People on this website will dislike a character and legitimately start talking like Jafar.
no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.
reading a negative review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn’t understand it at all
ALTreading a positive review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn’t understand it at all
Reading a negative review of something you hate by someone who very clearly didn't understand it at all and hates it for the wrong reasons
"but the text never explicitly stated it!!!" hey, so that's actually what they tried to teach you in those english classes you barely passed 😁
i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision
elaboration
if I may:
not to be mean but you just know that some ships only get popular because of a widespread (and totally ooc) fanon interpretation of one or both characters
wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media
In my experience, they tend to actually go with the way dumber option of "Okay so this means that, every time we pit the hare against the tortoise, the tortoise would win, and therefore a tortoise can also beat all the other animals a hare could ordinarily beat in a race"
The worst part of being peripherally exposed to fandom drama is when you know some part of the accepted narrative is bullshit because you can smell the spin on it, but you aren't familiar enough with the topic to spot exactly what part. Logically I know I should let it pass, but there's a Mystery To Be Solved, dammit.
Sometimes I do ship something and it's not unpopular its just that fanon harbors enough popular misconceptions to make the content frequently unreadable. So I will be like "can I have my ship please" and the internet will go "sure! here are a thousand results!" and I will go "is it actually my ship or is it some guys who are basically totally different characters in all meaningful ways that someone is having masquerade as my blorbos?" and the answer is yes often enough that I give up
media literacy would automatically go up 100% if people knew how to consume stories without self-inserting themselves into the characters' shoes. "if i were him..." you're NOT. you may relate to his story, his past, his traits, his quirks, his identity but the moment you start treating the story accepting what you feel/think as what the character feels/thinks, you're misunderstanding the story.
