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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

#let them cook #fave

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I’ve been silent for too long and can no longer bear to keep this inside: @pickles4nickles is a good person and deserves many good things.

#:D !!! #positivity

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I’m Team Valor for sure

#THIS POST WAS WHY I CHOSE VALOR #LMAOOOOO #Pokemon #audio #fave

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Desperation

#persona 3 #persona 4 #persona 5 #p3 #p4 #p5 #fave #I am OBSESSED with these omg

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drop this goro when they least expect it

#persona 5 #p5 #aaaaaa #queue

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It's funny how a silly fictional character can come into your life and then take over your entire brain chemistry

#Goro Akechi did this to me 5 years after I played base game and 1 after I played royal #I am still so mad (not really) #LEAVE ME ALONE AHHHHHH #*Joker from the manga voice* AKIRA! AKIRA! AKIRA! #AHHHHHHHHH

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2/2

you already know what needs to be done.

#p5 #persona 5 #Akeshu #shuake

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beak ≠ obstacle

#OH HI #p5 #persona 5 #Akeshu #shuake

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This is basically how that scene went

#persona 5 #p5 #HELP #queue

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#persona 5 #p5 #Shujin trio 🥺🥺🥺 #queue

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joker&morgana

#p5 #persona 5 #obsessed

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Age old question: which one would you choose for Tamagoketchi

#persona 5 #p5 #BLACK MASK!! #queue #these are so cute I wish they were real

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I think I have a type when it comes to favorite cosplays (Stelle and Joker plus all my other silent protags who canonically say things that get party members to give them the stink eye)

#Parker says things #joker and Stelle should exchange trash and rancid gravy tbh #god I miss cosplay I can’t wait for next con #I need better photos I’ve improved so much since the joker one especially

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Ryuji 💙🌓♊ if you're still taking requests <:)

#BABY BOY #I LOVE RYUJIIIII #persona 5 #p5

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Gonna start telling dudebro gamers who call me bad things™️ that video games are also gay. What do you mean you’re locking into PvP mode? Penis versus penis?

#Parker says things

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let’s settle this shit but do NOT reblog if you’re gonna be modest about it like a little BITCH. anyway privilege check tell me which ones apply to you: hot, funny, can dance, can do math, can spell, can drive, can cook

#ok wait I’m gonna redo this #hot if you’re into androgyny #my sense of humor is like my one consistent trait #don’t ask me to dance unless you mean DDR or a kata lmfao #or if you’re leading but I would say no and go look for my wife so I could dramatically ask for this dance. sorry I’m down bad #can do math unless trig or calc #can spell pretty well #I know how to drive but have medical concerns unfortunately #can cook unless I’m trying to hard and then I over knead dough because I was distracted by flirting 🥹👍 #specific instance I will never live down. cookies were still good though!

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the longer i stay in fandom, the longer i think a huge amount of bad takes and discourse come from an... abundance of identifying with a character

to be clear, i don't think it's bad to identify with a character. far from it! i think that's part of what makes fiction so powerful.

and it's only logical people often attach to a blorbo because they're just like me, for real. a person will see some element of themselves-- their race, their gender, their sexuality, their hobbies, their family life, their specific flavour of neurodivergence-- and something just resonates. it gives them a way to explore and name this important part of themselves, a part they maybe didn't even know existed before it.

and everything is well and good until some split between them and the character shows up

because of course, no character, except an explicit self-insert written by yourself, will ever be a perfect 1:1 for your own experiences. so sooner or later-- maybe in canon, maybe in a fanwork-- your blorbo diverges from your lived experience in a huge way.

I think this is why shipping culture in particular gets so toxic. While it is by no means the only way to indulge with shipping, a significant portion is 'if i was in that character's shoes, i would choose X'. the fight becomes for your own self-identity.

but this gets expanded in other ways. a character who is revealed to be black when the majority of the fandom had just assumed they were white. or revealed to be queer, or maybe the 'wrong' flavour of queer. or fuck, even some more innocuous part of their backstory, one that's nonetheless so meaningful for SOMEONE, but now it feels like the story is saying, fuck you, we're doing something else

i don't know. i just feel acknowledging this perceived-attack-on-identity helps me understand why people react it what seems to be such outsized way to canon and fanworks alike.

at the same time, i think it's a really important thing to check in yourself.

it's nice, to see a character who you identify with. who resonates with for being like you. but it's also nice to acknowledge and appreciate the way characters are not like you at All. how great it is to get insight into this totally different lived experience. and to muse on how wonderful that recognition might be for someone who does have that background.

#thank you op #I’ve been thinking this for awhile along with up to interpretation aspects of characters #and the vicious cycle of attacking identities to seemingly protect your own #because these characters resonate with you! but they resonated with the opposition too #and that’s not a bad thing #in every fandom I’ve been in the ship wars feel so personal because people take it personally #I like my p5 ship but that shouldn’t affect someone else and vice versa #idk I think it’s amazing to look and learn about other interpretations even if you disagree #learn more about other people and learn to appreciate or understand what you don’t like #without being belligerent like I’ve seen far too muc #this is a really good post 🙏🙏