#only sometimes it irks me when ppl are like 'this is the only one true presentation and if you don't subscribe to it youre problematic'

[lineffability]

"people shouldn't draw or write crowle-" sounds like a skill issue I love male Crowley I love female Crowley I love femme Crowley I love trans Crowley I love genderqueer genderfuckery genderfluid Crowley I love nonbinary Crowley I love Crowley spindly thin with broad shoulders I love Crowley with curves I love Crowley in a dress I love Crowley in a suit I love crowley with big bazoonga boobs or tiny boobs or no boobs I love Crowley with perky tits and a dick i love crowley with a vagina I love Crowley with a penis i love crowley with a tdick I love Crowley with a boy pussy I love Crowley with snesises I love Crowley with barbie-smooth nothingness I love lesbian Crowley I love gay Crowley I love virgin Crowley I love experienced Crowley I love asexual Crowley I love sexual flirty Crowley I love awkward blushing Crowley I love long haired Crowley I love Crowley with a shorn head I love Crowley with any hairdo at all bc they're all HOT I love Crowley with earrings or black fingernails or pointy teeth or horns or none of these I love Crowley with a snake tattoo on his cheek chest arm or ass I love Crowley no matter in which incarnation at all as long as the hair is FIERY RED but actually I also love blackhaired book crowley idgaf just go wild it's what Crowley would want

#good omens #crowley #my omens #wheee i feel out of breath after typing this #i didn't see any particular post or anything i simply love crowley and crowley versatility #everyone has their favs ofc and is entitled to their preferences!! lovely!! #only sometimes it irks me when ppl are like 'this is the only one true presentation and if you don't subscribe to it youre problematic' #in general #no shade only love #maybe somone identifies with trana crowley and someone else identifies with gay man criwley and yknow what theyre both right #everyone is right #embrace paradox #opposing headcanons can coexist so peacefully and isn't that GREAT

[aclosetfan]

the pet peeve/pettiest opinion i have abt this fandom is how sometimes ppl portray the blues w/o any substance and/or any sort of depth like they do the greens and reds🤝

I don’t even think this is petty, it’s just true 🤷‍♀️ it seriously irks me to no end. I’m so glad you brought this up!!! lmaooo short response is I 100% agree with you.  unfortunately, I agree with you so much I wrote a whole freaking essay, which can be found under the cut. I could rant about this all day long. I don’t even care. The blues are such a disappointing couple :( I wish fic writers would cut out the cutesy pure bs that you find so often with these two.

