The only reason I don't make my selfships in games like the Sims and whatnot is because it always feels like I can't do my selfships justice.
Because c'mon 95% of my selfships are with non-humans/things that are roughly humanoid, and there are no options for 'fifty foot tall robot'. And even the ones that are human have insanely specific appearances that can't be recreated faithfully by a Sims human maker.
Realizing canon is yours to change and control is so empowering. You don't like the ending? Change it. You think those characters should be friends? Now they are. You don't like that characters love interest? No longer their love interest. You want to redeem the villain? Already done. You think that character should have brown eyes instead of blue and that other character should have scars? Okay. That character should've lived? They did. That character should have a backstory? Make one. Your version of canon might be different from someone else's but that's their version and this is yours.
I don't bother with a peaceful, surgical 'this is how I'd fit in without disrupting anything', all my SIs result in 'so this is how the canon story started, and they joined here, and now we're six months into the timeline and everything is TEN TIMES WORSE but they have a nice lil' boyfriend/enbyfriend/girlfriend so even as everything goes to Hell in a handbasket they can have a little comfort as the flames of disaster and destruction grow ever stronger around them'
*consumes a new piece of media* okay but how can I fit myself into canon?
I would watch the Lego Movie while eating dinner, but I know if I do I’ll spend the whole time taking almost constant screenshots so I could have an infinite supply of Emmet icons.
Either that or I’d space on eating and just be focused on Emmet being epic.
Garmadon took over my headspace in the span of three fucking days and now I can’t stop picturing him over my shoulder, grinning, in his silly-as-hell PJs just ‘relax, star~’ and I’m over here internally screaming, thank stars I’m home alone tonight b/c I am DYING.