Made ya laugh.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

~(Belated) 15 Year Anniversary ~

People are treating it more and more like it's a Big Ask to just be conscientious of what they're putting in big fandom tags--or more specifically how they're going about it. It feels like people are doing a digital equivalent of people running around public spaces with bluetooth speakers on blast, and then going, "Oh, so listening to music is illegal now?" when someone inevitably takes issue with it.

There are just ways to do these things that are more considerate of others' experience? You can use earbuds/phones (add anti-x/x-wank/x-critical/x-inspired etc. tags) and/or just wait until you're off the train (don't use the main fandom tags).

At the end of the day, everyone's entitled to engage with a story the way they want. But in terms of fandom etiquette and even just a general good personal experience, if the only way you enjoy a specific story is by removing the deuteragonist and completely rewriting every opinion/feeling/decision of the protagonist so you can reframe the entire narrative around a single side character who had a maximum of 10 minutes/lines/pages which happened to Make You Feel Things...