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@mythicwitch

Don’t you?

@runicrascal

Why should I?

@mythicwitch

Doesn’t it … I don’t know, narrow the pool a bit for finding friends? Generally make you less respected by others? Make you kind of an outcast? Not YOU personally, obviously, but … in general

@runicrascal

Who cares? If someone’s going to write me off or disown me as a mate for liking something different to them, or wanting to spend my free time doing something they don’t care about, they’re not worth my friendship anyway. I don’t want to surround myself with people who are going to make my life smaller just so I can say I fit in

@runicrascal

I like the things I like, I have friends who matter to me, and, frankly, idgaf what anyone else thinks of that

@runicrascal

Even if sometimes that does make me a bit … defensive

@mythicwitch

Defensive?

@runicrascal

Sometimes I can be a bit on my guard when I think someone’s trying to belittle the stuff I’m into. Like with OWAR. I know people think it’s just ‘some stupid fantasy series’ but it’s not, it’s so much more than that. It’s finding characters you relate to and people you connect with and new perspectives. New inspiration for artwork …

@mythicwitch

Yeah, I’m starting to understand that now

@mythicwitch

So is that why you’ve been off with me? You thought I was belittling your love of OWAR?

@runicrascal

The 87 messages I missed earlier would suggest I was wrong. I’m sorry

@mythicwitch

I’m sorry, too. It’s been sort of an adjustment for me to try and move from ‘some stupid fantasy series’ to ‘this is becoming part of my personality’

@runicrascal

Truce?

@mythicwitch

Truce!

@runicrascal

@runicrascal

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