#my cousin going on about some EU guy i've never heard of while I sit there in a Ouannii t-shirt was a wild experience

[youcantrewind]

After mentioning my trip was Star Wars related the other day, someone at work goes "Oh you're really into Star Wars??" and I got a little excited to say yes and talk more, and then she just goes "... I've never seen any of it." and it was like a brick wall slammed into our conversation.

I tried my best to give her the ol "hey not everything of for everyone, different strokes for different folks" response, but me originally mentioning Star Wars was literally a footnote in the otherwise unrelated conversation at hand, so why'd she swerve the convo towards it just to derail? Hyperfixation heartbreak. 🥲

On the plus side, I didn't set off some angry toxic rant, because that's the other risk of trying to talk Star Wars these days.

And it's also so funny because "Star Wars Fandom" is really a lot of smaller splintered fandoms instead. Clone fandom, High Republic fandom, OT fandom, the tiny GS fandom, etc. We talk about how there's "stuff in Star Wars for everyone" and you can pick a lane and stay there happily if you want, but the bigger the media continues to get, the more it becomes apparent that "whoa we went to the same college at the same time, but the class I took and the one you took were very different experiences and we still cannot bond over anything shared except maybe that one friend between us that showed up in both classes... Somehow".