a lot of really annoying media discourse on tumblr comes down to people having a hard time accepting that both of the following are true at the same time:
- for any work of fiction interesting enough to be worth talking about, there will be multiple equally plausible and valid interpretations that are possible – and by interpretations here i don’t just mean headcanons about minor details, i mean how you read the core themes and character arcs. and very often some of those equally valid interpretations will directly contradict each other and that’s ok
- not EVERY interpretation is valid, some are genuinely just dumb as hell and unsupported by the text
amhrancas 