Karkat Vantas
@carcinoGeneticist
MY BUSINESS IS NONE OF YOUR KNUCKLEDRAGGING PANDDLES NUMBSKULLS BUSINESS. FUCK OFF.
Replying and liking chits is my life, fuck yeah engagement
IF YOU CAN'T EVEN FIGURE THAT MUCH OUT THEN YOU REALLY ARE A LOST CAUSE. FUCKING TYPICAL, OF COURSE I HAVE TO DO ALL THE WORK AROUND HERE. I TAKE IT YOU ARE PRETENDING TO ROMANCE ME IN THE RED QUADRANT, RIGHT? THEN, YOU COULD DO THINGS LIKE COMPLIMENT MY LOOKS, TAKE ME OUT ON DATES, AND *NOT* BE AN AGGRAVATING AND PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ASSHOLE WITH EACH BREATH YOU TAKE.
I wasn't wanting to come off as pretending. I'd compliment you regardless I just didn't want to assume anything or make you uncomfortable, im stupidly still new to the concepts of quadrants and I want to do it right to show you I'm serious
WAIT! HOLD ON. SO, YOU'RE NOT JUST ROLE PLAYING WITH ME? YOU'RE SERIOUSLY AND ACTIVELY TRYING TO RED FLIRT WITH ME? THAT'S AN AWFUL FUCKING IDEA, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
TYPICAL. SAY SOMETHING I'M NOT ALREADY USED TO AND EXPECTING. *STILL* FUCKING TRY ME, MAYBE WE WILL BOTH BE SURPRISED.
I think You're pitiable, if I'm getting my quadrants right Idk I just You know? Fuck uh I get nervous and shit,worried im saying the wrong things That im not effectively showing you what I mean with whatever words I stringed up almost half hazardously
MATING FONDNESS IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE TERM, BUT I CAN SEE WHERE YOU WOULD BE CONFUSED. MANY TROLLS, INCLUDING MY IDIOT PAST SELF, BELIEVED THE RED QUADRANT TO BE JUST A NUANCE OF PITY, WHICH BELONGS IN THE PALE QUADRANT. SO, I HAVE TO ASK STRIDER, WHEN YOU SAY *YOU*, DO YOU MEAN ME AS IN *ME* OR ME AS IN ANY KARKAT UNFORTUNATE `ENOUGH TO BE SHUFFLING AND SHOUTING AROUND IN THIS SHITHOLE. OR, IS IT MORE THAT YOU ALSO KNEW SOME VERSION OF ME, I FUCKED THINGS UP AS I ALWAYS DO, CAUSING YOU TO DRIFT AWAY. AND NOW, YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT VERSION OF DAVE YOU ARE, YOU'RE ALWAYS A GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT?
YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ME- YOU KNOW WHAT, NEVERMIND THAT TRACKS FOR YOU, ACTUALLY. I'M PRETTY SURE YOU COULD CATCH RED FEELS FROM A PICTURE. LOOK, DON'T WORRY ABOUT SAYING THE WRONG THING. IT'S *YOU* I'VE ALREADY COME TO THE FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT SAYING THE *RIGHT* THING IS FORTUNATE HAPPENSTANCE, SO I CAN'T HOLD IT AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU SHOVE YOUR LIMBS SO FAR INTO YOUR ORAL GAPER, YOU START DIGESTING THEM. YOU CAN JUST BE YOURSELF.
You think I care about this? Ask me if I care about this, cause I do. If I had a dollar every time I cared about this, I'd be a rich man, because I care so much.
It's easy to care about only the people who are kind to you. There is worth in the work it takes to care about those who oppose you. There are no monsters in this world, only other people. If I abandon my care for them, then I abandon them to their hatred and violence.
UGH YOU ARE SO FUCKING NAIVE. ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE ACTUALLY AN ADULT TROLL PAST HIS FINAL MOLT? I'M NOT SO SURE, WHEN YOU SAY SHIT LIKE THAT. MAYBE IT WAS YOUR PAN GOT FRIED BEYOND SAVING OF FUCKING *COURSE* THERE ARE MONSTERS IN THIS WORLD. FUCK, THERE ARE MONSTERS SPEWING THE MOST PANROT WORTHY, VOMIT INDUCING BULLFUCKERY MY POOR GANDERBULBS HAVE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO WITNESS, WHY SHOUT UNREPENTANT NOOKHUFFERS LIKE THAT DESERVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF CARE AS SOMEONE WHO'S WORST CRIME IS HAVING A SHIT TAKE ABOUT SOME MEDIA? YOU'RE NOT ABANDONING ANYONE.THE SICK *FUCKS* WHO SAY WE SHOULD ALL DIE HAVE ALREADY ABANDONED US BY THE SHEER FORCE OF THE FUCKS THEY DON'T GIVE. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE THEIR HATED AND VIOLENCE, THEY HAPPILY REVEL IN IT, AND WILL HAPPILY REVEL IN YOUR BLOOD.
I am not blind to this world and the people within it, friend. I simply refuse to be selective in my empathy. Perhaps there are those trolls who will resist when I offer my hand to them, who will hurt and revile me simply for my existence. But I will not be like them. Is it not a tragedy when a troll falls to hate? Should I not mourn that? Should I not care? If they would make themselves my enemies, I will answer them with empathy. But I do not answer them with ignorance. I begrudge them their aggressions, but I do not hate them. I simply cannot.
