In other news, I spent far too much time today debating with a reader of my fan work about why I was not writing their favorite character the way they saw them. I tried to answer with the simple, "Because I'm writing my vision of the same character." To which they responded, "But why, though," and then dropped me a (and I kid you not) THREE PAGE GOOGLE DOC letter. The letter might have been more useful to me, but it seemed to mostly be comprised of "Why did you write him this way, when he's obviously this other way?" without any supporting documentation. This is fan fic, show me where you get this idea from canon. I want page number and panel, so I can reconstruct your thought process and reasonably discuss our differing takes on the same moment in canon. I am always, 100% up for that.

AHAHAHAH what holy shit

Fandom is so bonkers.

(On a scale of 1-10, how wrong is it that I fantasize of someone writing fanfic of my characters and then someone else disagreeing with the characterization and then having the audacity of dropping them a 3-page Google Doc of why they're wrong?)

I always want to think the unhinged fandom people are like 12 but you know that's probably not the case.