Another random tumblr blog

being a latecomer to a media property is so much better than being an early adopter in pretty much every way. when you're in on something on the ground floor you're just out there yelling into an empty room hello has anyone seen this does anyone know about this its really good. when you're like 20 years late to something you have an absolute buffet of engagement with the text to pick through and, more often than not, a robust wiki. there's no contest

much appreciation for people who create ocs that are clearly derivative of The Character because even if the inspiration is clear, they had the self awareness that their headcanons had snowballed so far past character analysis into pure self indulgence that there was very little of source material left. and that’s beautiful. sometimes when you’re preoccupied playing touys it’s hard to take a step back and realize you’ve actually created something wonderful and new

nothing is more embarrassing than not being able to give a character you wrote YOURSELF justice

hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out

everything that gets popular on here only gets spoken about for the yaoi but when you actually get into it it's so much more interesting than two men pining or whatever the fuck