#actors playing the role of barista and tired university student dkdhjd that's chill and like

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#...thinking about how idols are told play-up their relationships with group members of their groups for fanservice and #usually it doesn't rub me the wrong way too hard bc often u can See when idols are playing things up bc they're often average actors djdhdj #but idk i was just thinking about the ones who actually are close to some or all of the members of their groups and just #imagine having an exec come in and say 'everyone loves your ship please act like you love each other but it's a secret but it also isn't' #and no matter what legitimate relationship you have with that person that's kind of fucked #and it all feeds back into it when people make their dumb shipping videos and then fan engagement research people see that shit #and go okay time to report back on the popular ships like i was watching that friendship test vid with nct127 and like #taeyong Knows that people love his relationship with doyoung and that was one of the points he brought up talking about it like #???? imagine being close with someone partially bc u know the fans love it wtf #like maybe that didn't do anything to their friendship maybe they were already like this and it's chill #but idk feels weird don't like it... #sometimes i see a fic that is like here is group members in their real life and i've written a fic about their secret relationships and i #i just don't quite understand why you would think it's okay to publish that kind of weird speculation about Real People #i find it less weird when it's like here is my story about a world that doesn't exist and i've projected these people into it as like #actors playing the role of barista and tired university student dkdhjd that's chill and like #idk it just feels seperate from Them as People who Exist in the world and who deserve Privacy and not having a bunch of weirdos speculating #about their love life or worse...... #like it's dumb to think that writing isn't often based on the characteristics of other people and characters #and it's smart to use popular characters and people as an easy way of introducing a character in the setting of fanfiction i Love that shit #i guess what this rant is coming to is i'm mad when people don't put in big bold easy to filter out print that a story about a real person #is either 'in canon' or 'canon divergent' like no bad i don't want to read that it feels gross #like i know it's all pretend but i still feel like i'm invading a real person's privacy it's gross and voyeuristic in the worst kind of way #sorry if you read this dkhdjdg i wonder how many shitty anons i'll get who don't even follow me this time lmao