Dance of the masked fools
4/1/25 04:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alasanonI am highly susceptible to feeling obscurely guilty for enjoying things that others viscerally hate. Not in a religious way, but in a “oops, my bad” kind of, “sorry for offending you with my choices” sort of way.
I mean, if they phrase it in such a way that implies that they not only dislike said thing, but think that no one else should like it either. Mind you, I don’t stop liking that thing. I don’t feel that particular type of guilt at all.
But I do like to at least make a stab at fitting in, and if a whole group of people dislikes a thing that I like and is vocal about it, there’s a pretty solid chance that I’ll pick something else, probably something weird that no one has strong opinions about, and label that my favorite thing, or make that the thing I talk about when they start spewing hate instead of making any attempt to defend or change their minds. I don’t typically care enough about my own subjective opinions to push them on other people or talk about them in places they could be interpreted strangely.
I do have a propensity for being fond of side characters and oddballs anyway, so it’s really exploiting that as a way to silently avoid mentioning the thing they hate.
I mean, if they phrase it in such a way that implies that they not only dislike said thing, but think that no one else should like it either. Mind you, I don’t stop liking that thing. I don’t feel that particular type of guilt at all.
But I do like to at least make a stab at fitting in, and if a whole group of people dislikes a thing that I like and is vocal about it, there’s a pretty solid chance that I’ll pick something else, probably something weird that no one has strong opinions about, and label that my favorite thing, or make that the thing I talk about when they start spewing hate instead of making any attempt to defend or change their minds. I don’t typically care enough about my own subjective opinions to push them on other people or talk about them in places they could be interpreted strangely.
I do have a propensity for being fond of side characters and oddballs anyway, so it’s really exploiting that as a way to silently avoid mentioning the thing they hate.
