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Commissions open & Promo!!
Hi all, my comms are open again! And since I have a tradition of drawing spicyy stuff for my birth month, I decided to share the fun: for the entire month of February, NSFW extra fees will be waived on all orders (~$20-30 off). Take this opportunity to make your fantasies come to life!!
Due to platform rules, I can't share any NSFW samples here, but you can take a glance at my Pixiv UwU
Repost bc I hated the other one
Did not realize people couldn't see these blanks on bsky if they didn't have an account, so here they are! I'll post any new ones I make or updates to these here instead from now on.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
There are no plot holes in TRC.
Logic crumbling is a plot point.
Well, yes, there are at least two genuine plot holes that can’t be explained with the “logic-crumbling-plot-point.” (For the record, I don’t think TRC is difficult to understand, and I tend to defend the story in comparison to HOLiC, which does have serious gaps and plot holes. I find these kinds of hateful “TRC SUX!!” posts annoying, too.)
The first one relates to where Tsubasa comes from. He insists to Princess Tsubasa that he came from Japan, and speaks about Japan as his home country, but his parents appear to be living in Hong Kong based on the size and style of their home. The recently-released Character Guide confirms their location to be in Hong Kong. The discrepancy doesn’t have anything to do with worlds falling apart – it’s honestly an oversight on CLAMP’s part.
The second one relates to how and when Feiwang Reed copied Sakura. When the readers first find out that Sakura is a copy, Feiwang demonstrates that he copied her when she activated the ruins in Chapter 1. Yuuko later states that she took the original Sakura’s body out from under Feiwang’s nose and stowed it away to use for Sakura’s inevitable reincarnation. Yuuko implies in the same chapter that the copy Sakura had grown up in the kingdom of Clow (by referring to King Clow as the copy Sakura’s father), which the Character Guide also suggests. Given that Princess Tsubasa was frozen in time throughout the story, this suggests either that Sakura was copied twice (once when Tsubasa rewound time, once when Sakura activated the ruins), or that Princess Tsubasa was somehow split in two and lived out a brief life in Clow before vanishing from the plot entirely (which isn’t backed up by any official source). None of the characters point out this issue in-comic, so again, it’s more of a writing error than an intentional plot point.
As a side note, the idea of logic vanishing across universes was a good concept, but I don’t think anybody would disagree that Nanase Ohkawa whiffed on the execution. She herself admits that she struggled to communicate the idea to the readers in the CLAMP interview in the newest Story Guide (which I’m in the process of translating). To get this kind of plot device to work, CLAMP would have had to repeatedly drive it into the readers’ heads, have it affect the protagonists and other major characters – not characters who get killed off and stop influencing the plot afterwards, like King Ashura – and translate it to the visual presentation of the story. I’ve never seen an author properly pull off the unraveling of universal logic (but if anyone has some examples to share, I’d love to see them!).
I wouldn’t blame anyone for missing it (or dismissing it), then calling the gaps in logic present throughout the second half of the story “plot holes.”
I agree these points are very confusing, specially the one regarding the exact point where FWR made a copy of Sakura. If we consider that FWR copied her when Sakura activated the ruins, does that mean that the Princess Tsubasa fell in love with clone!Syaoran?
On the matter of whether the reincarnated clones were living in Hong Kong or Japan, I was talking to @meimi-haneoka about this idea that maybe originally they were indeed living in Hong Kong but later, when Tsubasa was 7 years old, they had already moved to Japan? That’s the only explanation.
good dynamic: character who’s too deeply rooted to a fault + character who’s never been able to form roots anywhere before
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“If I think your life is in danger, I’ll cut everything down.”
No, but really. I love how comfortable Kurogane and Fai are with each other now and how parental they have become.
In the past, Kurogane was all crossed arms, glares and tsks, lifting Fai’s chin with the hilt of his sword to spit out scathing words of “this is the type of person I detest the most”, or punches to knock some sense into Fai. Kurogane never wanted to get involved, would help Syaoran and Sakura out but wouldn’t put his life in danger. But Syaoran and Sakura grew on him, and he couldn’t help but want to protect them, and he fell head-over-heels for Fai. Yet, he could never show it, not even when Fai grew cold, until Fai, his own Fai, snapped out of it with a bang (literally, he punched the daylight a out of Kurogane). Fai, in turn, pretended to be carefree precisely to wear Kurogane out, so he could keep his distance. He was convinced he was the person Kurogane hated the most, weak-willed and hopeless. Then, he found hope in Syaoran and Sakura, in the kindness and love they exuded, and understood how much he meant to them, and to Kurogane, who willingly gave up his freedom first, and then his arm, so that Fai would be alive and with them.