I really think that the biggest problem with the blues (and Boomer) is all rooted in Bubbles’ characterization. I think she’s the most difficult for people to write because she’s the least “problematic.” And a lot of people don’t know what to do with her because no one can relate to unproblematic. She’s written as (excuse the annoying early 2010s expression, but it fits) the perfect cinnamon bun and there’s no conflict if a character doesn’t have some kind of internal conflict, they’re boring! They get tossed to the side!! Blossom is often written struggling with leadership and perfectionism. Buttercup is often written struggling with impulsiveness and aggression. People relate to them because they’ve “gone through things” most people have experienced themselves. Fic writers like writing Bloss and BC for the same reason because you can only write what you know! But shoot, writers still got to place Bubbles in somehow! So she’s either an airhead, or a crybaby, or too innocent/naïve, or the uwu character, which is good for a few laughs but 🤷‍♀️ it gets pretty 2D and old real quick. Her biggest issue in the show was people babying her, but usually, that conflict is written off in fics with one simple “OH so she’s actually a badass” scene and that’s like it?? It’s never visited again?? (Even though all her solo episodes focus on her accepting who she is despite what others think so idk if badass scenes actually do her justice. She’s a lover not a fighter at the end of the day tbh.) It’s understandable though. I struggle with Bubbles because I’m not as optimistic as her character, and I certainly don’t relate to being “the joy and laughter.” It’s hard writing someone whose fanon character is interpreted as practically flawless. In ppg fics you’re also juggling a big group of characters, so it’s advantageous to rely on the simpler archetype tropes. So, I think it’s easier for people to set Bubbles up in a relationship than explore her more thoroughly since she’s the sensitive one who would be into the lovey-dovey stuff. Further, if you want to give readers a break from the heavier themes of your main plot, having a cute side pairing is a good safe escape. Not a lot of thought is needed to make those relationships work. And since Boomer’s just there and also underdeveloped, they get paired together. And because people (rightly) want to stray from the predator/prey trope because Bubbles is just so Pure(tm) and the trope feels assault-y, writers make Boomer inherently good. But now you’re just stuck with two good, cute characters. That’s it. And because their plot in the story revolves around their romantic relationship, it's their relationship that is the only thing that aids in their character development. The blues make up the lighthearted B-plot (but probably more like C-plot because the greens are usually B-plot material) The blues seem to follow two tropes: 1. Pure childhood crushes—Boomer was always good and wants to do good by Bubbles and she wants to “protect” him from his “mean” brothers 2. Bubbles “fixes” Boomer, but he really doesn’t need any fixing in the first place because he was good all along, he just needed encouragement. (Weird side note, have you noticed how Bubbles is always like “Boomie you’re NOT stupid” and then all the sudden it’s like the boy has a PhD) And I'm not faulting anyone for having a b-plot relationship with the blues. If it’s done right, being in a relationship does wonders for people! But relationships are work and without the blues having their personalities developed OUTSIDE the relationship, there’s no “work” to be done. They’re just the Perfect Couple and it’s boring. Don’t get me wrong, I like the pairing (it’s v cute), but what’s nice about the greens and the reds is that each individual character has usually been personalized (Butch not so much, in my opinion, his character generally revolves around BC, but bear with me for argument's sake), which makes their relationships with other characters fun to read. The greens and the reds are flushed out because their most basic archetypes are the most relatable and easiest to write. The Blues, though, just seem to get together. Bubbles is a hard character to write, so by default, so is Boomer. They have no conflict outside each other that would trigger character development. They flirt, sometimes Bubbles resists, then they’re together. She’s the cutest thing ever and he’s a simp for it. Easy, fluffy, they fade to the background because now that they’re together what happens to them next?? Irl people either get married or they break up. Most of these fics are high school AUs, so they can’t get married, and no one wants the cute ones to break up, so they just start to enter and exit the story as convenient segues. And that’s disappointing because individually they could be so interesting. Bubbles has to struggle with the fact that people infantize her. Her ideas are often dismissed, people treat her like a ditz, and her ability to be a hero is often called into question because she’s the one who seeks peaceful alternatives, and when she DOESNT seek those alternatives, people in the show freak out and become scared. Like I said before, most bubbles centric episodes focus on her accepting her sensitive side and using it to overcome a conflict. Also, HIM’s like her main villain in all her episodes. and, shit, one of her nicknames is literally Chubbles. She’s been called fat a few times. There’s so much a writer can do with her conflict-wise. Optimism and sensitivity don’t equal naivety, we don’t have to make her Pure. In fact, it’d be way more fun to see her trying to show everyone that she’s no longer a child but a young woman. And Boomer has like 3 episodes, right? Maybe 4? Literally in all of them, he’s a bratty little boy. He carries slugs in his pockets. He’s bad at trash talking. Easily distracted. Fights with his brothers. Dumb and chaotic. Good at spitting. He doesn’t put Bubbles on a pedestal. He wants to beat her up. He’s not a good guy. Bubbles thinks he’s cute. That’s literally all we know about him lmao. He wouldn’t be soft so why would what we know translate into a boring unproblematic underdeveloped boy?? You can write him unfulfilled. You could write him stuck in his brothers’ shadows. You could write him as a weirdo who’s obsessed with bugs (to match bubbles animal obsession). In my head, if Brick’s the smart one and Butch is the strong one, I make Boomer the charming one. And charming boys are dangerous boys 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️he probably had to charm his way out of plenty of dumb situations. I also make him unluckily lucky since he gets captured by the girls in one episode, but he still makes it out just fine. Everything bad that could happen happens to him but Boomer’s like “eh 🤷‍♀️ It’ll blow over. Lol already died once. What can ya do?” So you've got a girl who is never taken seriously and a boy who takes nothing seriously and yall really think their relationship would be unproblematic??? Individually, these two characters could be fun to write if the fic author plans it out correctly! Idk why their relationship wouldn't be either. If you want a compelling romance, you’ve got to make compelling characters. 

#tell me your pet peeves and you'll get a thesis paper! #lmao im so sorry #ive just got a lot of feelings about the blues #ppg blues

[watayaaratamblr]

I read a past ask in your blog and thought of sending this too. I used to love and gush about Taichi so much but that changed over time because most fans can't seem to take constructive criticisms against his character like a good sport. Sure, Taichi is a great creation of Suetsugu, but he has a fair share of flaws too. It went downhill for me after his confession. It's hard because I like Taichi and I want to talk about his flaws without getting eyerolls or defensive flames from fellow Taichi fans mistaking me as an anti. How uncomfortable it is to share a completely honest constructive opinion only to receive heavy backlash from ppl I'm supposed to share the same interest with. I expected more from them but sigh, that's the toxic side of fandom for you.

