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Fanfiction conveniently exists for writing "that other story/ending/setting" you'd like to see happen, or are curious how the scenario would turn out if you tweaked a detail... or three... or all of it and dive hard into AU lands...

Remembering that the "original canon story" is someone elses' story baby they all worked hard to make, and it's cool they get to share it with us, I think helps a lot.

I really only scream in a fandom if the screen-writing took some really terrible turn like, didn't even make *sense* or something. And that's critique on the skill of storytelling itself, rather than a hate for the story. Rip my heart out and throw it on the theatre floor with heartbreaking feels, sure; a story making me feel so strongly is a mark of skilled storytelling.

Make me frustrated because the writing itself didn't make sense and broke immersion of said story, and you'll probably never get me out of the realm of fanfiction for that show again.

Remembering that the "original canon story" is someone elses' story baby they all worked hard to make, and it's cool they get to share it with us.

Please reblog if you're here for the story.

I watch The Bad Batch as an exploration of the beginning of the Empire from the perspective of a group of fugitives trying to get by in a galaxy that doesn't always make sense.

I'm here for their story.

I'm here for WHATEVER the writers, artists, and composers give us in their own good time. I want the plot to be given to me slowly. I want a character's redemption or further fall to have so much meat to it that I sit back and think, "Wow. They went through hell to get here."

I want to find out what makes the characters tick one morsel at a time, and I'm NOT going to complain about where the writers take them if it's not what I envisioned for them because it's the story.

Honestly, I'm finding this fandom to be a tedious place lately. A lot of people only seem to enjoy the show if they are given exactly what they want by the writers and the moment the show deviates from that, they complain.

I'm here for the story. Please reblog this or leave me a comment if you are too because I want to surround myself with other fans who are here for the Batch's story in whatever direction it takes us.