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Jan. 24th, 2015 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFandom keeps on making characters poor sweet woobies with no self esteem who can't feed themselves.
Which usually flattens them out considerably, though there's also usually a bit of that in a character because apparently knowing your own worth isn't in fashion right now, just the extremes.
I suspect the appeal is that, if someone thinks they're rubbish, we can totally fix their poor little broken hearts just by being fans of them. We think you're best! We fix you with love!
And the food thing is pretty easy to fix for most humans. Not me, I forget to eat a lot, but most people.
Personally I'd rather be reading about superheroes having superhero sized stuff going on, but this particular vein of... not even hurt/comfort, more like fail-at-life/comfort... it seems unlikely to run out any time soon.
Which usually flattens them out considerably, though there's also usually a bit of that in a character because apparently knowing your own worth isn't in fashion right now, just the extremes.
I suspect the appeal is that, if someone thinks they're rubbish, we can totally fix their poor little broken hearts just by being fans of them. We think you're best! We fix you with love!
And the food thing is pretty easy to fix for most humans. Not me, I forget to eat a lot, but most people.
Personally I'd rather be reading about superheroes having superhero sized stuff going on, but this particular vein of... not even hurt/comfort, more like fail-at-life/comfort... it seems unlikely to run out any time soon.