goth flavored hopecore

which is as respectable a hobby as any other way to approach fandom, or at least a nearly inevitable response to the horror of having the CW's Supernatural forcibly rewire your neural pathways, but the wank is neverending because these mutually incompatible readings keep bumping elbows with each other and somebody always eventually decides to make the very existence of some other reading Their Business. and this isn't even a wholly negative thing--the outside reaction is an important check on the tendency for each niche to spiral off into whackadoodle echo-chamber land--but every time people start getting into serious fights about it or trying to frame their reading as morally obligatory it always comes back to. like. we are all getting very different things out of this fuckass show, and the existence of people who don't have a lot of overlap with you on what speaks to them is Basically Fine. maybe try to stick closer to the shared facts of Specific Things That Happened Onscreen if you're trying to engage with them and remember that long chains of implications are an inference that you have to make a case for (and that they may or may not choose to partake in). this doesn't mean you're making shit up but it does mean your take isn't mandatory for anyone with a shred of media literacy.

People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.

If you try to drive 30+ people out of fandom, you're going to lose the backbone of said fandom!

Don’t give up what you love just because you’re an adult. You don’t have to. And don’t try to force others to do it either.

ivan, who might as well be my oc at this point

-the concept of working my whole life

People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.

lets take a moment to think about this one critically