Now it’s just Kurogane squishing Fai’s head and pushing it down whenever Fai does something that irritates him, and he doesn’t even seem angry. Fai jokes about how much Kurogane drinks like a caring spouse and Kurogane is the best dad he can be to Syaoran and even Mokona. Fai, in turn, is cheerful again, but in an honest way, not having to hide behind any pretenses because he has found the family he wanted.
Domestic Tsubasa is the best Tsubasa.
I find it hilarious that they used wards as timeout for Kurogane. Was pre-Tsubasa Kurogane being a brat? I wonder how he dealt with it and why he ignored their orders.
Oh he was absolutely being a brat, no questions about it. Canonically he was a bit of a little shit about pretty much everything.
I imagine he mostly dealt with it by yelling in indignation until he wore himself out and they eventually let him out again.
And honestly I'd love to see it happen.
#Kurogane had no chill before Tsubasa #He was an absolute wild little shit and I love it
Pandora Hearts Secret Santa 2025 Signup!
Beautiful art made for last year’s secret Santa by by @penfaerie!
Here is the sign up form for the Pandora Hearts Secret Santa 2025!
I don't usually get this signup out so early, so I haven't decided when to close the form. I'll try to reblog this post with an update when I figure it out! Depending on a few factors you can expect your assignments back in a week to a few weeks after I close the form!
You may begin posting your gifts starting Dec 24th!
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A few things to note:
1. There will be a 2000 word limit for fic writers again! (I’ve hosted many secret santas over the years and I’ve had the best results when I give writers a word limit. If I don’t, often a few fic writers bite off more than they can chew and are unable to complete their gifts). 2. NSFW stuff is fine, but please specify whether or not you’re okay with it in your likes and dislikes. 3. Feel free to let me know if you can’t give your email! I prefer to send people their assignments over email, but if you can’t provide one I can send it over tumblr/discord, so that shouldn’t prevent you from signing up if you want to!
Have fun!! I'm so excited to see what you guys create this year!! If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask them!!
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I’ve talked before about how a lot of Kurogane and Fai’s communication problems were based on the fact that Kurogane had no clear understanding of just how dire Fai’s past was, which leads to incompatible communication techniques? and to me the conversation in the bar in Outo in 38 is the most important onscreen milestone in their relationship prior to the conversation in 112, because the importance of the “take me away” theme that crosses over into trc from cannot be underestimated. we know that in Clover, "take me to happiness" refers to freedom from a very literal cage, but also to a merciful death that can bring freedom from loneliness, both of which Celes will reveal are themes integral to Fai’s characterisation, and both of which require an external party in order to be realised.
and now I’m just thinking a lot about how when Fai says “I wanted someone to take me away” Kurogane doesn’t understand the physical constraints that were placed on Fai, and so posits an unworkable solution? Kurogane interprets Fai’s desire as a metaphorical one to escape a bad situation because he has no understanding that Fai had literally, physically, been trapped in a pit full of corpses he couldn’t leave. (we know that Fai is referring specifically to being trapped in the pit because he uses the same phrase to describe being rescued by Ashura-ou.) there is nothing simple or metaphorical about Fai’s bad past, and so Kurogane’s straightforward metaphorical advice to leave a bad situation under one’s own power doesn’t work. the misunderstanding in the bar sets the tone for their subsequent misunderstandings so fantastically - Kurogane is trying in his own way to help, but his advice fails because he doesn’t understand Fai’s past.
and in the end Kurogane does become the person who takes Fai away - who both metaphorically frees him from his bad history but who also has the physical strength to free him, very literally, from the cage of the collapsing world - but he can only do once he’s gained a full understanding of just how trapped Fai really was?
chapter 38 and “take me away” (kaze no machi e in the anime) are pivotal to their relationship is my point here
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I tweaked a line so it matches up with our translation notes, and Seresu spoilers to follow, but OOH
OOH this is satisfying the second time around.
COMPLETELY worth it.
