hybrids of angels and animals

hey, don't cry. fictional character in dire & perilous situations. ok?

the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

people hated my other post about this but idc it needs to be said, but in your obsession with making platonic relationships into romance there is very much a loss of the depth that actually makes the original relationship interesting. and i feel like this is in part due to the idea of a relationship hierarchy and romance being "more than just friends" framing it as something added on top of an already existing relationship making it somehow inherently deeper and more meaningful, when in actuality romantic relationships and platonic relationships are just different relationships of equal importance with no difference in depth or meaning. romantic relationships can be shallow and fleeting or deep and lifelong and so can platonic ones. neither one is more important or better than the other and they aren't interchangeable either. if you change the relationship you are inherently altering the character dynamic and this is often not a good thing

I consider myself a real hater but sometimes you really do go too far with haterism. once I had to break mutuals with someone bc they hated the entire art form of poetry and the final straw was when they started hateposting about soup. The food

this includes if other people in your fandom are making posts about appreciating a friendship or seeing characters as having a sibling dynamic or something like that. you really really don't need to be making snotty posts about how SOME people see these characters as x relationship can you believe that. you can truly just leave other interpretations out of it. you can just talk about what you enjoy, you really do not have to be mean about it, especially when being mean about it in order to validate your ship runs directly into really really shitty territory wrt amatonormativity and arophobia often. just post about your ship. literally just post about your ship, it's that easy.

I HATE MORAL OCD. well i shouldnt say hate thats a strong word. and i dont want to sound like i hate people WITH moral ocd because i dont of course. i just hate having it. but i shouldnt think that, i do like having morals, its just stressful to be thinking about them so constantly and scrutinizing every little thing i do or think. but really thats the least i could do so i should at least try, right? just because i suffer from— no, struggle with moral ocd doesn’t mean i should just stop thinking about things all together, thats not what im saying and i should make that clear, but i

when you get crazy enough about The Character you'd think the situations you imagine them in would get more elaborate and lore intensive. but no. imagining my wizard pacing around huffily being slightly peeved at a mild inconvenience. I don’t even know what the inconvenience IS. and it's giving me enough joy to power a city for a month

“wow look at that, it’s a great day to think and write and read about platonic sex” me on a day ending in y

hate the weird self-infantalizing “but i’m just playing with my dolls” shit people will pull in response to any critique of overall fandom trends, especially wrt racism, misogyny, transphobia, etc. very embarrassing to be a grown ass adult yet still so myopic and devoid of self-reflection

like in a way i do sympathize because being told that your thoughts and beliefs are more often a product of your context and not individual impulse is uncomfortable but at that point you have either the choice to put your head in the sand or take a minute to consider these things more deeply and it seems pretty clear to me which option is the more mature one

not even kidding be SO earnest. Be so honest and forthcoming about your life, your feelings in the pursuit of connection with others, and know being as earnest as possible in your experience is what quells loneliness in those who feel the same way as you do. Is what helps us feel seen. And builds community and resolve within the fact it doesn't have to feel so lonely and insurmountable. we need community and connection. You really are not as alone as you think, we're all scared. we need to hold each others hands

do me a favor and reblog this and put in the tags what time it is for you and what you're currently doing/thinking about