#sits back down and bangs on my keyboard like a chimp

[reverend-meat]

I hate fandom drama but:

*Starts fandom drama*

Just saw someone very popular in a fandom that I'm in post this big huge rant about how no one is characterizing their fave character "correctly" in fanfic? And how its clear "Nobody who writes him has played his spinoff game!"

Its like

chill out.

It's fanfiction. Literally the nerdiest fucking thing worldwide. It is so 100% such a completely unserious way to spend our time?

We are all literally grown ass adults playing makebelieve with our favorite characters. We are smashing these fictional characters around like Barbies and making them do dumb stuff for our own amusement.

ITS FINE.

ITS LITERALLY FINE.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHARACTERIZE SOMEONE "PERFECTLY".God, you don't even have to write "good" fanfiction? You can literally just write total dogshit and post it and so long as it makes you happy thats fine??

Write bad fanfiction. Write dumb takes. Mischaracterize someone for fun. Make them do dumb shit they wouldn't do in canon. Write 100k words about two characters in different timelines doing shit that is literally impossible in canon. ITS FINE. LITERALLY NO ONE AT ALL IS BEING INJURED BY YOU WRITING MAKE BELIEVE SHIT.

ITS ALL FINE.

YOU'RE NOT BEING PAID TO DO THIS WHY WOULD YOU LISTEN TO SOMEONES SOUR ASS TAKE?? Especially on something you decided to dedicate your own time and effort to and post for free?? Radical self love is the future babes.

#JUST BE NORMAL #we are all in our thirties GO DO YOUR TAXES JESUS #sits back down and bangs on my keyboard like a chimp #not to be all “don't like don't read” but #it really is true #if a story someone writes bothers you that much #simply close your eyes and read something else #you are not paid to interact with anyone else in a space #nor is there any reward for interacting with their works besides the gift of reading something someone else wrote #the privilege of seeing something someone else drew #it is a privilege to get to read the fruits of someone elses efforts #and I think we need to understand that more #and appreciate that for what it is #i am privileged to get to read the stuff my friends write/draw #its is a lovely GIFT of dedication and time that I appreciate very much #and the idea that someone could sit down and consume that and read something that took a significant amount of effort and time #and then decide that it personally offends them not bc of the content but bc of some internal metric of what is “right” about #a little guy who just literally does not exist? #just does not sit right with me