captainlordauditor:

athingofvikings:

prokopetz:

So are you an “obsessing over minor background characters who you find more compelling than the nominal protagonist due to a coincidental intersection of experiences” fan, or an “anchoring your entire understanding of the material in random worldbuilding details which the text is thoroughly uninterested in exploring and which probably had no greater thought put into them than ‘hey, woudn’t it be cool if?’“ fan?

an “anchoring your entire understanding of the material in random worldbuilding details which the text is thoroughly uninterested in exploring and which probably had no greater thought put into them than ‘hey, woudn’t it be cool if?’“

Jeeze, just @ me next time! :D

A couple months ago my entire perspective on what I had previously thought of as another inconsistency in the absurdly-inconsistent-for-how-recently-it-was-introduced Court Of Owls Lore that led to the death of a favored background character shifted when a close friend sent me a page from another comic in the same universe from 25 years ago which has never been referenced again explaining a loophole in selling your soul to a demon that allowed your soul to escape as a ghost, so……..

Bold of you to assume I’m not both.

(via haldora)