Repping a particular niche in a fandom is a weird experience. Yes, I'm here and yes I'm part of things but the majority creates mainly for the popular fandom darling who I like but who doesn't live within my brain in any substantial capacity, which naturally distances me from most of my fandom peers and most common fandom-specific tropes. I'm running a roadside stand outside of the main discourse peddling my favorite side characters like they're the main ones. I am a scholar with only one school of literary criticism at my disposal and it's the one I made up. I am going to analyze and reinterpret this work of fiction from an angle exclusively focused on characters and a relationship no one else, least of all the original narrative itself, cares about. Who even knows what I'm talking about anymore, I've got 300 AUs about them. I'm sitting in a sandbox with my action figures. Enlightenment is often confused with madness











