(fallen london stamps by someone please give me a gold star for catching myself before I got rude and snippy with a random person on the internet
the context here was:
webcomic: discussing this race of nigh-invulnerable people
commenters: "huh, I wonder what the exact limits of that invulnerability are. like, could they survive being hit with a truck? being shot with a giant gun?"
Random Person On The Internet: "wtf guys, that's messed up. I'm not saying y'all want to actually murder people, but also, this is the kind of thinking that led to humans genociding the other races in-universe"
me, who is old enough to remember the "video games make kids violent" moral panic: DEEP INHALES
anyway, I DID spend way too much time typing a reply instead of just walking away like I should have, but instead of my initial very snippy "hey, speaking as a queer/trans/PoC person who's good friends with goths, can you please Not insinuate that morbid curiosity about fiction leads to literal genocide" I wrote up something that (I hope) was very patient by comparison.
it got put in the moderation queue anyway lol so who knows if it'll see the light of day, but whatever. even if it doesn't, I have successfully Exorcised the ghost of Someone Is Wrong On The Internet from my brain in a way that I probably won't regret later
