if you want me to consume a new media you MUST catch me at the exact moment when the stars are aligned and the air pressure is equal to the current degree of the sun’s peak against the horizon and all the cosmic energies are perfectly unified (aka my old interest is fading out) or i will nod and say “im adding that to my list!” Knowing theres no chance i will check it out
“unless its a book!” “unless you tell me it has gay people in it!” “this but only for live action shows” “theres a good chance i’ll get to it eventually” no wrong this post is not for you this post is ONLY for bitches who could have a treasured friend recommend them something that sounds grown in a lab to be your personal catnip and, with no choice in the matter, immediately know it will never be the right time to watch/read/listen to it
So
this blog of mine has existed since 2023
and it has greater density of “reasons why Tron: 1982 is the absolute ideal movie for me” than you could possibly imagine fitting into those three years
BUT–
and I am nearly 100% certain of this
–the fact that I’m this deeply into that movie? is the result of a completely serendipitous convergence of random factors
in which I happened to find a Tron fanfic by accident when searching for a different fandom… at a time when my brain had just happened to enter the ideal alignment for getting into a new hyperfixation… and there just happened to be a once-in-a-lifetime perfect line-up between 1. my mindset in that moment, 2. the themes of the Tron fandom, and 3. the specifics of the one fanfic that guided me into it.
I’m not saying Tron isn’t the perfect fandom for me. It is. But my chance of ever connecting with that perfect fandom? was millions to one, and it happened entirely at random.
If anyone else had tried to get me into it, in any other way, at any other time – I guess I might have gotten an enjoyable evening of movie-watching out of it? But my Obsession Switch would have remained unflipped. The conditions it needed were rare as fuck.
So what I’m saying is… I feel super lucky to be here. Love ya, Tronblr.
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