Turning Damon into the male romantic hero is a total waste of an excellent character. And Damon is a freaking phenomenal character. Damaged and troubled and worrisome, but fantastic.
PREACH. Man, it upsets me when other sections of fandom also start conflating fanon!Damon with canon!Damon too? Like, seeing the idealised view of his character that some fans have, and then attributing that idealised image to show itself. Which, NO. Show has always been upfront about what a nasty piece of work Damon is. Just because some people have screwed up interpretations of the text doesn't mean that the text itself is screwing it up. I mean. Sometimes it does. But with Damon, mostly not. He is a thorough, three-dimensional, carefully drawn/constructed work of art. RESPECT~
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light format is the way to go, bro
Date: 2011-12-02 12:53 pm (UTC)PREACH. Man, it upsets me when other sections of fandom also start conflating fanon!Damon with canon!Damon too? Like, seeing the idealised view of his character that some fans have, and then attributing that idealised image to show itself. Which, NO. Show has always been upfront about what a nasty piece of work Damon is. Just because some people have screwed up interpretations of the text doesn't mean that the text itself is screwing it up. I mean. Sometimes it does. But with Damon, mostly not. He is a thorough, three-dimensional, carefully drawn/constructed work of art. RESPECT~