a few things, maybe several things

Drinking a whole bottle of white wine or rosè in one sitting means you’re a fun and flirty young woman. Drinking a whole bottle of red wine in one sitting means you’re severely mentally ill.

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

everything you see on tumblr is biased towards the perspectives of the types of people who post a lot on tumblr. this is essential to remember

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg