Call me Jo. My age is debatable.
Courage does not exist without fear. I am courageous because I am afraid.
My blog is a mess. I have an unhealthy obsession with TV Shows, Books and Movies with Shipper feels and Fandom tendencies.
characters who crave affection but at the same time have no idea how to respond to actually receiving it due to the fact theyve rarely ever experienced it are my absolute favourite
When you say “even in canon this character is acting OOC” do you mean it as in “this character’s canon dropped the ball on internal consistency with them” or do you mean “this character I normally relate to made a decision that I wouldn’t have made” or do you mean “this character isn’t acting like the fanon we developed by rotating them in our heads for 67295 combined hours away from the source material”?
i enjoy the simple things in life like sleeping, daydreaming, ignoring reality, listening to music, being delusional, recklessly spending my cash, being a disappointment to my family and eating fruits
idk. i think fandom could use a lot less of “every person’s interpretation of a text is valid and true!” and more of “reading a text means taking all parts of it into account, including the bits you don’t like or the pairings you don’t ship, to consider what the full picture is and what the larger themes are.”
projecting your fantasies onto a text, hyperfocusing on the characters you think are hot/shippable and building entire theories based on micro interactions that don’t take other competing dynamics and plotlines into account isn’t “analysis” it’s projection and fantasy. which is fine, but take responsibility for your desires and your fantasies instead of making fandom inhospitable for everyone. some readings of a text are plain wrong, others miss or willfully erase vital context just to rationalize romantic pairings. these are not accurate readings of the text. doesn’t mean they should be attacked or shamed, but neither can you expect people to validate every single headcanon and shipper fantasy as a legitimate “reading” of the text either.