Especially when Fai explains that he’s going to keep maintaining this distance between Kurogane and himself moving forward.
It’s BURSTING with all the character development that slides right by you the first time around.
Back in the Reservoir Fai CHOSE the family. He COMMITTED to it. And yet, Fai’s weakest moment Kurogane made a decision in spite of what Fai wanted and Fai got turned into a vampire.
And that woke Fai up. He snapped into full realisation of everything that he’d done and how he got here and what it all meant. It’s a volatile mix of what Kurogane had done to him, his choices being taken away, the KNOWLEDGE that he’s in too deep, that they’re in love, that Kurogane would do THAT much for him, and the familiar escalating guilt that he’s abandoned his twin a second time around for his own happiness - a chance that he shouldn’t have in the first place. And this hits right back to his backstory, down in the pit, where (thanks to Evil Wolverine’s memory meddling) Fai thinks he chose to let his brother die so that he could live. He’s lived with that his whole life. So here he is, ready to fix it, ready to make the Correct Choice this time and choose to die for someone else. He chooses (for the second time) to volunteer his death so that others can live.
And AGAIN he is robbed of it. This time by Kurogane.
But Fai doesn’t know this - he was robbed by Evil Wolverine the first time, and his whole life since then has been a carefully fabricated lie without his knowledge. He doesn’t KNOW he made the same choice both times. He doesn’t KNOW that he was always a good and selfless person, and has instead lived his entire life trying to change something he never did wrong in the first place.
From Fai’s point of view, he chose Selfishly and Unforgivably as a child and watched his brother die for his own benefit. So in Acid Tokyo he’s faced with the same choice again and tries to choose the selfless option instead - and Kurogane takes it away from him.
Kurogane is right to, to save Fai’s life, but as far as Fai knows Kurogane is reaching right into Fai’s past and forcing him to choose the death of his brother all over again.
So instead of this becoming a changing point in Fai for the better, it actually slams him in full reverse. He’s course correcting, retracting all affection and fun and any fragment of himself that he’d given to Kurogane.
And even that aside, how much must Fai RESENT himself for what Kurogame has done. Especially after his whole life he thinks he’s brought misfortune and tragedy to everyone around. He never wanted anyone else to get hurt for him, not ever again, and here is Kurogane swearing his life away for his benefit JUST LIKE his brother did.
It’s too much for Fai.
He can’t do that again, especially not to someone he loves, and especially not to someone he loves like Kurogane.
Fai blames himself for what’s happened between them and the only solution that will keep Kurogane safe is if Fai retracts his feelings completely. At the same time, Fai feels betrayed by Kurogane for unknowingly recreating the trauma that he thinks he caused as a child, and he can’t accept that from him.
Never mind the fact that it’s a bit too late - that he has to feed on Kurogane to live. As far as Fai is concerned, he shouldn’t even be here to do this to him in the first place.
And look at what has happened because he’s here? All the harmless fun he indulged in, the teasing names and the stolen moments he thought would mean nothing, have instead lead to Kurogane trading away anything he has to save Fai, and it’s all Fai’s fault that he did any of this to him in the first place.
Fai thinks that if he had never instinctively called Kurogane any of those nicknames, Kurogane never would have loved him like this.
Which, like, laughable, but still.
The conversation turns to Sakura next. Fai learns where she is and he instantly flips into full panicked concern.
And what’s so INTERESTING about Fai’s change of priorities in Acid Tokyo is that he doesn’t retreat into himself and his original goals, as you might expect. Instead of fueling his life back towards reviving his brother he instead dedicates it fully and formally to SAKURA moving forward, and I just find that so fascinating.
Chapters ago he committed to this family but Kurogane scared and hurt him so badly that Fai is trying to desperately distance himself from him, to protect them both.
But that doesn’t apply to Sakura, and Fai is on Sakura’s side FULL BLAST regardless of everything else.
Part of it is because this is the way it should have been for his original mission, I’m sure. He was supposed to guide Sakura through her journey and in exchange he would get his wish.
But that’s not entirely true anymore. We see it in just a bit, but there’s a moment where Fai’s love for Sakura actually interferes with the mission, and he sides with the feelings rather than his goals.
So it’s FASCINATING that he sticks with his choice, to dedicate himself to the family, but deliberately cuts Kurogane out of that equation and pretends he’s not there.
