Sapphire Sapphics

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🦋Arcane: Season 1 + 2

🎪The Amazing Digital Circus

🚪The Backrooms

🗡️ - Fandoms attacking Marginalized Creators

⏰ - The chronological lore of TADC

👈 - Why We Prefer Kane’s version

➗- The Backrooms will be divisive

“You mean I have to pay attention to what their faces are expressing?”

My dude… YES… you are watching a VISUAL MEDIUM. It’s called ACTING.

When something becomes popular, fans will latch on to it. However, if that popularity isn’t satiated by new content from the creators, fans will start latching on to ANYTHING they can get their hands on. And while sometimes that’s a healthy thing, fandoms creating fan art, fan content, fan speculation, etc… if the gap between episodes is too long, they’ll start developing their own headcanons and writing what they think is going to happen and get MAD when the show inevitably comes back and doesn’t adhere to what they’ve spent months crafting in their heads.

The 3 year gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of Arcane is a great example of this. Had both seasons played out in synch, we would’ve seen the immediate impact of Jinx’s actions come to fruition. Instead this 3 year gap gave fans the opportunity to speculate about Zaun rising up and going to war with Piltover. Something that in the show gets squashed pretty quickly by episode 4.

This 3 years of fandom headcanon also muddies the waters about the intent of the show and where it’s going to go. And this happened in TADC quite a bit too. Both shows are character driven, but you’ll see that the fandom cares more about the plot and consequences of the characters more than the characters themselves. They want everything spelled out clearly and concisely, and when that doesn’t happen, they get mad and declare the writing “bad.”