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8cfc00 · 7 days

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augh who up feeling like they should be humanely euthanised for liking media the wrong way... sorry for fandomising certain characters but not fandomising others enough in the right way.

#ive noticed the wbg fandom has a very different way of interacting w the source media than like. dndads #both are similar in some of the fandomising of characters #specifically like funny characterisation stuff #but when it comes to more complex stuff like angst it feels like the wbg fandom approaches from a different layer #eg in dndads just a characters death is seen is sad but for wbg a lot of the time theres more to it...#an extra layer. a more complex flavour. the horrors are not just those experienced but the entire surrounding situation.#like edgars death isnt sad #i mean. its not sad in the way that referencing it in art will get any attention #but TJ's death is devastating!#with notable exceptions of course. eg innocent hunter and like everything about him #i find that i tend to approach media more stylistically and appreciating the DRAMA which i can mine for visuals #and then in my art i try to challenge myself to translate those vibes #like picking at a thread that is already present. an angst or dynamic already present and explored briefly #but wbg fandom tends to lean more towards analysis? which makes the way i engage feel a bit surface level #like in wbg fandom i dont think i can do the eqiuvalent of all my angsty glenn close art #also i just noticed. the characters in wbg are really interesting because you THINK they #wouldn't be very fandomised. that theyd be treated within the show as more like characters that exist to push the plot forward #but then certain characters act as very fandomised versions of themselves in canon #and are treated as their one trait in the qnas too!!#its like theyre almost dndads characters in this way. but without even that extra layer #the second heat that even like henry oak has! like henry's a hippie but he's also stinky and cringe and is repressing so much shit #but marissa is just explosions girl #i guess that's maybe cuz many characters in wbg arent main characters but in dndads they all are #BUT EVEN NPC HERMIE. HIS LAYERS.#very interesting

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