#Sir it is not your fault. the sarcasm is obvious.your voice is sexy as hell and you are so skilled...you deserved this more recognition tbh | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

this-charming-primevalmusic · 8 months ago

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EXACTLY

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

#I feel so bad for the ones who created TSP #I mean there are stupid little children who don't understand that the (AMAZING) voice actor is just... well.. a voice ACTOR #he voiced chars in other games as well #it's not like he only exists for that game or even his work in general #he is so friendly and a good guy #I am so sorry if he had weird fan interactions #oh god... me included...#(sorry Sir.. I like your work and your voice and sarcasm okay?)#at least I was very respectful even if I may behaved like a teenage girl in love (he's incredible okay...)#and I think there are many autistic people in that fandom who don't care for the source material but for projecting shit onto the character #I also have psy. problems but I respect the people who created that and the source material #and how they do not get his sarcasm... I feel bad for him if he realized how many children disovered it through tiktok and don't get him #Sir it is not your fault. the sarcasm is obvious.your voice is sexy as hell and you are so skilled...you deserved this more recognition tbh #but not from children like that #and there are so many because of that stupid tiktok who have never played the game at all #there are at least 3 versions (depends on what you count as version) and they don't even care to play ONE #but at least the creators and him know now because of that fame that there are a LOT of people who love his voice.I hope the creators useit #and no that disembodied voice is not gay and that ordinary man (tm) is also not gay or a different gender or whatever #this game is about an ORDINARY man who doesn't think for himself! that is the whole point of the game!#if you keep your fantasies to yourself and the people who love that idea okay but...#eugh.... don't expect other fans who played ALL official versions and the people involved(!!!!) to accept your fantasies #this game and fandom is not about you and your problems with your romantic or whatever preferences #the people mentioned in the post and in these tags have one problem - they are too egocentric #this game touches so complex topics like free will and self reflection (something some of these 'fans' should do more often ironically)#it should be praised like the brilliant piece of media that it is

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