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Apr. 10th, 2021 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfI still haven't even figured out if this is an attraction thing or an identification thing (or both? Can it be both? I think in some cases it is.) And I was wondering about that in 1998 already, when I wrote that Methos essay.
ETA: Maybe it's the one for some, the other for others, both for yet another subset, and something completely different for yet another subset?
What the fuck is the essence of "obsession-worthiness", to my subconscious? (ETA2: Is there one? Or has it always been many different things?)
It's gotten even less clear, if possible, over the years. Most of the early ones at least had an attraction component that I could identify, but a lot of the recent ones had no attraction component whatsoever (Herbert and Marvin - the aforementioned duck and a dragon; Bob - a narrative voice, and not even a particularly attractive one; Steven freakin Universe), but the identification element is at best extremely indirect, too.
ETA: Maybe it's the one for some, the other for others, both for yet another subset, and something completely different for yet another subset?
What the fuck is the essence of "obsession-worthiness", to my subconscious? (ETA2: Is there one? Or has it always been many different things?)
It's gotten even less clear, if possible, over the years. Most of the early ones at least had an attraction component that I could identify, but a lot of the recent ones had no attraction component whatsoever (Herbert and Marvin - the aforementioned duck and a dragon; Bob - a narrative voice, and not even a particularly attractive one; Steven freakin Universe), but the identification element is at best extremely indirect, too.
