of arguments about media could just be solved by saying “different people like different things in their stories” and leaving it at that

Am I the only one who finds the Council of Elrond incredibly funny? The fact that when something goes wrong, everyone in Middle Earth immediately goes to Elrond for advice, whether an elf, a dwarf, or a man, is just- well. We all know who has all the brain cells in Middle Earth and surprisingly enough, people of Middle Earth seem to know it as well.

So maybe they should start actually listening to him.

Gollum escapes? -> Elrond

Nazgul are being annoying and knock on your door ten times a day? -> Elrond

Sauron's ring has been found? -> Elrond

You have a weird dream? -> Elrond

Saruman is being a dick? -> Elrond

Most of those people don't live even near Rivendell, but evidently, Elrond is just a to-go person when you or someone else fucks up.

Then there's Bilbo chilling on a visit.

i think it's time for bed I couldn't remember the word "foal" and i thought to myself "horse sapling"

I'd say this also goes for things like tumblr asks/replies/reblogs. That person has Opinions that are The Worst, and you desperately need to say something about it? Say something to a friend. Write your own post on your own blog that's distanced enough from OP that it won't send other people mobbing after them. There are many options that don't involve being a dick to a random total stranger who you disagree with in fandom!

sometimes people are absolutely WILD about comments, acting like the idea that they shouldn’t be a jerk is a violation of their first amendment rights 

last week i read a fic i HATED. it was well written and highly recommended and i wish i had never read it. hours of my life i will never get back. 

i disagreed with: it’s interpretation on canon, it’s take on mental health, the social contract between loved ones, recovery, trauma, boundaries, and … more tbh

i could NOT stop thinking about how much i disagreed with it. me and this fic have philosophical differences so large i could give a ted talk and i was still super irritated about it days later. 

so you know what i did?

i called up my friends and was like “you guys have no context but i’m going to bitch about this fic you haven’t read in this fandom you haven’t consumed for the next thirty minutes” and they were like “okay sure it’s a tuesday night, we’re in a pandemic, i have nothing better to do”

what did i not do? 

leave a comment on this person’s fic because i’m a human person