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Do you ever imagine that all your favorite characters, who have absolutely no connection to each other, just chill in your head when you’re not actively thinking about them?
For me, it’s like: Leonardo from the 2003 iteration of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sam Winchester from Supernatural, and Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars prequels all sitting at a table sipping tea. And yes, they’re totally aware they’re in my head:
Leonardo: [staring at the mug in front of him] Is it just me, or does everything feel... jittery today?
Sam: [rubbing his temples] Oh, it’s not just you. I think she’s had, like, three cups of coffee already this morning.
Obi-Wan: [raising an eyebrow] Three cups? Amateur. During the Clone Wars, I once drank six cups in one briefing just to stay awake while Anakin explained his ‘perfect’ plan to flank a droid battalion. It wasn’t perfect. I ended up digging us out of a crater for three hours.
Leonardo: [sighing] No wonder I’ve been feeling like I should be training non-stop. The energy in here is buzzing.
Sam: [grinning slightly] Hey, at least she’s somewhat productive when caffeinated. Sometimes it’s just doomscrolling and procrastination.
Obi-Wan: [calmly setting his cup down] Perhaps we should find a way to encourage her to hydrate. Tea, perhaps?
Sam: [shrugging] We can try, but she won’t listen to me about drinking water. Dean’s been yelling at her from somewhere in the subconscious for years.
Leonardo: Maybe if we say it’ll help her focus on writing, she’ll actually consider it.
Obi-Wan: [thoughtfully] A clever suggestion. But I suspect we may be at the mercy of her next coffee run regardless.
It's true. Dsmp is the most unique Fandom I've ever been in. The sheer variety alone is astonishing!
We can compare most fandoms to rivers. Branching out from the source material but still streamlined to some degree.
Dsmp is the FUCKING OCEAN! There are mini fandoms within this Fandom. You've got dnf, sbi, ALL THE FUCKING DUOS! It's insane how vast it is. If you don't know what you're looking for going in, you'll never come back out!
Not to mention the amount of ways you can consume content. Fanart, fanfic, animations, original music, and that's all without touching the original content itself! Then there's the mini genres within those categories. Like in fanfic for example you have superhero au, royalty au, modern day au, vampire au, ghost au, fucking DRAGON AU AND SO MUCH MORE!
For all its faults the dsmp Fandom is truly an amazing space to be in. The creativity, talent and passion on display is really inspiring and I'm glad to be apart of it.
Dsmp fan content carries btw
Sometimes you run into takes that are so bad that you can’t help but roll your eyes, then you run into one so idiotic and clearly in bad faith that you can’t help but wonder if someone like Lily Orchard decided to make an alt so she can hijack a specific fandom in secret.
I run into these situations way too often for comfort and still people often wonder why I get so misanthropic. (At least sometimes)
If there’s one thing I’ve seen more in the Sam and Max fandom than any other, it’s seeing people draw the main duo in the most well-drawn cutesy lovey
situations and right there in the words above or beneath them is “I Hate Them So Much” like yeah I get feeling conflicted over their questionable morals while relating so hard to them. (So feeling morally torn ended up mattering less and less to me the more I thought about it) but hating them? (Although if it’s an affectionate hate, that that’s valid and I feel ya. I just think it would be way better if you put a heart next to that message or something.
Take this all with a grain of salt, I’m just spit-balling.