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the longer i stay in fandom, the longer i think a huge amount of bad takes and discourse come from an... abundance of identifying with a character

to be clear, i don't think it's bad to identify with a character. far from it! i think that's part of what makes fiction so powerful.

and it's only logical people often attach to a blorbo because they're just like me, for real. a person will see some element of themselves-- their race, their gender, their sexuality, their hobbies, their family life, their specific flavour of neurodivergence-- and something just resonates. it gives them a way to explore and name this important part of themselves, a part they maybe didn't even know existed before it.

and everything is well and good until some split between them and the character shows up

because of course, no character, except an explicit self-insert written by yourself, will ever be a perfect 1:1 for your own experiences. so sooner or later-- maybe in canon, maybe in a fanwork-- your blorbo diverges from your lived experience in a huge way.

I think this is why shipping culture in particular gets so toxic. While it is by no means the only way to indulge with shipping, a significant portion is 'if i was in that character's shoes, i would choose X'. the fight becomes for your own self-identity.

but this gets expanded in other ways. a character who is revealed to be black when the majority of the fandom had just assumed they were white. or revealed to be queer, or maybe the 'wrong' flavour of queer. or fuck, even some more innocuous part of their backstory, one that's nonetheless so meaningful for SOMEONE, but now it feels like the story is saying, fuck you, we're doing something else

i don't know. i just feel acknowledging this perceived-attack-on-identity helps me understand why people react it what seems to be such outsized way to canon and fanworks alike.

at the same time, i think it's a really important thing to check in yourself.

it's nice, to see a character who you identify with. who resonates with for being like you. but it's also nice to acknowledge and appreciate the way characters are not like you at All. how great it is to get insight into this totally different lived experience. and to muse on how wonderful that recognition might be for someone who does have that background.

#op you are the only one who truly gets it

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"i dont go here but-" well you do now. you're coming down with me. take my hand

#yeah

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why are the smoothies at my college sO FUCKING EXPENSIVE

#max originals

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some clemont sketches + ash that i made to avoid confronting my actual work

#i’m vibrating at the speed of light can we please talk about pokémon togeyher

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i see you’ve got a clemont profile picture, could i interest you in my catalogue of clemont sketches on my art account 👁️👁️

YOU HAVE CLEMONT SKETCHES????? OH MY GOD I NEED TO SEE THEM PLEASE IM BEGGING

#the homies

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#FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST BROTHERHOOD💥💥💥

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So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.

I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).

And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:

“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”

And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them

“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”

I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before

#LMAO

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happy birthday to media <33333

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Alison Bechdel wrote this book and chose violence

#gold star #oWCH

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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

#gonna check this next time i open my laptop maybe that’s why it keeps blue screening on me

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Congratulations!

You reached the bedrock after u scrolled ur feed so deep.

#literally opened tumblr and this was the very first post who inverted my superflat world

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Actually: New ask game

If you were to meet up with the person who reblogged this without knowing what they looked like, what would be one thing that they could say to make you instantly know it was them (excluding saying who they are ofc)

#i have a feeling i’d just sense it. which is both cool and scary considering that it’s actually possible

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I ALSO FOUND A WIG. I DO NOT REMEMBER WHERE I GOT IT

packing up all my stuff and discovering i own not one but TWO sketchbooks has been quite the revelation. where did i get those