#There are ten secret levels to Fai's emotions that are just plain invisible the first time around #and once you see them it hurts all the way down
#Tsubasa DIVORCE Chronicle killed me xD
I’m not sure if you’ve dabbled into Kobato, but in episode 20 of the anime there is a whole episode where Lava Lamp and co. have fallen into Kobato’s world and acts as a cameo(?) of sorts, and is very clearly a continuation post-TRC-epilogue (even wearing the clothes they left Clow Country in the Epilogue). It wasn’t in the manga of Kobato, but it’s very bittersweet with the knowledge that it’s one of the worlds the Boys+Mokona have passed through in order to find a way to help Syaoran and Sakura.
This is very fun to know! I've read the Kobato manga in the past but had been warned away from the anime at the time - and now I know why!
Sadly it looks like the Kobato anime isn't available in my region anywhere, so maybe I'll have to try a VPN in the future to try see it myself. In the meantime at least I found this picture and this was worth it alone:
Tsubasa ILLuSTRaTION CHRoNiCLE - CLAMP (part 2)
What Happened to the Theme of Grief?
We’ve definitely talked before about how Tsubasa is largely about grief - the ways it can shape your life, the different ways people struggle with it, and sometimes even the ways people manage to accept it and take it with them moving forward.
We can see it very clearly in some of the worlds we visit - Chu’nyan struggling with the death of her mother in Koryo, Ashura struggling with the death of Yasha in Shura, a community struggling with the grief of a collective tragedy in Jade, the survivors in Acid Tokyo struggling with the death of the world, and so on. It's laced through a good deal of the scenarios we visit, though not all of them!
And we can't forget that our main characters themselves act as our biggest examples of the various stages of grief. Kurogane’s backstory is the most literal expression of Anger possible, with his murder rage after the death of his parents.
Fai’s entire life is one big slice of the Bargaining stage, with him hoping to trade his life for his brother’s - and I’d add that his attitude (especially in Outo) is laced with the Depression stage as well, since his dedication to his grief makes him forget that his life might be worth anything else.
Sakura herself has to grapple with her own death in Infinity, and we see her go through a few stages of Bargaining, Depression, and finally comes through with Acceptance - though I think in reality hers is more about trying to prevent Lava Lamp’s death, it still does have a nice arc to it and comes with an acceptance of her own end.
And the Syaorans! The plot opens (both times) with the “death” of Sakura, with both of the Syaorans struggling to try prevent it, and going through some very literal Bargaining to try and stop it from happening with the wishes they make. And their arcs are so fascinating to me - Syaoran (the clone) ends up losing himself entirely in the process of trying to save Sakura, fails to save her (he ends up killing her by his own hand in Nihon), and then dies himself in the confrontation with Evil Wolverine. The Autopilot state acts as a sort of metaphor for the Depression stage of grief, where nothing matters anymore (except saving Sakura) even if it’s slightly displaced in time, and the fact that it takes full control of him ends up making his loss entirely real.
We should also touch on the beginning of the manga giving us two examples of a much more natural and accepted grief with the passing of Fujitaka and Clow Reed. Both have passed on by the time of the manga’s opening, but the thoughts surrounding their memory are much more grounded and positive. Syaoran keeps a photo of Fujitaka on his desk to keep his memory alive, which he looks on fondly.
By contrast Evil Wolverine himself is maladjusted grief come to life. He is a living wish made from grief, and his entire existence is bent around trying to reverse a death. This grief IS all he has - unlike other naturally occurring clones he never expands his horizons into living a full life or making other bonds. He is an endlessly destructive force, a metaphor for what unchecked grief can lead to, and permanently cracks the universe in his refusal to accept someone’s death.
And then we get Lava Lamp, who Evil Wolverine finds kinship with.
It’s very interesting looking back, since his arc really is so similar to Evil Wolverine’s goal AND to Syaoran’s failed attempt to save Sakura, except his one kind of works?
Before the flashback arc in the Reservoir I had guessed that Lava Lamp’s whole arc would culminate him having to learn how to accept Not!Sakura’s death - that the entire journey has been him trying to force a kind of resurrection that wasn’t entirely possible, since he literally turns back time itself to make it happen. Since this is the trigger point for almost everything that happens afterwards, it seemed like a logical step for his arc to end in Acceptance - that he would have to finally learn to accept the reality of losing Sakura and move on.
