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llycaons · 9 months ago

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this musical podcast is charming but I will not become involved in the fandom because I don't believe in hero-worshipping celebrities or referring to them exclusively by their first names (also one of the pettier reasons I hate tswift fans). no matter how friendly or approachable or cool-seeming these people are, they are at the end of the day performers who are being paid and getting fans based in large part on how charming and likeable they are, so they have incentive to appear a certain way. maybe they are just as lovely in private as they are in public, but ultimately they're still strangers to the vast majority of fans who interact with them. and can I be real. these musicals aren't THAT good

#cor.txt #mostly it's that I get annoyed when fans refer to people they don't know by their first names tho #the 101 song was the funniest thing I've heard all month perhaps #but the joke that one of the characters was a pretending to be??? a klan member??? felt really inapproriate #they're improvised so naturally they're not as polished but also most of them basically sound the same. to me #not sorry if I sound like a joyless cynic but you cannot put anyone on a pedestal #fandomzing real life people was soo bad in crit role fandom. they're just some guys. please #meanwhile I will ethically be obsessing over a fictional man. wait no fuck all fictional characters are expressions #of a human author's creative processs and carry with them the assumptions and bigotries that author holds conciously or not #it's less direct I guess. like I can talk about how much I like killua without being worried about the fact that he has independent thought #and will do something that will genuinely hurt another living human being. actually its funny I picked killua #bc I do love him but he HAS murdered people. but that's okay <3

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