#herecy

Yes, there's Star Wars which I have very heretical thoughts about, and by extension Clone Wars which no one has asked me about. There's Death Note too, the MCU, Good Omens, X-Men (which I'll admit is mostly "ugh, X-Men"), uh... probably more that I can't think of at the moment.

The trouble is, I'm not sure when my thoughts are heretical and when they're not. My thoughts are simply how I think, when I read Midnight Sun I see Edward Cullen being a lunatic who isn't falling in love with Bella at all, and I see his family as deeply dysfunctional. I didn't first read the book the way Meyer intended and then sit down to Youtube pundit it up with "akshually, Aro did nothing wrong!" takes, you know? Granted with Twilight I'm extreme, but... I keep having opinions that I take for granted everyone shares, only to find that nope, it's just me.

I'll give you a better example than Midnight Sun.

Walking out of the cinema after seeing The Force Awakens, I was laughing helplessly with my friend because we both thought Kylo was just ridiculous, both in the sense that we found the guy comical and in that he felt distinctly manifactured in the sense that Disney had clearly wanted a Complex Villain™. He was young, weepy backstory involving his father, the whole shebang, without actually having any depth to his character whatsoever. There were only these performative scenes that smelled of Disney saying "See? See? Fascinated yet?". And, again, the guy was just so comical, I couldn't take him seriously at all.

I took it for granted that the internet would agree with me.

The internet did not agree with me.

So-- I don't know, anon, because sometimes what I think is a commonly agreed upon opinion is in fact herecy of the highest order.

It's best to ask me about any given thing, really, because if I try to make a list of fandom I'll only embarrass myself by forgetting to put some on the list.

Also, @thecarnivorousmuffinmeta had a post at one point giving advice on how to be a heretic, unfortunately I can't find it. The trick, though, is to look at what's actually happening, and not what people tell you is happening. Treat every narrator and character as unreliable: is there a chance your narrator could be wrong about X, narrator believes that Y is the case - looking at their reasoning, do you agree? Character A made a statement. Do you trust A, or does A perhaps have a reason to lie or else twist the truth? And, most importantly, don't look at authorial intent. Yes, character B is supposed to be in the wrong. Do you agree with that, though?

We’re all connected by the Smog. We can taste it on our Lips And caress it atop our Hair embedded arms. It’s a thick film trapping Flies, summers gone And Desire alike. We can smell it, eat it and shit it. “It” Will always be there And “It’ll,” Disappear with us, Just the same. I don’t believe in, “God,” Behold, “exit stage left.” I don’t believe in, “God,” So to, “exit stage right,” And as well, came the curtain We’d never control – Fade fog, fade smog, Fade you, fade I, Fade the smiles in ol’ Polaroid cellophane, And fade the once assumed Virtuous. That said, should the clouds clear, Should our feet remain rooted, I’d  know, “hope,” once more, As opposed to halos wrought word, And foolery come demise, Circles we’d ‘ever bludgeon routine.

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