I still love him. But now, not as much as I love Arata. The way some Taichi fans put him on a pedestal like an indefeasible god and the way they keep on commenting "Omg no Taichi :(" in every chapter that doesn't have him (because duh the focus of the arc isn't Taichi ffs) irk me so. From my experience, Arata fans are calmer and more openminded. Now I mainly interact with Arata fans and lurk in Arata fandom spaces and my experience has never been healthier. Truly, Arata fandom >>> Taichi fandom. Thank you for this blog! It's a breath of fresh air.

Thank you very much for this ask, for sharing your feelings and for selecting us to share them with I am really really happy ❤( *´艸｀)❤

I'm so glad to know that we are one of the parts of this fandom where fans can feel safe and enjoy the wonderful story of Chihayafuru ❤

And I understand your feelings perfectly, I myself have loved some characters in the past which when I approached their fan-bases I discovered that I was an "anti" according to their definition I was very dumbfounded. (Sakura Haruno is my most recent one (;o;))

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You know, someone else told me a very similar story to yours, he called himself over the net: "Mashima Taichi" because he feels a striking resemblance with this character.

Now that I mention him, I'm a member in a Facebook group for Arata fans, if anyone wants to join, they'll get this question: "If you are a Taichi fan, and for a safer place for everyone, please know that we love Arata most here so we might be less sympathetic towards Taichi and most might ship Chiharata, ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?" (or something similar)

I asked the guy I mentioned above who became an admin there (& who is also helping me sometimes with this tumblr account) and he told me that he added this question because he understands the intensity of Taichi fans's obsession, that he was initially his fan but like you described, not in the way of so many others. still, as he tried to share his thoughts with them he discovered that they can't hear what he has to say because they love Taichi "above reason" so it's safer for a non-Taichi-fan to discuss Chihayafuru (mainly Taichi) with only those who can understand why some fans have less sympathy with this character than them and also who CAN tolerate Arata & Chiharata because apparently it's what triggers most of the aggressive fans.

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I think it's true, we get blinded with our love sometimes haha and we are inclined to feel defensive for the simplest of reasons.

My close friend is a Taichi fan, I like to tease her sometimes but I also like to tell her the positive news about Taichi before anyone else.

I'm not a very fan of Taichi tbh, but I think, we can have a wonderful experience with Chihayafuru by focusing on the right people and the right things, I for one feel really happy when I see my close friend fangirling all over the place because of Taichi... She seems happy, our moments become light and fun, it's because of Taichi and it makes me also happy.

I wish the whole fandom becomes like this too...

Speaking of which, I want you to find people who love Taichi as much as you do and have as much fun as you can so I want to recommend an account here (@formashimataichi), I admire the person who runs this account, I feel like they have a very big heart & a large mind; I want to talk to them sometimes but like?... Do I feel shy? (i'm stuuuupid!)

so at least, I hope you can find a precious place to exchange your thoughts about Taichi there,

and of course, we are here for you too (We might be boring though because I sometimes feel like I am an Arata-Baka (●≧艸≦) and I feel so ignorant when I meet someone else who pays more attention than me to other things in Chihayafuru lol)

so let's be positive & always share what we love and enrich this unpopular fandom with our fluffy feelings at least ^^

And let's be friends (Ɔ ˘⌣˘)˘⌣˘ C)

#I feel really happy #thank you anon #you made my day #beautiful fans #chihayafuru #chihayafuru deserves beautiful fans #Suetsugu sensei deserves beautiful fans too #wataya arata #I want to tag Mashima Taichi too but I don't want this to be read by the wrong fans

[savagc]

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sleep position - luna is a stomach sleeper. she can not fall asleep any other way and she can not easily stay asleep any other way. when with a partner she tends to find her niche right alongside their ribs, whether they sleep on their back or stomach, so that she does not disturb them with her presence, just so that she could press her face to their ribs underneath their arm and still feel close.

