@duckland this is so good! Dream just keeps meeting other dudes on rock spires whose situations match his, huh?
The one thing I admit my essays are missing is putting the panels side by side, because by the time I wrote it all out I was too tired to go back and take the necessary pics…
Your essays are not missing anything, my dear. They are perfection. If you know, you know. No need for them.
My point doing this is that we can fairly say my wording is not enough so I just see weird things, I point at other things and wait for others to put my thoughts in some sort of order.
I think everyone has both “hard” headcanons (things that are so integral to your understanding of a story that you can’t enjoy content that contradicts them), and “soft” headcanons (things that are mutable, where you aren’t strongly attached or you’re open to alternate interpretations) and if you aren’t sure if something is one or the other you can just read a fic where the author disagrees with you and see whether you react with “Huh, that’s interesting” or “I have been overcome with a creeping sense of existential wrongness.”
“There’s something very special to me about the Dennis and Dee combination. I love how desperately she wants Dennis’ approval. It’s so sad.” - Kaitlin Olson (x)
