need more people to be reading john rich and the big picture on ao3 so i can talk to people abt this cartoonist falling in love with a hunky australian actor (and the commentary on parasocial relationships, the cult of Celebrity, and the spot-on depiction of internet culture...)
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JRBP should end up being ~80K words. The first 40K is John in blunt denial and the last 40K is John pining, hating himself, lighting candles at his Garfield shrine, praying for tyler to hold him in his beefy arms ✏️
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if it was anything like what remains in the chapters I'm sad to not see it (but alas, editing is a necessary part of any story,)
I can go on, but it actually felt intrusive in a good-bad way even though they're fictional characters??
in my Younger Years, i co-ran a tumblr fanblog for a VERY minor youtuber, and it was a constant "are we being respectful enough. is this weird?" so that angle is Very Interesting to me, almost 10 years later haha