YES???!!! THAT IS, ACTUALLY, WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. WHY *SHOULD* YOU CARE ABOUT SOME BASTARD WHO WANTS YOU DEAD AND WILL SQUEEZE YOUR GANDERBULS SO THEY CAN USE THEIR VISCOUS FLUIDS FOR JELLY? THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU, THEY WON'T EMPATHIZE WITH YOU, THEY WILL JUST CONTINUE TO BE IGNORANT AND AGGRESSIVE BULGEMUNCHES WHO WOULD HAPPILY SEE YOU DEAD, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE ONES BEING FUCKED OVER. YOU *SHOULD* HATE THE BECAUSE THEY ARE CONDEMNING INNOCENT PEOPLE. YOU UNDERSTAND HOW FUCKED IT IS TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT WANTON MURDERERS, RIGHT? LIKE, DAMN THINK ABOUT HOW SHITTY THOSE WHO WERE HURT FEEL WHEN THEY SEE YOU EMPATHIZING, OF ALL THINGS, WITH THOSE WHO WOULD HURT THEM. THAT'S NOT KINDNESS, THAT'S JUST BEING A FUCKING COWARD.
I can condemn their actions and their hate without consigning the trolls themselves to a place beyond redemption. When we sentence a person to being beyond help and hope, we allow ourselves to see our enemies as so unlike our "side" that we fail to see how they got there in the first place. No one is born hateful. I grieve those who have gone down the path of hate, and in that way I care for them. I want them to be better, to open their hearts, because I care for them. And I want to protect those impacted by the violence because I care for them as well. I do not consider it cowardly to face hatred head on. I consider it cowardly to ignore the ways in which the system and those in power twist a person towards that hatred. I care for everyone. Not equally, perhaps, but for everyone.
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I HEAR? BLAGH BLAGH BLAGH, I'M A HUGE NOOK SHITTING COWARD WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE SHAMEGLOBES TO SINGLE OUT THE ATROCIOUS FUCKERS WHO HAVE GONE SO FAR DOWN THE PATH OF HATE, THERE IS NO COMING BACK. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY GOT THERE, THEY ARE *ALREADY THERE* THERE IS NOT A SINGLE FUCKING THING YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE THAT. SO, BY GRIEVING THESE SICK AND TWISTED FUCKS THE PATH THEY *CHOSE* TO WILLINGLY TREAD, YOU ARE CONDEMNING THOSE WHO GOT FUCKED OVER. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT THOSE IMPACTED BY VIOLENCE, THEN PROTECT THOSE WHO WERE HURT *NOT* THOSE WHO DID THE HURTING.
I fear you equate empathy with a lack of action. That I abhor violence in all its forms does not mean I lack the understanding of why it happens. I do not ignore or blind myself to the names and faces of our oppressors. I seek to understand them. We cannot overcome the injustices set before us otherwise, we cannot ensure that love prevails and hate is defeated if we ignore the nature and patterns of hate. I will protect the downtrodden, all those with weary heads and slumped shoulders, all those who have been wounded and fractured by the system we live in. I am not ignorant or blind to the realities of such resistance. But I am not a fighter. I am not a killer. I speak, and I am privileged enough to have trolls who listen. All I can do is give my perspective and attempt to guide our people to a brighter future. And no matter how we disagree, I can see that selfsame passion in you, and I wish you all the best.
WHAT FUCKING ACTION? WHERE IS THIS ACTION YOU HAVE PUT FORWARD, BECAUSE I SURE AS *FUCK* AM NOT SEEING IT. SPEAKING TO THOSE WHO LISTEN ISN'T ACTION, YOU COULD SAY THAT'S WHAT THIS GOGSAWFUL CESSPOOL OF A SITE IS DOING. NOT IGNORING OR BLINDING YOURSELF TO THE SHIT GOING DOWN IS *ALSO* NOT ACTION. IT IS, BE DEFINITION, THE OPPOSITE OF ACTION. AND, IF YOU CAN'T FIGHT FOR THOSE WHO ARE DOWNTRODDEN AND WEARY, HOW CAN YOU PROTECT THEM> HOW DO YOU PROTECT THEM? DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY FEEL SAFE WHEN THEY SEE *YOU* OF ALL TROLLS? I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO. YOUR PERSPECTIVE IS SHIT AND YOUR GUIDANCE LAME. YEAH, GO AHEAD AND FUCK OFF.PREACH TO YOUR FIGHTERS AND KILLERS. I WAS RIGHT, YOU ARE WORSE THAN KANKRI. I WOULD SAY I CAN'T BELIEVE WE SHARE THE SAME BLOOD, BUT OF COURSE EVEN MY ANCESTOR HAS TO BE THE MOST INSUFFERABLE ASSHOLE IN EXISTENCE.
I am so sorry, that I evidently could not help create a kinder world for you. I hope that you are more successful than I, if that is the case, and that the path you walk does not burden you more than it already has.
I FAILED THE FIRST TIME, EARTH A WAS A FUCKING JOKE I WISH I COULD DIVORCE MYSELF FROM, BUT EARTH C DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A TOTAL LOST CAUSE. YET.