#only when the basis of these headcanons are to overcompensate yk?

[boysborntodie]

So like one thing I'm afraid of is for when the musical comes out and we (hopefully) get new fans, is fanon!Johnny. Like Johnny often infantilized in fanon which is annoying as fuck and I despise it, but a trend I see with these type of characters like that is that all of the sudden the fandom will be like 'omg why is this character being to woobified' which is good, but then they'll take it to the next extreme. Like in the ST, Will Byers is the sweet and sensitive character (he's also canonically gay) but in order not to fall into the 'feminine gay' stereotype, a lot of the fandom would make him hypermasculine (emphasis on him being muscular and broad, make him more sarcastic and done with everyone's bullshit, making him over-competent) which completely changes his character. Like seriously there's got to be some nuance here. Some middle ground maybe?

#this isn't about genuine headcanons like johnny being strong or growing taller #only when the basis of these headcanons are to overcompensate yk? #like making johnny taller just to go 'omg he's tall now so now he isn't a uwu soft boy like some fans make him 🙄' #it sounds so stupid but it happens #(also personally i think it's kinda relevant to his character for johnny to be tiny like him being unable to conform to the standard of- #-masculinity that he sees in dally and wishes he could achieve and it adds to his entire 'kicked down by life and everything about him- #dooming him to fail in life' but tbh I don't really care either ways) #i know i sound so bitchy and petty here but I've seen fandoms do this and it's always so annoying #babygirl who are justifying yourself to? #the outsiders #johnny cade #se hinton #evie rambles #i was half scared to post this but whatever ig