If people wonder why you latch onto a show or a ship or a book or a film series or a band or a fandom, and if people wonder why you’re so invested, so “obsessive”, why you allow these things to have such an influence over your mood (be it good or bad), why you allow these things to occupy your thoughts and your heart and your time….
….just tell them to take a long hard look at the world we’re living in, to look at what is going on across the globe.
and then tell them that we fucking need this escape. we need some light in a world of darkness. and no, the world isn’t all dark; there are flickers of light, there are good people, there are amazing people.
but especially right now, the world is a terrible place, and it’s getting hideously dark. and we need something positive to focus on, something fun, we need something to distract us from the suffering - even if it’s not our own suffering. we need a little bit of light. we need something to hold on to.
we can love and we can care and we can do all we possibly can. we can cry over the state of the world, shout and swear and rant and rave, we can sign petitions, we can go to protests, we can reblog/retweet the shit out of posts speaking the real facts, we can do all we possibly can.
but if we then want to lose our minds in something that is “meaningless” in the grand scheme of things, that happens to mean a lot to us…..let us. and don’t wonder why. because we need this. we all need this. we all need that something to hold onto, to cling to in dark times, to give us a reason to want to continue living in this fucking shitshow of a world, even if it’s just seeing if our ship make it down the aisle, or seeing how that TV show or book ends…
like everyone needs something to hang onto, however big or small.
and if I continue chatting about fandom stuff and go quiet about the issues that are going on in the world; it’s not because I don’t care. it will NEVER be because I don’t care. and I know the same of the people I follow; I know you’re good people. I know you care. but I also know we need to look after ourselves, and we need to keep sane, and we need to do what we have to do to keep staying sane.
just know that I’m with you, all of you, and anyone reading this who is directly affected by what is happening in the world; I have your back. my heart and body physically aches for you. I want to cry just typing these words.
the world is a terrible place, but there is some good in it too; in whatever capacity that goodness comes in, be it big or small, hold onto it if you can. do whatever you can, cling on to whatever you can, to distract your mind from the misery, even if it’s just for a short time a day. hell, even if it’s all fucking day. do what you need to do; and this goes for EVERYONE.
I love you all.
