today I mentioned I liked a book description I saw and my also very online nonbinary coworker who is friends with some published authors told me “too bad the author is a terrible racist person who started a harassment campaign against one of my author friends about a book the they wrote”… my coworker had a whole list of things this person had said and done and I think I just experienced what my irls must experience when they try to talk to me about the homestuck fandom
they were clearly upset that they had to explain this, not in a way where they were upset with me just like tired of the whole thing and tired of people not knowing what this person had done and I was just thinking to myself “I know this specific emotion you’re showing so exactly, and I’m so sorry my offhand comment triggered these feelings in you”