I WAS WRONG. I WAS THE MOST WRONG.
Lava Lamp gets what he wants and through several complication technicalities absolutely does manage to bring Not!Sakura back from the brink of death.
Not only that, but everyone else in the Clow Kingdom comes back too! No-one is dead, not even Nadeshiko or Fujitaka. Full resurrection is back on the table just in time for the happy ending!
WHICH, as you might be able to guess, was slightly confusing to me in terms of the themes we’ve been tracing so far. It seemed odd that the universe could seemingly punish him for making his wish to turn back time, but at the same time actually go through with it and save not just Not!Sakura but also both her dead parents.
On the universe side it makes sense - the universe is confused and broken and struggling to flatten out a timeloop, so it’s made some choices and has to pick something to go with.
But in terms of theme? I was a little fascinating that it kind of reversed the way it seemed to be going. Evil Wolverine was incorrect for trying to resurrect Yuuko but Lava Lamp manages to squeeze his through just fine. Sure, they have to pay some prices to escape the Time Loop Punishment Void, but that’s more about the fact that they were time anomalies rather than anything to do with the resurrecting.
But in going back over the last five volumes I do think there’s a turning point in the story where we actually DO see the theme naturally evolve in real time. When we get Lava Lamp’s backstory in the reservoir there is a moment where Lava Lamp explains how he blames himself for everything that has happened (which Evil Wolverine agrees with), and he presents it all to Fai and Kurogane expecting them to agree. He gives them the space to blame him for all their tragedies and abandon him forever.
Instead Fai presents the opposite viewpoint - that there’s no way to actually tell what will happen and all we can do is what we honestly want.
And THAT'S the point where the theme evolves out of the narrative Lava Lamp thought he was living. Instead of everything being Lava Lamp's fault forever (ie, being consumed with grief for your entire existence) Lava Lamp's grief meets open love and acceptance and the question of his existence changes into "How do we move forward from here?"
At this point The Big Grief shifts from any individual person's backstory to being at a universal level - grief is represented by the broken universe itself instead of any single death. The core concept we fight against becomes the Idea of Never Moving On, which is represented by a few things. The endless loop of the Clow Kingdom for one, but also the timeline itself getting stuck on repeat, and the biggest symbol of them all is Evil Wolverine, who will repeat everything forever (or destroy everything) in his effort to stay in this impossible grief. He will never get over Yuuko’s death - he IS a living grief. But it's in the previous two examples that it becomes the most clear.
Not Moving Forward is described as being the same as dying yourself. You never have any growth or really ever live again. You HAVE to move forward to be alive.
And so the universe itself, stuck in an endless time loop, is also stuck in this state of being the same as dead. The grief has consumed everything.
Also, interestingly, this is never presented as easy. Ending the timeloop in the Clow Kingdom is an emotionally heavy moment as we watch all the people there die. And fixing the universe can only be done with a very heavy cost.
But it IS presented as worth doing.
Even if it's hard and painful and costly, living is worth it every time in these ending chapters. The Tsubasa family become the agents of completing the cycle of grief - not "fixing" the grief but accepting what can’t be changed and finding a way to move forward, to carry it with you and continue to live.
And I think they pull that theme off quite well! It's a MUCH harder idea to convey compared to the more straight forward "accept it and move on" that I had initially been expecting, but the shift of the idea from the personal level to the cosmic level really sells it for me.
(Does it get a little messy since the clones die and our immediate new goal is to bring them back again? Maybe! But shh it's close enough. We're in a shounen after all)
TLDR: it evolve into the idea of Moving Forward
#Kurogane's life has definitely gotten worse/better/weirder now that he's been introduced to The Blonde Man#< prev#Fai is like the only prominent Blonde Man™ in the entire series
Hugs!!! Hugs for all!!! lol I've been doing more of the hugging YGO characters cause my first batch did alright- and now there's lots more and it's also available as a YCH commission option! (I've been told the redirect link to RB hasn't been working well, so just search for my username if you're interested in a sticker haha) (redbubble) (ko-fi) (insta)
i love seeing my non-ygo followers in my notes going "what the actual Fuck happens in yugioh" because there is no adequate way to answer that question. everything happens. everything you can possibly think of that could ever happen, happens in yugioh.
