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But Elmo, after cheerfully surrendering his old toys, sees that the children who swapped toys with him are playing with his toys “wrong”! They’re imagining entirely different make believe scenarios! They’re pretending the football is a dinosaur egg instead of a rocket ship! Aaahhhhh!!!! And this is so distressing to poor Elmo that he does the unthinkable: He does swapsies-backsies and takes all his toys back!

This being Sesame Street, he learns that you can’t control how other people play pretend, but you can join in if you want to! And if you don’t want to, that’s ok, you can just play pretend your own way by yourself or with someone else who wants to play that way too. You can still be friends with people who play pretend differently than you (and aren’t being mean/harmful/etc, do not bad-faith-read this 🤨).

There's some people in the comments saying "fandoms have always been like this" and others saying "No, it's worse than it was." And both are to some extent right. Fans (or at least a small percentage of fans, and the larger a fanbase gets the larger a group this will describe) have always been Like That; but they did not always have the level of access to creators and actors that they have now.

The notion that a performer needs to be constantly available to public scrutiny, that their personal information should by default be available to any rando with google, is pretty new. It used to be that actors would only be expected to engage with the public on limited, specific, and controlled occasions, usually with security provided. Now they're being asked to rawdog exposure to the mob 24/7 on their own.

(Also, production companies have always always always been exploitative cowards, just to get that straight; reading the biographies of literally any actress from golden Hollywood years makes that clear. It's just, again, more public now.)

>recognize it as part of my divine punishment

Summer Edition...

- Walked into a tree the first time he saw his s/o in shorts.

- His partner kinda has to force him to wear sunscreen bc he doesn't like the texture. He'll do it tho at the reward of a smooch ofc. Tho he doesn't really get burnt anyway but still. Still tans quite quickly honestly.

- Worries about Tau and his partner overheating. Tau will just lay in the sun roasting and his partner is just constantly sprinting all over Kilima etc. So he keeps asking if they've drank enough water and that they should rest for a bit.

- Now while he is at least mostly sleeveless and according to him he does not get cold, he absolutely does get warm. He is wearing leather and fur. And his autistic ass is sweating his ass off during summer. His stubborn ass did not even consider switching outfits for summer until his partner went and got him something made by Jel. Took some convincing and his partner showing him their matching fit but he ends up quite appreciating the more breathable wear.

Ty to @squidamalink for pointing out that he's in several layers of leather-

- Adores picnics. Being outdoors and having meal with his beloved. The second it gets warm he's secretly (or not so secretly) so pumped. He enjoys preparing them as well but he also thinks his partner looks quite adorable holding a picnic basket they prepared.

- He uses the warm weather as an excuse to have his partner stay in his grove at night longer. If they fall asleep on his shoulder while sitting around the campfire cuddling thats just a coincidence ofc.

- Tau loves to jump into any body of water during summer and he will purposely get near Hassian or his partner to shake off and get them all wet.

- Lowkey loves roasting stuff over a fireplace. He ends up preparing a bunch of things for it with the help of his partner. He gets Auni and Ulfe to join, and even Najuma joins for a little. His s/o tells everyone ancient human campfire stories and Hassian after a bit even starts telling the kids about the stars. Sometimes Sifuu joins as well and ofc she tells her tales too.

- Likes picking a very pretty spot near the bahari bay beach to watch the sunset with his s/o during beach outings. He's very particular.

Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.

it's fucking visible

You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her