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gaypiratebrainrot:

> goldfyshie927:

> > A conversation I don’t think yall are ready for yet is that you can love a character sooooo much and relate to them and see yourself in them but at the end of the day they’re still fake and that’s why someone else’s take on them or headcanon about them isn’t a direct message about you or insult to your identity. If your identity is so wrapped up in a character that you can’t distinguish between reality and fiction, then you are the problem. Not some random person online who interprets the character differently than you.

> this also goes for when you hate a character soooooo much and relate them to every person who hurt you and see everyone you hate in them, at the end of the day they’re still fake and someone else’s love for them is not a commentary on your trauma

No, actually, I think I’m allowed to do these things. If fiction affects reality or is a reflection of reality then I get to be affected by this type of thing. And I can, in fact, point out that their interpretation does show how they view me and my trauma.