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239: how does one become popular on dreamwidth rp?

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"I said the next person who showed me a basic lack of courtesy was getting their finger bitten off."

Bee's own words, imo that sounds like pretty much what anons interpreted it as. Sure it's a vent plurk but it's still a fucking weird thing to say.

that's not at all a weird thing to say.

it's obvious comic hyperbole, anyone with any sense knows she's not going to literally bite people's fingers off. are you a fucking child?

Most of us outgrew that kind of edgy hyperbolic violence when we were about 23 or so. We have this conversation all the time, anon. Half of us still like that humor, and the other half wants the first half to grow the fuck up.

love how you went from it being valid to have interpreted that as an actual threat to just saying it was immature the moment someone pointed out how stupid it is to take it so seriously.

you'll never catch me if i keep moving my goalposts!!!

Probably because you were talking to different anons

nobody is taking it literally

the problem is that until we see a pastebin, we only have bee's comment to go off

and they sound deranged on that comment, so from the little clues that we have, it sounds like they threw a fit because someone asked them not to tag them and they're blaming it on rl stress

it's what the "comic hyperbole" represents: a whiny baby ranting because they weren't told not to tag a log. that comic hyperbole is still a stupid reaction to have to such a request

"nobody is taking it literally"

except the people in rpanons, dave's player included, acting like it was somehow a valid threat.

because the original anon described it as a threat. dave-player shouldn't have believed them, i agree there, but the only anon making it violent is the original on rpa

"someone made a hyperbolic statement not meant to be taken seriously while stressed. clearly they're deranged"

just admit you too something seriously that wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

they're clearly deranged because they showed to be deranged on the rpa comment but keep fucking that chicken

"from the little clues that we have, it sounds like they threw a fit because someone asked them not to tag them"

except the little clues that we have are bee saying that the vent plurk wasn't about rp, they just threw in the stupid megan drama as part of it because they considered the response they got outside basic human courtesy or w/e the wording they used was. the finger thing was 'i had this shitty interaction [on top of everything else] and if someone else interacts shittily with me right now i'm going to have words about it'

the tantrum didn't start over rp or not being told to tag the log, it was just another part for them to fling shit about while already in a mood and venting about unrelated things that should have been handled by not being on plurk dot com in the first place

like it still shows that bee sucks ass at handling their emotions like an adult, but 'they threw a fit because someone asked them not to tag them' is removing a bit of context. they threw a fit because they can't vent anywhere more productive and made the poor decision to be unhinged about unimportant non-drama as well

Because she included the RP drama i think its fair for people to be concerned she'd do the same to others considering her life is always stress and she has half the game blocked

>the finger thing was 'i had this shitty interaction [on top of everything else]

but it wasn't a shitty interaction

someone that THEY removed/blocked in the first place just politely told them "no thanks"

like i told the other anon, it shouldn't be a "last straw" in the first place. the vent plurk wasn't ONLY about rp, but rp was there and they did rant about it. so yes, they complained about being told not to tag a log. just because it wasn't the only topic it doesn't make it any less true

it's

a turn of phrase

it's literally a way of saying "i'm so pissed i'm going to snap at the next person who pushes me"

it's a sign that they need to log the fuck off but it isn't weird

you can't be this dumb

I don't think anyone is actually worried about Bee biting actual fingers off but the point is that its an ugly response and a bad sign for anyone else who wants to assert a boundary.

it's not the idiom itself that is weird, what is weird is that "i'm so pissed i'm going to snap" was a reaction had to a boundary

you are the dumb one

imo "getting their finger bitten off" has the same effect as "getting their head bitten off" which is an idiom everyone uses all the time (you might be ESL so just explaining)

making it "finger" or "fingers" makes sense in this context because we're all typing, not speaking

it's just an idiom, not an expression of violence

+1

blows my mind that people in a hobby about reading and writing don't understand what an idiom is or how it works

(for those anons, it doesn't literally blow my mind, my skull is still intact - just in case you need the clarification spelled out for you!)

i'm an actual esl and i know lots of idioms including that one

they need a better excuse

it still doesn't make it an expression of violence

the point

you

the point isn't going over people's heads.

your point is you think that phrase was too extreme a reaction to what you think it was being used for. which given all the shit the player in question shared in their post talking about the context surrounding their situaiton, i'm surprised at their restraint, tbh.

you are desperately twisting this to be "they said they were gonna bite fingers off because of a polite dm" but that's not a true read of the situation, it's deliberate misrepresentation in order to grudgewank.

so it's not a statement of violence, it's not a threat, and it's not an overreaction. it's none of the things.

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