hey hi hello. this is the "thank you for all your analysises and i'm just joining the fandom" anon. to be clear i intended to reply to your reply way earlier but. forgor.
i'm glad my ask made you smile, i really am :]
and ye, joining in the 2026 does feel pretty wild at times. like traversing the lands of a once great empire that has since been crumbling away and meeting all these people that still live here, among the echoes of what once was. but it's pretty chill so far so i'm glad i joined
also, it'll definitely take me a Long Time to write the Dream Angst fic i planned for a multitude of personal reasons, but i can yap to you about the idea and future plot of it, if you don't mind ^^
That’s a good fandom analogy lol, certainly an empire with a lot of inner fighting. Which yeah on one hand it’s a lot more peaceful nowadays, but on the other hand it is certainly more desolate. It’s also interesting because I think while in the past people were probably more open to different points of view and speculation, now it seems like people can become set on how they’ve perceived the characters and unwilling to consider beyond that. This aided by fading memory, people joining late who didn’t watch all of the lore, repeated conversations newer people are aware of, and fanons so ingrained into the fandom the truth can get lost. Which I get, people like that version and don’t want anyone challenging what they have found they enjoy. And I say all that with absolutely no shade to anyone, just simply stating an observation I’ve had in general.
Though to be fair that isn’t strictly true. I feel like my opinion on things has actually shifted over the years instead of staying stuck, and I wouldn’t be surprised if others have too (actually know of people who it has also) which makes sense as we age and learn and grow. Views on life change especially in the younger years of life as we gain more experiences to form opinions about. And in this fandom, so many started out rather young, but now that it’s been 6ish years that means theoretically fans who were in elementary school (which I really hope isn’t super common because there is some seriously vulgar and dark things in the story told by 20 year olds…) are potentially in high school, people in middle school have likely finished high school or are close to it, people who were in high school are in college or already graduated college, and people who were in college (like me) have graduated or in grad school. And I can say even just those changes of academic levels makes a big difference on how you see things and how your life changes. Like for example going from high school to college is a big step in independence. Going from college to work force is a big change out of the school grind. My schedule is not the same it was 6 years ago and I certainly am not the same person I was. It’s really so wild to think about how we’ve all grown to be honest… I mean if I were like my friends I’d be having kids who then might grow up in the next 6 years to like Minecraft…
Anyways…. That got off track fast oops. To be fair, while part of me wonders why someone would join something so late, another part of me understands, cuz the story is cool and I mean for me amongst other things, the devastating prison arc is rather appealing. Plus there is certainly not a lack of fandom content to consume from fics to art to analysis, which not all obsessions are blessed to have so that’s certainly fun. :)
