hardcover or paperback? bookstore or library? bookmark or receipt? stand alone or series? nonfiction or fiction? thriller or fantasy? under 300 pages or over 300 pages? children’s or ya? friends to lovers or enemies to lovers? read in bed or read on the couch? read at night or read in the morning? keep pristine or markup? cracked spine or dog ear?
I literally don’t get people who complain that other people are just projecting onto characters like “you’re just using that character to explore and actualise yourself” well done james that’s what stories have been for for centuries what the fuck is your point
There isn’t anything wrong with projecting onto characters it’s fun and it’s a big part of why fandom exists but a lot of y’all:
1) Get mad when canon doesn’t match what you project.
2) Get mad or offended that others are doing the same thing as you just different.
3) Lack the emotional restraint to respect that both the writers and other fans have a different vision from you.
4) Can’t put your projection down long enough to deal with the source material when you’re talking to the rest of us.
There’s nothing wrong with projecting onto fictional characters but when you can’t do it like a civilized person with a smidge of emotional intelligence and self-awareness you’ve got a problem and you usually tend to make the rest of us miserable.
@iicraft505 idk if we’ve discussed harvey birdman before but if ya havent seen it already heres a good example of why you should add it to yr watchlist
To other autistic people, when discovering you were autistic, did you ever compare yourself to other autistic people and suddenly feel like you were faking?
(I sure did. I focused on the traits they had that I didn’t, and it made me feel awful, as if I wasn’t autistic)
ifesbob 