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one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

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my bravest knighttt... come hither ..... mmmwah !! ok you are dismissed

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i actually think it's awesome that john lennon's son is annoying on twitter because it provides us a glimpse into how unbearable john lennon himself would've been on twitter had he lived long enough. rip john lennon you would've loved saying shit like this.

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I swear if I tumbled out of the cauldron and Lucien was like “you’re my mate” I’d be like “ok word” and we’d live happily ever after

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I find it amusing that Lucien, the fox of Prythian, the emissary, the rake, the - If I offer you the moon on a string will you give me a kiss, too? - flirt, is rendered completely awkward and tense and almost incapable of putting together a good sentence in front of his lovely mate.

Some people could say this means there's no chemistry between them, but what I think is, if the-always-composed male has a brain malfunction in front of a girl, it means he's fucked. He found THE ONE.

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first day

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𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝐴𝑟𝑡: 𝟣/?

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seeing the 'mutual' icon change to 'following' feels like finding out ur getting a divorce through the morning newspaper

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will never stop being funny actually. they straight up are just not listening to him at all.

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Fuck. Those fuckers at the store sold me No Purpose Flour again. What the fuck do I do with this

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We do truly live in a society.

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Trump voters on tiktok are EXTREMELY mad about the following:

They just found out what tariffs are

They just found out what denaturalization is

They (particularly black and Hispanic trump voters) just found out that other trump voters are racist

Leftists and liberals don't want to be their friends (they are furious about this)

Leftists keep telling them they hope they get what they voted for (they are really mad about this too)

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study buddies!

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(Source)

Alex Jones, the ultra-right-wing conspiracy-theorist, was forced to sell InfoWars in a bankruptcy lawsuit.

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