"read another book", but not about the TERF this time.
Is it just me who finds it weird when like.
Someone you're talking to like, ONLY references one piece of media constantly as their touchstone for understanding other media?
Like "oh this is like [darksouls boss that shares vague thematic elements]!"
Fuck is it draining to try to have any conversation past "ahaha, yeah I get that reference" with folks like that.
"read another book", but not about the TERF this time.
Please just play more games I guess?
Read some books? Watch some content?
Like consume a wider range of media so when ever you see a new creature in ffxiv, you don't instantly just blurt out what ever pokemon or monsterhunter monster it bears extremely strained connection to.
re: "read another book", but not about the TERF this time.
@Draekos i think this is kind of a fixation thing? like we do this a lot with games and stuff we're really into, and i think it's related to the whole hyperfixation thing that's really common in autistic people
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re: "read another book", but not about the TERF this time.
@Felthry I... I guess?
I dunno, just feels really frustrating that "oh it's just like a [--]!" comes up when the traits they share are:
-vaguely similar color
-lizardy
-long tongues(I guess????)
but like...
one is poisonous dragon thing with a super long neck and tail, the other is like a buff antro lizardman basically?
re: "read another book", but not about the TERF this time.
@Felthry The more I think about it, it's the general tone and word choice that comes across as "this is clearly a copy of a thing I like and that's good and cool" which like........... no? It's definitely not? Their similarities are minor and shared with a LOT of other things? If it was "hey this reminds me of _ because __" it would be way less interesting?
re: "read another book", but not about the TERF this time.
@Draekos i dunno now i'm worried we're annoying our friends with stuff like this, i didn't think it was something that people found bad
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