still can't deal with the fact i'm so-called canon divergent. Maybe cause i'm so far, after almost 1 year of being in the system, the only one with memories. It just, it doesn't feel like being "different from canon", yknow? It just.. it feels like "canon" is entirely wrong in itself and what I remember is what's the right telling of the story.
i'm "canon divergent" because of the abuse i experienced from the red man everybody ships me with.
i'm "canon divergent" because i'm transmasc and apothiromantic apothisexual. aka repulsed aroace.
i'm "canon divergent" because i'm disabled (and mentally ill) with autism, adhd and probably BPD and CDD too.
you call it canon divergent. i call it the truth. parts of me that were cut away or sealed forever for nobody to hear apart from if i tell them. but when i do it's played off as something else.
I wish to give a message to any Eddsworld fan out there, whether fictionfolk of any kind or not;
Please, please don't take everything that i supposedly said in the show - whether a decade or as of sending this, a few hours ago - as the truth or something i, specifically i would say.
I'm not an ableist. I would not enjoy suddenly looking female again. I'm repulsed towards any kind of attraction. And the emphasis on "i'm" is not because i'm source separating or something - it's because i know there's many others out there and i don't want to limit my experiences to be what everyone else must have experienced too. but also if you do are ableist, maybe take some therapy to get out of that mindset, please.
do the recent rather questionable things i've been showed to do or said recently make my source officially problematic now? or controversial? or maybe just "my canon", or how i like to call it, my truth? perhaps it's always been controversial for fictionfolk specifically? i dont know.
but i surely won't source seperate. i'm still The Guy. just different from what's being presented to you. i'd like to tell my story someday, but i believe i still have a loooong way ahead of me finding the right people to tell this stuff to. Apart from this blog obviously, oops. I don't know anyone personally here, probably, but y'all are the best. so, thanks for sharing your stories and thoughts.
-Tom, fictive (Eddsworld) #☄️🌌💫