Tenko Protection Squad

LMAO I didn’t think this many people would REALLY want to read it but here we go. Before you read, you need to know that ‘Discourse Community’ was defined for the assignment by ‘a group of people with similar interests that talk about those interests.’ so the idea of “discourse” that I actually try to avoid isn’t mentioned a lot in this essay haha.

@thatsthat24 and @thejoanglebook I blame you for this but it is a good kind of blame

The prompt from my teacher:

“For this assignment, you will write an essay to me and your fellow English 1010 classmates about a time when you successfully joined a rhetorical discourse community.”

So… here’s the essay? Reading this is so freaking weird writing it was wild guys oh my GOD

(some will be below the cut because it’s a pretty long one… lol)

The Sanders Sides Fandom, which I’ve been a part of for two years, is a group of people who all watch and enjoy the Youtube series ‘Sanders Sides’. Thomas Sanders is a Youtuber who makes the series he called ‘Sanders Sides’ where he split his (Sanders) personality into different chunks (aka ‘Sides’) to help explain himself better, acting out the different chunks as individual characters. His videos help explain psychology and mental health, as well as provide comedy and fun music. A lot of the content is contributed to by his good friend Joan, who helps write the scripts and music for the videos. I discovered the community after a reference to another fandom I was in at that time was made in a video, and I’ve been watching ever since. I only really started contributing to the community about a year ago, but it’s a welcoming place where art and thoughts are appreciated.

I soon found that most of its discourse involves the messages, and always includes the characters, who at this point include Logic, Creativity, Morality, Anxiety, Deceit, and Thomas himself. The 'Fanders’ (Fan+Sanders) discuss the most recent videos and the messages they send, as well as develop headcanons (beliefs, theories, etc.) and stories of their own based on the characters and what they represent.

(pls keep reading guys it gives me whiplash when I academically explain Centhomas and I’m the one that wrote it)

me: this is so nice and chill and peacefu-

my dog: *LOUD SNORE*

Cat: *freakin JUMPS ON TOP OF MY CHEST* MEOWWWW?!

Send asks with what you judge the person to be!

Looks like cinnamon roll, could actually kill you

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