fear of having children - and because of this fear, often abstinent.- luna has never been accepting of her own blood, for many reasons she dislikes her blood even though in time she came to peace with herself and embraced her blood, with herself. when it comes to others seeing her for her blood she is always more abrasive and on edge expecting to be sought for it and made to return to polis, though it wouldn’t be without a fight that she would win. she is very unsettled about the idea of bearing children herself, for the fear of passing her dominant blood on to her children. though luna yearns for a world where what she believes is true, that her blood is not a curse or a burden, or worshiped, she fears it’s not that simple. it shows her lack of confidence and lack of trust and faith in the world around her. on the rig luna was mother to many orphaned children, in a place she created that was peaceful and safe, and yet she had no children of her own. luna holds herself to a nearly abstinent standard, though sometimes lapses in her own self control and engages in sexual relationships…the idea of bringing children of her own into the world does scare her which speaks volumes to a few things…a world that luna will never regard as safe and a blood that she feels is a curse. for someone who took in and embraced the ‘stains’ of other clans, those cast out with mutations, luna believes very much so that she herself is the stain for the blood that runs through her veins and would prefer the the natblida bloodlines to end. which honestly…makes me said because luna was the perfect mother and protector to her clan and she deserved more than to think so lowly of herself at the root of it all.

lessons taught - luna teaches trig and english both to the children on the rig. she does not embrace prejudices about any other clan, as her clan of floukru is a mixture of people from all clans. horror stories, war stories, even the good out in the world outside of the rig, are taught fairly as a collective to all clans, more so…humanity’s flaws and downfalls but also the hope that remains in the world for all people. she never keeps people on the rig, she never keeps the children on the rig from growing and making their own choice to venture out into the world and explore it. for this reason luna teaches awareness and in doing that…she is teaching self-defense. both english and trig are taught to the children so that if they choose one day to leave the rig they are able to communicate to the fullest of their abilities no matter the situation they may find themselves in. and they are always welcomed home should they choose to return.

ice nation is a NATION - in my headcanons luna is aware of the facade that is floukru being part of the coalition, the facade of there being 12 armies at the commanders back when there are in fact only 10, as she knows azgeda is just as much a facade in the coalition. luna respects azgeda as their own nation just as she leads the clan of floukru as a nation all it’s own. she does have an ambassador in polis to humor this facade in exchange for her clan being left alone to peace bc lets be real…challenging luna is not what lexa wants, and luna will always want the safety of her clan and solitude over wars compromising her home.

i get kinda irked when i see ppl bashing floukru like it was a clan at the mercy of lexa and the coalition when in fact the clan of floukru would have been very vital to trade when they reside with their rigging systems on largest source of fresh protein in the world. fish they can pull from the ocean by the thousands would feed many clans. not to mention i have headcanon that along with the sustenance they can provide through trading fish, floukru has also managed engineering to conduct energy with water and likely even oil in large amounts because of water-energy conducted pumping. this means plumbing is very plausible, heated running water, and oil by barrels. luna’s favorite thing to trade is fish and oil to azgeda for glacial ice and so azgeda and floukru are pals and far more chill with one another than floukru is with any other clan.

#you get a rant of basically things raven already knows bc raven knows like everything about her so like? have this #reivcn

[identitycris1s]

im back

hi just thought id pop in with a status update! maybe i’ll break this down into categories. feel like im doing an email update (ew!) but this rly is probs the best way to structure this post...

work / school (?)

work has been....aite. idk what to say. idk if i have unrealistic expectations of what work is supposed to be, but the idealist in me thinks its wrong to not even try and find something that seems meaningful / is deeply fulfilling. i think im mature enough to get that work isnt supposed to be fun / exciting every single day but bro this daily grind / sense of dread / utter disinterest / feeling of futility / frustration / disenchantment surely isnt the correct state of affairs.....at least let me try and find something that is a better fit, thats more stimulating, that feels more NATURAL to me? i just dont think im cut out to be a lawyer. sure i sometimes like arguing and making my point and i like that everyone i work with is smart and interesting and generally kind and reasonable and i like the prestige of the job and feeling like ppl respect me and i like the decent pay and the humane hours but.....i feel unmotivated to be a good lawyer. i think i find it difficult / disingenuous to always 100% get behind my client and advocate for their best interests. i tend to see things from a zoomed out perspective, like WHY are we fighting, WHY cant we just settle, WHY are the claimants pursuing this absolutely crap and unmeritorious claim and WHY do we have to defend it when its stupid and bound to fail (cos access2justice i guess but still, WHY), WHY cant we just hash things out in a meeting instead of sending emails here and there and wasting time, WHY do we have to answer stupid questions, WHY WHY WHY

and i think public policy is sort of an answer to that....i think theres more questioning of why we do things and why a policy will or will not work, in a macro sense - what is good for society at large. whereas in law (at least in litigation) its how can we just move this case forward and help the client, which is often not the most productive thing to do in a macro sense - very much a zero sum game. i get that shitty / unmeritorious claims still need to be defended against and someone has to do it and I GET IT but i just dont think i want to be that person defending these claims...or bringing them for that matter.....ultimately i cant fully / sincerely separate the overarching sense of futility from the duty to do a good job.

