anyway my favorite fma headcanon is that roy mustang is objectively like a 6/10 at best he’s just got a lot of himbo energy in him
im hereby banning myself from making any more sincere posts because they all end up too long. only tomfoolery from here on out
not to pull an “i told you so” but if there’s one theme that imo you should come out of the hamsteak epilogues thinking and asking yourself questions about it’s the value of of the assigned sanctity of “canonicity” with regards to fanwork and how you engage with media
like, i guess to put up a personal example, there are a handful of fire emblem ships that i like that have totally awful support chains, for whatever various reasons. i don’t like these ships for their Officially Sanctioned Canon interactions, but rather the potential of these characters’ personalities and experiences have with each other. i’m allowed to create these alternate interactions outside of canon and that’s like, an okay thing to do
i mean, questions like “what is the essence of a character” don’t have a right answer, but the purpose of the question is more about the process of trying to find an answer than the answer itself. any specific iteration of a character is one whose life has been shaped by an innumerable number of variables that turned out in a specific way. what if those variables had turned out differently? how many variables can you change before that character is no longer recognizable? would they still be the same person at the core? is there even a core?
what i’m saying is that these are great questions to explore and at the end of the day canon is a tool for you to use and to what degree of adherence you want to hold it is up to you and your needs
not to pull an “i told you so” but if there’s one theme that imo you should come out of the hamsteak epilogues thinking and asking yourself questions about it’s the value of of the assigned sanctity of “canonicity” with regards to fanwork and how you engage with media
like, i guess to put up a personal example, there are a handful of fire emblem ships that i like that have totally awful support chains, for whatever various reasons. i don’t like these ships for their Officially Sanctioned Canon interactions, but rather the potential of these characters’ personalities and experiences have with each other. i’m allowed to create these alternate interactions outside of canon and that’s like, an okay thing to do
not to pull an “i told you so” but if there’s one theme that imo you should come out of the hamsteak epilogues thinking and asking yourself questions about it’s the value of of the assigned sanctity of “canonicity” with regards to fanwork and how you engage with media
okay i lied my final homestuck take of the day is:
it is completely ridiculous to believe that anybody on the homestuck team set out to write the epilogues with the intention of “ruining homestuck forever” in order to spite/troll the readers. does it subvert expectations in a really uncomfortable way? is it kind of clumsy? are you allowed to dislike it? yeah, totally. but it’s frankly an idiotically cynical thing to say that the whole thing was made in bad faith
I have been following u for over a year and i thought your name was karen this whole time
Anonymousthat’s very powerful thanks
okay SO I’m going to preface this by saying that I liked the epilogues overall, even if I’m pretty conflicted on them
but I’m seeing this overarching trend of people belittling fans who didn’t like them because their faves got to suck real hard by saying, essentially, “it was pretty dumb of you to get this emotionally invested in a fictional character lol”
like, uh, that’s kind of how fiction works? sure, you can remind yourself that putting your identity too deeply into the life of a fictional character out of your control can be unhealthy, but you can’t really change the way you feel at the base of it. this is a pretty natural way to engage with fiction, and to some extent, the purpose. invalidating it because it doesn’t apply to you is kind of unrealistic