wait a minute ok. i was about to start listing a bunch of absurd shit that goes down in this series but instead i'm just going to make my point by making it everybody else's problem instead
Which one of these events did NOT happen in the original yugioh manga or anime
Yami sets a man on fire in broad daylight at the local burger joint
Malik mind controls a mime and turns it into an unstoppable killing machine
Yugi confesses his love for Joey then gets dragged to the sea floor by an anchor
Seto stops a guy from shooting him by blocking the gun's hammer with a card
Ancient Egyptian laser beam battle
Bakura gouges out a man's eyeball and licks it
Yugi's grandpa tries to beat a ghost to death with a frying pan
Seto sacrifices god just so he can play another blue eyes white dragon
Yugi almost gets hanged to death by the yo-yo gang
Joey straight up dies (he gets better though don't worry)
the idea that “you’re disrespecting the creators of your favorite characters if you—quote unquote—mischaracterize these characters in your fics or if you reduce them to horny sluts just for ship and smut” is so funny to me because
1. some canon creators made it explicitly clear that they can’t read fanfics people wrote about the characters they created, because, according to their own words, if they ever accidentally or subconsciously used anything from people’s fanfics in the source material of their works, then there might be a risk of them getting sued (yes, the characters are theirs and fans cannot monetize any works that have their characters in them, but fanfics—aka something fans created—belong to those fans, so if canon creators ended up making money off of those fanfics, then they could get into legal battles too).
2. fans don’t write fanfics to “honor or please” canon creators. there are other ways for them to do that if they want to. but fanfics have never been about “honoring or pleasing” canon creators. fanfics aren’t even about respecting canon creators or canon events, and I say this with respect. (what do you think tags like “alternate universe - canon divergence”, “fix-it”, “crack”, “porn without plot” on archive of our own stand for?)
fanfics are like this; imagine yourself as a raccoon and you see this delicious food people left on their porch for you. you look at it and think hmmm yummy. so you grab that food and then you run away with it to enjoy it in some comfort corner. you may choose to enjoy the food alone, or you may choose to share that food with your friends (but you cannot sell that food, because it’s originally someone else’s and you’re just eating/having fun with it). you may choose to dip that food in some spicy sauces that may or may not be suitable for that food and how it’s originally intended to be eaten. but hey! who cares if it’s suitable or not. if you like it then that’s all that matters.
3. canon—when it comes to fanfics—are not rules. as @allthingswhumpyandangsty has said before, canon are only suggestions. whether or not a fanfic writer will follow these suggestions is entirely up to them. because they write for fun. and it’s okay if they want to say “you know what? fuck canon”.
4. the concept of “mischaracterizing a character” overall is, in my personal opinion, not valid. because movies, books, tv shows, etc. are mainly about the interpretation of each viewer. you can interpret this character this way. other people can also interpret the same character differently. and there’s no “right or wrong” way to interpret a character when they’re all fiction and fantasies.
“you can write whatever you want, but people are free to find you weird, childish or disgusting” okay? I’ve never seen any writer say “you cannot find me weird, childish or disgusting🤬” because humans are gonna have thoughts and opinions about anything and everything, no matter how subconsciously those thoughts are.
I personally don’t believe art (be it fanfics or fan art) reflect artists’ moral compass or who they are in real life, but just like any other humans, I do have thoughts and I do find some things weird, childish or disgusting. instead of voicing my thoughts out loud, though, I choose to mute, block or ignore these things and focus my time and energy on things I like.
and it’s literally not an issue at all if some strangers on the internet, whose existence I don’t know about, find me weird, childish or disgusting. as long as they keep those thoughts to themselves, it’s totally fine. thought crimes are never real. it only becomes an issue when you start harassing people.
fandom is not about trying to police others.
fandom is about fun and knowing how to mute/block things you dislike instead of harassing others (and no, finding someone or something weird, childish or disgusting is not harassment as long as you keep those thoughts to yourself).
overall I love and respect every fanfic writer, no matter if the things they write is my cup of tea or not, because I think it’s beautiful how they love these characters and how they’re so passionate about these characters that they decide to make something for and from these characters. and as long as it makes them happy, they’re doing it right.
*this is a response to a funny ask that made me giggle today. also funny how anon chose not to show their face, because if they really believe they are right then surely there’s no need for them to hide behind anon.