sigh. well at least ive kind of figured out this isnt for me. which is scary cos being a lawyer in this firm is pretty much a career for life - truly an iron rice bowl, i could probably make partner in maybe 4 or 5 years and live a comfortable upper middle class life...but i cant bring myself to do that. i cant bring myself to not give myself a shot at doing something i actually find interesting, stimulating and that i care about deeply. call me crazy! we’ll see where this brings me in 5 years’ time....:) 

anyway most ppl at work (at least in my team) know that im most likely gonna leave soon. i rly only told 2 ppl (my boss cos he had to sign off on my testimonial and G cos she was quitting anyway)...but somehow ppl found out one way or another. i dont rly mind and ppl have been taking it pretty well and have been kind and encouraging (i guess why would they not take it well, im hardly indispensable) but i get a bit antsy thinking - what if i dont get in...then what? do i just put my head down and continue here (BUT IM SO SAD) or do i just quit without any prospects and try to find a policy-ish job??

idk. will have faith that God will put me where I need to be. he is in control of it all and I BELIEVE THIS !!! I am just a bit scared that his plan is different from what i  think i want....but this is just my human instinct and i know in my head that there is no reason to be scared cos his plan is always the better one. head knowledge just needs to translate to heart understanding and real trust / faith.

ermmm relationships...???

i started using...cmb...idk why i find this so cringey. i guess about a year ago i couldnt imagine doing this and i kept thinking EW what if ppl i know see me and they think im a desperate saddo who cant find a bf irl and has to resort to an app EW shes so lame and ugly and gross. and i realised that is so stupid no one actually thinks that way and its very backward and dumb and insecure of me to be thinking that. and anyway as i get older i rly dont quite give a shit what ppl think of me (at least i tell myself that....)

i suppose i was also inspired by csm who has been quite actively using apps and meeting ppl and taking real..strides..(LOL) in her dating life. i used to tell myself hey God will provide u with a mans if he wants u to be with a mans. but also God can use an app to do that...and if i dont step out in faith that he will do something and i dont take any action at all, how is God gonna work?? should i sit at home and expect a man to fall into my lap??

for some ppl it has been way easier, e.g. my parents meeting in uni and falling i love. i always wanted that - the organic relationship, the meet-cute, the friends to lovers thing. (i guess i tried that last one before and it didnt work...) but i think theres no point in romanticising relationships anymore. thats a very modern thing to do and its not necessarily a good thing? like who’s to say a relationship that had organic beginnings is intrinsically better than one that started from an app?

anyway i havent had much luck haha i think its hard to find genuine GCBs (or maybe theyre just not attracted to me....) although recently ive been talking to this one guy B for a week or two and its been...ok i guess. hes rly nice and seemed cool at first - we talked about travelling and hamilton and the office, which was a good start. he is thoughtful and kind and doesnt seem to be put off by my very slow replies (he replies so fast......its stressful a bit) and he does the whole good morning text thing (which i frankly find a bit bizarre, we barely know each other..?? and ive never even met him irl.. but its sweet i guess :))

but DUDE his english seems to be not great - at least thats the impression i get from texting him. which is an issue for me. i dont want it to be BUT IT IS...first red flag was when he said some weird thing about not wanting to wear a mask at work (not a literal mask - like he didnt know if he could be his ‘true self’) and the wording was very strange. then he said “the weekends are almost here” ?? the weekend is not a plural though? then he used the wrong tense a few times and his apostrophe usage was wrong (”Gods’ love” - bro there is one God). he also uses way too many commas which irks me.

