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calamitaswrath · 8 months ago

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I occasionally see posts where people criticize people in fandoms that view any given media through only a lense of shipping, down to flattening characters to just a few traits so that they fit a ship better. And don't get me wrong, those types of fans also irk me! But another type of fan / fan behaviour that I've never really seen anyone criticize is the types of fans who seem to only care about the lore of a series, and treat everything as a sort of puzzle that needs to be solved and that all open questions need to be answered. Which just. . . feels like a really boring way to engage with media. Questions being left open at the end of the story are good, cause they make you think.

Like, if there's a castle off in the distance in a story that only gets alluded to and nothing else, then that's cool. That makes me wonder about it. But I don't need to know about Lord Fucknugglebart the Dentally Challenged who once lived there And Did A Thing, especially when it adds nothing to the story.

#shut up cal you fool #shut up lucia you fool #this post is lowkey about star wars and some of its fans #but also xenoblade fans #xenoblade 3 has a good number of problems but as far as I'm concerned lore is not really one of them #and to name a counter example #I still remember how in the novel version of lotr return of the king #there's a point where aragorn's group travels along the path to the oath breakers #and they pass by an ancient corpse in front of a door that that person failed to open #and it's never brought up again and afaik there's no big Lore™ to it #and it still lives rent-free in my brain cause it's a super cool moment #or when gandalf returns as The White #and talks about how in the depths below moria he came across ancient nameless things that gnaw away at the world #and that's always just so super cool to me #knowing any more about these things would really just ruin them for me

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