2025-06-03 13:16:09 ¶ ● ⬈

martinblackwoodhaterfan:

> After warming up to a character, tma fans vrey often decide to take it out of the source material completely and instead write them a new reality, in which they’re a happy, normal citizen living a blissful domestic life.

> And that’s okay. Expected, even. Of course you want your favourite little guy to be happy. But at some point you have to realize that those characters are by default incapable of living a normal life. That they all were affected by the Fears, that the Fears are what brought them together in the first place. And if you take out the horror element, you’re obligated to practically write them all again, start from the ground up. Because their encounters with the Fears, the very beings who ruined their lives, shaped them into the people we, the audience, know them as.

> Jon wouldn’t be a paranoid, depressed mess if it hadn’t been for the Leitner he read when he was a child. Tim wouldn’t be working at the Institute if he wasn’t so desperate to find his brother. Sasha wouldn’t be a researcher if she wasn’t secretly drawn to the Fears.

> The main and possibly only thing bringing them together was the Magnus Institute. They were prisoners in its walls. They don’t even like eachother all that much, all their bonds were shallow and superficial before the horrors started to happen. They wouldn’t all be in a big happy friend group and go out for ice cream every Friday afternoon. You have to take that into account.

> This fandom lives on imagined scenarios for their gay little blorbos and at times seems to discard the source material, only taking bits of the characters’ personalities from it (even then, it’s barely enough to make them recognizable - they only take the “good”, easily digestible bits and omit the more harsh, “bad” ones - you know, the ones that made them complex and realistic?) A lot of fan content runs purely on imagination, and the problem is that everyone’s imagination is different.

> Write cute fluffy domestic established couple aus all you like. But at some point you will have stripped those characters of everything that made them unique and interesting just so you could fit them in your flowershop meet cute.