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playingonedchess · 25 days ago

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hmpf maybe those tumblr people are really right about what characteristics make a type of person, considering how long it took tumblr to condition took me, a straight/cisgender guy, into being into shipping

#i joined this site/first heard about fandom and got exposed to the subcultures on here like four years or so ago i think #though its a bit hard to remember #but anyway thats bloody ages ffor someone my age #at first #as in for the first 3 years or so #i was like this is just for short term im literally just about to leave #i literally kept believing that for years #and i was and still am only on here cause of being depressed or whatever so it makes sense really #just now i dont really care about leaving even though its still really not my thing #its just like the easy entertainment not having to think its so much less concentration even than watching tv #but it also always felt wrong its really not my thing only now i dont care i supppose cause im old enough and secure enough in my #identity to be able to seperate that from this #wait i suppose if i put it like that after the actual post it sounds a bit weird obviously i dont hate the lgbtq community or snything #i mean if i did i definitely wouldve left #its just in general the subcultures on here arent me #that does include that one but like if youre not lgbtq your just not going to relate to it i suppose #not the stuff thats actually about that or the stuff that i dont see how its related at all #which is what loops back to my post #like is fandom and shipping really so much determined by that or is it personality i dunno #something about being on here ive noticed though is i have come to expect like lgbtq stuff cause of honestly spending more time interacting #with fandom than actual fiction so thats sortif what registers as normal now not that i have an opinion on that affect of fandom #but yeah anyway my post ive only actually genuinly been into any ships over the last like 6 months or so #well maybe a year but its defi itely been gradual #like i dont genuinly believe that its cause im a straight guy that i wasnt into it before #well actually i didnt when i started this post i was joking #but now that i think about it maybe that is it?#like different expectations make me think i should be into different stuff and its taken me this long being exposed to tumblrs norms #cause theyre not the actual norms for me theyre just on here #not that that accounts for whether its something i genuinly like or not though whoch is what i was making fun of in the post #i suppose what you genuinly like is a lot influenced by other people really

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