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⟡ Gets pulled into conversations, situations, and adventures by simple proximity

⟡ Has been a witness, a participant, and occasionally the cause of memorable public events

⟡ Goes on a walk and returns with information that no one expected

⟡ Is at the center of things that cannot be planned without having planned any of them

⟡ Has a travel record that reads like fiction because something always happens

⟡ Gets the stranger's life story on every flight without asking a single question

⟡ Has accidentally started three traditions, one local legend, and a minor debate

⟡ Goes somewhere ordinary and finds out it is not ordinary on that particular day

⟡ Has been the subject of a stranger's story that the stranger is still telling

⟡ Finds money, messages, and meaningful things in places that have no business having them

⟡ Gets upgraded, redirected, and rerouted into better situations than the ones they planned

⟡ Walks into things that are already in progress and becomes a key participant immediately

⟡ Has met the same stranger twice in two different countries and has stopped being surprised

⟡ Gets put in situations that cannot be repeated because they required too many specific conditions

⟡ Is the person in the group that things happen to and everyone else gets the story

⟡ Has been told 'this never happens' by professionals in several different fields

AND IT JUST CLICKED, IT WOULD MAKE SO MUCH SENSE

In response to a popular comic that's been floating around.

Headcanons are not activism. Ships are not activism. Fandom engagement at large is not activism. Punching down on someone for relating to a character in their own way, especially by claiming the way they are relating to the character is inherently not progressive, is reductive and damaging. Believing those who disagree with you are bigots and what they bring to the conversation is wrong or irrelevant is reductive and damaging. Telling any group that their headcanons 'overpower' fandom and are 'an epidemic' is reductive and damaging.

You are ostensibly telling someone they're playing with their dolls wrong. We are well past the age to be fighting over who gets the swings at the playground or whether you should go through the monkey bars forwards or backwards. Turning exceedingly minor fandom disagreements into a moral crusade, using the opportunity to feed into existing discourse about vulnerable groups, and refusing to listen to the voices of the group you are harming by mislabeling them all under a pejorative reactionary term to de-legitimize them makes you a bad person. Be better.