realising that you actually have to put work into shaping yourself and unlearning stuff that contradicts the values you have intellectually applied to yourself/your philosophy -- kinda mind-blowing, embarrassingly enough.

So embarrassing. /o\ And then you find that there are all of these assumptions you would have known were terrible if you ever took a second to articulate and look at them, and you never did, because you thought you didn't have to.

I beam every time you mention reading or skimming a Homestuck fic, you should know.

p.s. apologies for your dual post-notifications, which it has just occurred to me you probably got.