A fairy dressed like a walrus or a walrus dressed like a fairy

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My favorite thing on Tumblr for the past week or so has been the fairy vs walrus question. More accurately, the controversy about the answers to the following question (paraphrased because I am too lazy to look up the original): There's a knock on your door. What would you be more shocked to see when you open it, a fairy or a walrus?

It is very silly and not at all serious and people have many strong opinions on it and it cheers me up. Hundreds of opinions and discussion and variations and art and memes... I wanted to link some of my favorites, I reblogged some, but there are soo many more great ones in the general fairy vs walrus tag.

Comments

[out_there]

I love all of the discussion about it and the perception of why a fairy feels more reasonable (from the "a fairy means you're in a fairytale and therefore narrative rules apply" to the "a walrus showing up means that I'm wrong about many, many things"). It's silly but very human and interesting.

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Yes! There are so many different approaches, it's very interesting. One of my recent favorites is also "if I see a fairy that means magic is real so my main reaction is relief."

[jadelennox]

obviously walrus is less surprising I don't see why this is even a question

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It only became a thing because of how many people voted "walrus"! With many different reasons; one of my favorites was "if I see a fairy I'm not shocked because I'll just assume I'm hallucinating and go to bed."

[krait]

This was my reaction, too! On the scale of surprises, "imaginary thing is real after all" ranks far above "thing is found somewhere unusual."

For a walrus to appear on my doorstep takes a neighbor with inappropriate ideas about what constitutes 'a pet,' or a transport vehicle experiencing containment failure. For a fairy to appear on my doorstep takes a complete rewriting of the laws of nature and physics as I (and my species generally) knows it.

[genarti]

You would think!

[trobadora]

This is all delightful!

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My favorite kind of online "discourse," the right amount of silly and completely inconsequential.

[geckoholic]

Tumblr really is bonkers. What a delight. XD

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I am especially delighted by all the art of a walrus with fairy wings. In the original poll the walrus won with 81% ^^

[nonesensed]

This meme was a blast when it made its rounds 😆 I love how us humans can get so invested in arguing about things and making art of things that are so random 💖

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Tumblr is an excellent place for getting invested in random things xD