midgirl, Midgar, midboss

there's only 7 words on the painting and you managed to misspell the two largest ones

headcanon / springboard / playing with dolls / sandbox style fan activity is just a different type of thing to analytical / interpretive / close reading style fan activity. they certainly aren't mutually exclusive, I'd wager that most people who do a lot of the former are also incorporating a fair bit of the latter and that most people who primarily do the latter are spurred by passion they get doing the former, but you're kind of not getting it if you criticize one for not being the other. it's like going up to someone's sandcastle and saying "this is shit, this structure is completely nonfunctional as a fortified residence" or flipping through someone's doctoral dissertation to say "so did you forget the cut-out paper dress up dolls or...?"

wha t if oregon trail was called wagon age: oregons

This made me so angry the first time I saw it I’m reblogging it again.

happy 10 years to wagon age oregons

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?