how you like they/them apples

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

got to the part where Lawrence says he’s terrified of reptiles and Daud/Farraj are giggling by putting a snake near him and so he has to scream and call on Ali to kill the thing and them hit them for being mean

obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character

and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself