This person is responding to Batman/Nightwing shippers specifically, which I have no opinion on, but still - the contemporary Batfamily framing is obviously driven by the Tumblr sphere and flattens a more complex and interesting relationship into strictly defined roles
Am I faking it for attention? Just not trying hard enough? Would xyz coping strategy help me? Maybe! But you are a stranger on the internet with only 240 characters of insight into my experiences, so all you can do is smugly reaffirm your biases at me. Shut up!
At a certain point you just have to believe people when they say “I fundamentally struggle with this thing for reasons outside of my control” even if you can’t empathize. “But why don’t you just” because I can’t, and it’s impossible to prove a negative, so you have to trust me.
@John_Graviton My take on the “no kill rule” framing is so vindicated, nerds totally just treat it as a powerscaling debuff instead of characterization
@John_Graviton It doesn’t mean figuratively, the meaning has just been softened from a specific description to an intensifier, like with “awesome”. It’s called semantic bleaching. Loser