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lewis-winters · 8 months

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Just wanted to pop by and say THANK YOU for that meta explaining that Lew wasn't The Only One Drinking in the 506th; that's one of my fandom pet peeves.

Yeah, it's my pet peeve, too.

Like. Listen. I'm not saying STOP exploring Nix's behaviors as self-destructive and alcoholic. If done with enough nuance, it's fun! Especially in post-war pieces. God knows I adore Spell of Riot, a winnix fic about Nix recovering from alcoholism literally decades after the war itself. It's one of my favorites. Go wild, who am I to tell you what not to put in your fics... or whatever.

What I am saying, though, is don't confine yourself to just that. Maybe. Just maybe. We should also explore Everybody Else as a fucking drunk disaster, too? And maybe also stop sacrificing all the nuance in characters and turning them into a collection of one-dimensional traits, ya know? Keep that to shit posts. Don't let it taint your understanding of the text omg WHO said that????

#ask #sorry I sound snippy or like a broken record #i've talked about this exact thing before when i did the fandom violence ask game last year #but anyway. yeah. i think the meme-fication of characters is a disease.#it's funny in a shit post #but when that starts to bleed into ppl's ability to close read characters in text #and color their perception of them #then that's when it becomes annoying

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