Apotheosis, Evoked

modern social media should stop offering "sync with your phone contacts to follow them" options and start offering "block all your phone contacts so they never see your account" options

[no beers in] do you think im ever going to belong somewhere

my toxic writing trait is imagining the scene in my head in long, full cinematic detail and then writing: “they fought. it was intense.”

I completely get Why this happens but I quite dislike this trend that happens in fan spaces sometimes where fans hold each other to much higher standards of queer representation than they do their source material. a classic example of this is when a writer or actor or other production member gives an offhand comment in an interview about thinking a character is x identity when it's never brought up in the text or is even mildly contradicted by the text a few times, and then fans turn around and deploy that piece of interview to say This Character Is Canonically X This Is #Representation How Dare You Ever Say They're Otherwise. this particularly bugs me as an ace person in regards to ace characters because there are now actually a good handful of textually asexual characters in fandom-popular media who go the whole nine yards, they explicitly say they're asexual or don't feel sexual attraction or voluntarily don't have sex because they don't wanna, if you want a character who is unmistakably asexual you can just find one and put them in your pocket, you don't have to pretend that word of god pseudo-canon asexuality is Good Representation and try (and invariably fail) to force other fans to play along. I just think it's unfair to accuse fanworks of erasure of identities that aren't even in the source text in the first place.