i mean i get that text is supposed to be an informal medium - come on look at this post, there r hardly any capital letters and plenty of short forms and hardly any apostrophes but u see its CONSISTENT and its obviously cos of laziness / convenience - but i think his problem is a bit different...u can sort of tell if someone doesnt have a 100% strong grasp of english. those r basic grammar mistakes man...i get that i sound petty and stupid and this isnt a huge deal but i feel like im settling by even talking to him cos this is not something i wld normally tolerate but hey maybe im getting desperate with age :(:(:( urgh 

on the other hand maybe i just need to be more generous with ppl and l have an irrationally high standard for english cos i am a lawyer and my friends all speak well / text well?? maybe im just being too nitpicky?? honestly hes very nice  and communicative and straightforward and seems mature and very God-fearing and idk why hes still talking to me cos ive been a bit cold and slow to respond. hes very patient which i dont rly deserve.....i myself have a million flaws that are probably way worse and egregious (ahem PRIDE...ahem ego....ie the source of this dilemma in the first place...) so maybe i should just close one eye abt the bad grammar.

i also realised how fked up i am - confirmed my suspicion that i am naturally attracted to emotionally unavailable ppl / ppl that just seem distant / out of reach (thats my avoidant attachment style right there). i think there was one day he didnt text me at all and omg...i couldnt stop thinking what i did wrong...like did i piss him off by being too cold for too long...did he get scared off cos i said i wanted to do a masters (idk this seemed like an irrational leap but i was being irrational)..then i started being nicer to him and replied more promptly hahaha turns out he was just rly bz at work that day. omg this pattern is real i think i did this with xj also - was eager to speak when he was in japan but after meeting irll i was just over it... (i am drawn to distance like a moth to a flame and i am repelled by availability like....a fire by a fire extinguisher (??)). yucks i rly hate myself sometimes but yknow what at least im self aware and im trying to fix this...kind of.. gonna hash this avoidant thing out with my therapist at the next sesh.

on the topic of xj i got a bit nostalgic and wondered why we stopped speaking (surprise surprise it was my fault, didnt reply then felt it had been left to long to pick it up again...) went back to look at our texts and aw we rly got along so well, i do miss him as a friend and im sorry about how poorly i treated him especially in dec 2018 / jan 2019 sigh.....i was a real bitch....

anyway im just gonna see how things go with B... if he asks me out i prob will go... just to give it a shot. update if / when that happens!

EDIT - he asked me out lol we shall see how it goes. 

[tonyglowheart]

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I personally found it funny b/c there is a bunch of stuff nowadays (not just Ham, but Ham actually has coherent reasons) where actual historical events and people are portrayed in fictionalized dramatizations

and it irks me that people seem to regard history like fiction, and historical figures as characters

and like it’s hard enough to establish the truth regarding so stuff, and for so long the waters have been muddied by fiction, but we’re now in the age of the internet and people go sooooo much farther

This is so very true, there’s SO much these days. like two programs they were talking about on NPR in just the last two days was The Crown, and some other one about the murder of Versace or something? It’s becoming a Trend

And yeah I mean, going back to Ham, there are definitely aspects of it that I agree with critics about that are kind of :/ but without getting too much into this again, I think the Founding Fathers are kind of inescapably part of the pantheon of American civil religion, like the whole Washington cherry tree thing, etc.

There’s definitely a lot of interesting analysis there, and I think it might even overlap with what ppl talk about this being a “post truth” society (which....I guess I’m kind of :/ about as a concept, but then I’m also kind of like “..yeah I see what you mean..”), there’s difficult interceptions there between “well what is within the historical archive” and “how do you manage the repertoire,” especially when people might be forming opinions without really looking into a topic, and not only that but voicing them now, and those reactions being very public due to the nature of social media platforms, and it snowballing from there. But I also think it IS important to not just nit-pick about the archive (which honestly needs to be curated too, so sometimes what people see in an archive still isn’t necessarily “representative,” and this gets very philosophical into “what is the nature of truth” - is there some sort of objective basis, and does it matter if that’s not what people believe? Is a “fact” true anymore if no one believes in it. I mean of course that gets very high-level philosophy where you’re arguing hypotheticals as if they’re detached from any sort of real-life context. But I mean I also think that’s partly because when you DO start trying to take in the context, everything gets much messier and harder to figure out.)

I mean I think the other thing is everything just seems really weird and surreal right now. What even is reality anymore, everything seems so unmoored. Somehow we tripped and fell into an alternate dimensions where the basic rules of the universe are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what we’ve come to expect from the world. I guess people are also projecting that surreality into the media we’re creating and consuming - everything is fake anyways might as well root it in “reality” so it has SOME tether 

caveat: all of the above is pure wild speculation on my part and lowkey me just running my mouth

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