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lunanoc · 1 year

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i thought i'd seen all the Bad Takes this fandom can generate atp but no 🫠

when i say people only like being in it bc they can play a giant themed dnd game, i mean it. otherwise there wouldn't be people seriously suggesting fan fiction (that's conveniently only written by themselves and their group of friends ofc) as an entry point into a fandom for newcomers who've never interacted with the source material in any way so they can get a solid grasp of the characters rather than idk. the source material ???

with all due respect, why would you ever use fan fiction and fanon perception as the basis of your own perception of characters and stories rather than the source material its derived from, knowing fanon is always going to be skewed and give you biased secondhand information. and why would you ever suggest it in the first place?

#i continue to be baffled #if this seems like it's indirecting a specific post it's bc it is #my one concession is not replying to it directly and leaving it be #but that doesn't mean i'm not gonna have Opinions about it #but it's very telling about what i've been saying since forever about this fandom #people prefer their little fan fiction fanon bubble #that spews the most out of pocket takes on the regular btw #over the canon of the source material #to the point they may as well be talking about two different things #that's how ridiculous this is #and if this was one of those cases where canon is a dumpster fire i'd get it #BUT IT'S NOT??#that and there's ofc the insular cliquey nature of the whole thing like #ohhh yes i'm gonna rec the best fics #but it's only like the same five people #i'm not gonna pretend my own opinions aren't biased #but at least i don't present my opinions as objective and representative of the fandom as a whole #will i ever stop having opinions about the dmbj fandom?#probably not

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