Pretention
Mar. 19th, 2025 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haii2uThe recent announcement of 𝘐 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘕𝘰 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 getting ported to consoles has been a mixed bag for me. On one hand I'm glad more people can enjoy a game and story that means so much to me, but on the other... what if they enjoy it in the wrong way?
Now I know that sounds kind of insane and utterly pretentious - which it is, I won't deny that. But think of a piece of media that you feel connected to, and imagine someone stripping everything unique from it just so they alone can enjoy it better. Wouldn't that kind of make you upset?
That's how I feel when it comes to this story. Not everything needs to be fandomized, and not all stories need a happy ending. Saying otherwise just sounds delusional. I understand real life is stressful and engaging only with downer media isn't healthy, but literally nobody is telling you to do that. Nor do you need to do a deep dive on all the themes and elements of every single thing you watch, but if you can't engage with a story on a level deeper than "What if there was an everybody lives AU" or "These two characters would be cute together" can you really say you enjoyed it?
I guess I just want to talk about something without having to see a bunch of shipping posts. And if I could live the rest of my life without seeing another AM selfshipper I'd be happy. Seriously he doesn't want you, I don't even think he can want you.
But I don't want to scare people off from enjoying this game, or really anything else that I like. All I'm asking is to just engage in the actual story and recognize what about it makes it good and unique... keep an open mind, and let things just be as they are.
TL;DR "let people enjoy things" okay what if I enjoy being a hater? What do we do then.
Now I know that sounds kind of insane and utterly pretentious - which it is, I won't deny that. But think of a piece of media that you feel connected to, and imagine someone stripping everything unique from it just so they alone can enjoy it better. Wouldn't that kind of make you upset?
That's how I feel when it comes to this story. Not everything needs to be fandomized, and not all stories need a happy ending. Saying otherwise just sounds delusional. I understand real life is stressful and engaging only with downer media isn't healthy, but literally nobody is telling you to do that. Nor do you need to do a deep dive on all the themes and elements of every single thing you watch, but if you can't engage with a story on a level deeper than "What if there was an everybody lives AU" or "These two characters would be cute together" can you really say you enjoyed it?
I guess I just want to talk about something without having to see a bunch of shipping posts. And if I could live the rest of my life without seeing another AM selfshipper I'd be happy. Seriously he doesn't want you, I don't even think he can want you.
But I don't want to scare people off from enjoying this game, or really anything else that I like. All I'm asking is to just engage in the actual story and recognize what about it makes it good and unique... keep an open mind, and let things just be as they are.
TL;DR "let people enjoy things" okay what if I enjoy being a hater? What do we do then.
