Kirby’s Octopus Friend’s Speculative Lesbian Girlfriend (Also an Octopus)

You like Kirby? I’ll give you Kirby! This is something I stumbled upon while clicking around doing research for the previous post.As someone who enjoys video games and also writes about them, I have an odd relationship with fandom. On one hand, fans are what makes a given thing popular enough that it hangs around — if not in the form of sequels and remakes then at the very least as art and text created in tribute to that original thing. On the other hand, however, some fans seem to have problems differentiating between how a given concept is portrayed in a game versus how they have chosen to interpret it, and it’s everyone else’s problem when their headcanon butts up against reality. Every now and then, those people end up on a site like this one, and god bless them, they leave comments and threaded social media responses explaining why everyone should get on board with their take, which is the correct one. I politely encourage them to return to their Tumblrs, but I do not relish…

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