I Don’t Know Who You Are But I’m Gonna Show Y’all All The Thanks I Can

One thing about fandom culture is that it sort of trains you to interact with and analyze media in a very specific way. Not a BAD way, just a SPECIFIC way.

And the kind of media that attracts fandoms lends itself well (normally) to those kinds of analysis. Mainly, you're supposed to LIKE and AGREE with the main characters. Themes are built around agreeing with the protagonists and condemning the antagonists, and taking the protagonists at their word.

Which is fine if you're looking at, like, 99% of popular anime and YA fiction and Marvel movies.

But it can completely fall apart with certain kinds of media. If someone who has only ever analyzed media this way is all of a sudden handed Lolita or 1984 or Gatsby, which deal in shitty unreliable narrators; or even books like Beloved or Catcher in the Rye (VERY different books) that have narrators dealing with and reacting to challenging situations- well... that's how you get some hilariously bad literary analysis.

I dont know what my point here is, really, except...like...I find it very funny when people are like "ugh. I hate Gatsby and Catcher because all the characters are shitty" which like....isnt....the point. Lololol you arent supposed to kin Gatsby.

Me: god I wish I didn’t have boobs

Them: oh, are you trans?

Me: No I just really fucking hate having boobs

Hi yeah sorry professor but for the foreseeable future I will be fucked up and will not be able to hand in the next few assignments. Uh huh. Uh huh. Yes because of a children’s show. Yeah. Uh-huh. Ok great thanks for ur understanding byeeeee

I think in large part that’s why I love creating and seeing new stories, because the power of characters and fiction as a whole is that it helps you make sense of yourself and the world.

This character is who I was back then, but more. This character is still learning to love themselves and puts others first way too often, this character is scared shitless and just wants to be happy, this character is the embodiment of how much my negative coping mechanisms can and have destroyed me, and this character is someone who really just needs a hug.

To me at least it’s about taking out all the little pieces of yourself and making them their own person, someone you can see and want to help, and then giving them the hug and the friends they need to heal and as a result, maybe heal yourself too.

I like to include bits of myself in a lot of characters, like, this one also thinks purple is the best color (because it is!), this one can't handle anything remotely spicy, this one hates an adrenaline rush, this one loves plums, etc.

But then there's always one character in the lot where I'm like, "sorry buddy, you're getting the brunt of my worst flaws this time" and it's awful but fantastic because I get to process and idealize those flaws without just staring at myself.

Anyway I think writing yourself into your characters is normal and healthy, even. Thanks for coming to my Sleepy Talk.

Chapter 15 is up! Good Luck!

I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

Whump Prompt for y’all

So, y’all know about wood burning kits right?

These little tool things that are literally red hot at the ends that people use to burn cool patterns into wood?

Been seeing a lot of ads for them recently, which is sad because I know I will never have the time or the money to try it.

But then I had a thought… an awful terrible whumpy idea I thought I might share with you.

Y’all know the whole brutal serial killer shebang, ‘making art’ on our poor hapless Whumpee, y’all have heard about branding, but have you considered ‘torture through drawing pretty patterns or words with iron wood burning tools’?

Idk may write this at some point, but boy would I pay good money for some quality whump and hurt/comfort featuring this concept and the horrible but calculated scars that could result.

Still cannot believe this is real O_o

Guys ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Just saw the trailer and official release date for season 3!

Have some badly photographed fanart of the best girls (plus Sasha w/short hair because I’m a sucker for that hc)

May as well

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