Watching The Amazing Digital Circus while dating fictives from it has been a funny experience. We started off feeling very cynical about the show and its characters. We're just not big fans of the snark and negativity that's supposed to be humour. And the portrayals of mental struggles don't really scratch any itch inside of our brain because we already feel oversaturated from seeing them in irl people and ourselves - Representation of them in media might be cathartic to someone else, but not us. We guess none of that changed, but getting into a relationship with TADC fictives really, like, changed our focus. Even if the characters aren't accurate portrayals of our partners, even if at least one of our partners dislikes the character he's a fictive of, they're still portrayals of our partners and so long as they're not absolute bastardizations of them, we look at them fondly. The most negative we feel about them turns into "I wish the show would've been better to you", both in plot and character writing. Focus gets shifted to "I love my partners. Homg that looks like them!"















