I VAGUELY heard about assholes using songxiao as a reason to be dicks but I don't know enough about how the fandom is right now and I may not WANT to know...
Honestly I still have a lot of feelings for Xiaosong and I feel like I may be walking into the fandom equivalent of WW1 old landmine field after ditching the war for like 4 years
@fragaargh These idols literally dedicate their early lives practicing for the moment of truth, and often even for longer
.... and this dedication and passion is exactly the emotional thing these ppl in suits are exploiting for image reasons
The root of evil is still greedy businessmen
@fragaargh Honestly the reason why it hurts to see these undying loyalty is that it indirectly hurts the people they love so much-- they're enabling the exploitation and they're too young and generally clueless to be able to at least demand better rights for the people they adore so
I'm losing it at the realization that a past friendship hurt me deeply and has been haunting me for 5 years now but also I just realized how to put in words how I felt some aspects of Xiao XingChen is misunderstood
My laptop said I have no rights in the middle of the stream so I had to work with my desktop in a funky condition for like 1.5 hours but I did finish a sketch,
@_cakwe Like I'd eat up the earlier entries willingly (I watched ROL too many times) but the newer ones......... it's just no longer about what it was and would've been better as an entirely different thing
It keeps retroactively rewriting its canon rules when it feels they too wholesome