reminding myself anytime someone is leaving vaguely assholey but not over the top replies to check their profile because big chance they’re a troll trying to trick you into thinking they’re real GD IT WHY DOES THIS SOUND LIKE FAIRYTALE TALK
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Well, in a sense. There's a lot in common between the "Fair Folk" of Europe and the Japanese Yokai. Both have a variety of appearances, some are harmless, some eat people, and the rest are somewhere in between those extremes. There's also the etiquette that only makes sense to others like them.
I am sorry creature pretending to have a human name, but if your profile is full of screeds about how diversity is destroying the country AND you were being a condescending jerk to a woman making a clear joke, Imma call troll!
if I go to your replies and EVERYONE HAS BLOCKED YOU, you might want to see your doctor because if you get bit by a troll on the new moon you turn into one! Maybe!
Yes! You are totally 100% correct. Blocklists are like saying "Sorry, horrid imp, you cannot enter here because your true name has been inscribed on The List of Demons." Love it.
Blocklists sort of work too well, half the time anyone posts a “Here is a new asshole to block” post, I go and enter their usernames and don’t even see it listed.
I wonder: “another typo?” Eventually I conclude, “No I spelled right, blocklist must just not show them here.”
And then there's those whose bios and posts are all cats and sweetness and light, and whose replies are ranting racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia.
And followed by your mutuals who didn't look deep enough.
@beledit.bsky.social should prominently display the reported posts a profile has.
Because (as I was explaining to someone who doesn't like lotr because they think magic makes everything easy) dragons and trolls are people and corporations in real life. We meet them every day, and they behave in the way the myths say they do.
Im sure we can all think of someone like Smaug, who has taken over the palaces built by other more creative people, filled their halls with filth and poison and sits in the middle of the deepest cellar on a big pile of gold (of which he knows the market value but cannot tell a good bot of work from
bad), absurdly pleased with himself and, thinking his wealth has made him invulnerable, enthusiastically attacking a large trading city based on an island across a large body of water.
Haven't some people proposed that the concept of the changeling, a child being stolen from the crib and replaced with a disguised Fae, originated as a way to explain neurodivergence?
That without what we know now, it was the only way they could think why some children acted that way?
I wonder if Brontë was referring to that in her 1847 novel Jane Eyre. Jane is autistic af (and her childhood friend Helen is ADHD). When she's a child, people make derogatory remarks about how uncanny she is, and when she meets Rochester, he has a running joke about how she's an elf, fairy etc.
No matter what, never let the troll learn your real name. And never accept gifts from them or invite them into your house, either. If you must talk to them, waer a disguise.
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I am sorry creature pretending to have a human name, but if your profile is full of screeds about how diversity is destroying the country AND you were being a condescending jerk to a woman making a clear joke, Imma call troll!
I DON’T KNOW SIR ARE YOU A TROLL
https://bsky.app/profile/robinthewriter.bsky.social/post/3lcfdpstn2c2a
I wonder: “another typo?” Eventually I conclude, “No I spelled right, blocklist must just not show them here.”
And followed by your mutuals who didn't look deep enough.
@beledit.bsky.social should prominently display the reported posts a profile has.
Lack of sleep and no glasses.
I suffer from post X sarcasm defense syndrome and it's the name of my existence
His only non-reply skeet was a picture of his crotch.
This was my lesson in checking accounts before trying to engage in good faith. But also MY EYES
That without what we know now, it was the only way they could think why some children acted that way?
Like no thank you I do not use my name in the dark forest* tyvm!
*Al Gore’s internet