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bandtrees · 2 years

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(through clenched teeth, trying to swallow back “blorbo was violently misinterpreted”-induced rage) the fact that one story can essentially become a million different stories to a million different people is so beautiful, the fact that one character can be a million different characters to a million different people is so wonderful, it’s genuinely delightful to see how one character or one scene can mean so many different things to so many people, thus making fandoms like one massive book club as no two fans’ interpretation of a work will be the exact same

jokes and irony aside, i think it really really is cool to think that my favorite character in the whole work is just a footnote plot device to some people, and characters i hardly think much of are the whole reason for experiencing the media to other people. my favorite arc was a complete flop to some people, while some scenes i hardly remember are someone else’s favorites that they go back to read over and over.

as easy as it is to get hung up on seeing things i like misinterpreted, it kind of quells that anger to think just how cool it is that i’m not engaging with it in the Objectively Perfect way either, that we’re all just taking stories and our own life experiences and preferences sorta subconsciously shape them into the kinds of stories we want.

there’s never really one Perfect Fan™️ or True Interpretation™️ of a work, and i just find that… cool to think about, i guess!

#babbles #surprisingly the character in that second paragraph i was vaguing was not dominus. it was erika #two characters with very little in common other than ‘man people are weird about this character huh. often in a racist way for some reason?’#i am very very very picky and opinionated about fandom but i think iv been too much of a hater lately #i feel this a lot with umineko - a story that’s already affected me greatly #and it’s easy for me to get mad when my favorite characters get misunderstood or when plots i like get brushed over by fans #but on a lighter note i think it is cool to think everyone is reading their own versions of these stories #im sure the people i roll my eyes at for making unfunny erika simp jokes have parts of this vn -#- that affected them so greatly that i rarely consider on deeper levels either. equivalent exchange #thinking about it that way just keeps me from going insane ig. He Is Awed By The Diversity Of The Human Experience #And The Many Different Things People Can Get Out Of The Same Story #this has been another: incoherent rambly 6 am text post #please do not blow up like my ace one.

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