have you ever heard someone bring up your fandom and they’re casual fans casually talking about it, and they start saying something and you join in pretending to jus be a casual fan and they can’t remember a name of character or place or something and you pretend to guess and struggle along with them as they guess hopelessly as you cackle mentally as you know the height, weight, bloodtype, birthday and whatever else about the character and they don’t even know the name

And then you wonder

Maybe they’re just playing too.