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#my entire dissertation is probably going to sum up like 'hey uhhh maybe sometimes people like characters because they're INTERESTING'
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as a media psychology researcher 85% of my job is figuring out the most horrifically academic way to say "you idiots wouldn't last a day on tumblr"
#my job really is turning band lore into observations that are abstract enough that we can do math about it
#ADT my beloathed </3
#time for me to rant now
#you have no idea how frustrating it is for the general consensus in your field of research to be so completely off-base
#sometimes the way I have to talk to get other researchers to listen to me makes me feel like I'm a traitor to my own beliefs
#like yes. in a -very very basic- sense we do tend to like nice people who do good things and dislike mean people who do bad things
#there are traceable social-evolutionary reasons for that
#but its SOOOOOOOOOO reductive. especially when it comes to fiction (and it's not even limited to that!)
#my entire dissertation is probably going to sum up like 'hey uhhh maybe sometimes people like characters because they're INTERESTING'
#(cue 'what do you mean 'interesting'?')
#and you'd think that's so fucking obvious (it is) but it will take me literal non-metaporical -years- of research to get that point across
#when am I ever going to get further down my hit list. I also need to set aside time to destroy the concept of moral purity
#and don't even get me STARTED on character identification. the measures for parasocial shit are so broken we might as well just start over
#don't get me wrong I love my job. I get paid your hard earned tax dollars to do gay science
#but sometimes I want to scream
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