There’s a lot of fandom meta and analysis that is so predicated on people starting from their conclusion and working backwards, so you get these bizarrely sanctimonious posts that are all like “lmao do Just Friends look at each other like this???????” and “if [Plot Point] isn’t true, then how do you explain the look on this character’s face?” and these metas or gifs or whatever become Canonical Proof of the thing they were reverse engineered to conclude, so that eventually there’s entire subgroups of fandoms who’ll be like “don’t believe us?? lemme show you the receipts” and I feel like the clerk at the returns desk at Target who’s like “these are lovely receipts, really, you put a lot of thought into them and I can clearly see your inspiration and interpretation, but I can’t give you store credit, my dude, you drew the damn things yourself”
I’m also sort of kind of pissed they made Joshua the guy who makes these decisions cause like
our Joshua was totally fucking chill, like the world is ending? tough shit motherfuckers, now check out these baby tomatoes? aren’t they the best baby tomatoes you’ve ever seen? that was my Joshua
which one of your otp is the one to die and which is the one to sit in the middle of the street, holding their dead body, rocking back and forth, screaming “come back, come back, come back”?
nothingidputbeforeyou 