Tbh, I Think Interpreting Your Favorite Fictional Character(s) Is One Of Those Areas Where You Shouldn't

Tbh, I think interpreting your favorite fictional character(s) is one of those areas where you shouldn't feel guilty about building yourself an echo chamber. You're allowed to engage with fictional media as an escape, as something to feel good about. You're allowed to have your fictional story preferences and stick to them, when it comes to something you engage in as a hobby.

Yes, it can be good to step outside your comfort zone sometimes, to challenge yourself with new ideas and to engage in critical consumption of the media you watch or read. That doesn't mean you need to constantly engage with your faves in fandom spaces critically, too, though (beyond being polite to other fans and not demanding that they also adhere to your personal interpretations Or Else).

Fandom space is allowed to be a hobby that you engage with to be happy, rather than another sphere of faux activism that you engage with for progessive Good Person points even when it makes you miserable and drags you down.

Echo chambers are bad when they're all you ever engage with. They're fine, though, when you build them deliberately around spaces that are meant to be personal comfort spaces rather than political ones.

well i guess it's always good to make sure i'm not in an echo chamber when it comes to interpretations of my fave characte- *ventures outside my circle of mutuals* OH JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE

Just remember aang nendo….

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I recently rewatched Avatar and I can’t believe I never realised what a GOOD BOY ZUKO IS. SUCH A GOOD, WHOLESOME, PRECIOUS BOY

Elon Musk is a snake-oil salesman. He's never been a "tech genius," he's just good at marketing.

The "myth of the tech genius" is a myth because it's based primarily on people who are good at marketing themselves, which generally isn't a group that overlaps very fully with people who are actually intelligent.

The Atlantic

Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends.

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Many of the ideas coming from his peanut gallery were equally poor. Döpfner, who is in charge of numerous media companies, including Insider and Politico, offered to run Twitter for Musk but seemed woefully unprepared for the task. In a novel-length text, Döpfner laid out his “#Gameplan” for the company, which started with the line item: “1.),, Solve Free Speech.” He alluded to vague ideas such as making Twitter censorship resistant via a “decentralized infrastructure” and “open APIs.” He’s similarly nonspecific with his suggestion that Twitter have a “marketplace” of algorithms. “If you’re a snowflake and don’t want content that offends you pick another algorithm,” he wrote Musk.

At one point in early April, Musk appears infatuated with his own idea to replace Twitter with a blockchain-based payment-and-message system. In a string of texts to his brother, the entrepreneur Kimbal Musk, he manages to convince himself that the idea could be huge and a way to crush spam while preserving free speech. In this preposterous scenario, users would have to pay a fractional amount of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin to post or retweet. Roughly 10 days later, Musk sends a different text noting that “blockchain Twitter isn’t possible.”

You may wanna see if "Hide mature stuff" is activated for you

Its in settings. It was not activated for me, but I'm on Android, and this feels like a Complying To Apple's Puritanical Bullshit thing. Worth checking if they set it to Hide for you.