This is perfectly fine and perhaps necessary for the art and creative ecosystem anyway, creations need observers/an audience that will appreciate them. Everyone can create, not everyone has it in them to "be a creator".

You cannot help but be unique simply by virtue of existing. Therefore, what you have to share is irreplaceable.

To say some people are NPCs would imply some people are main characters. A bit silly, don't you think?

I understand what you're saying but I just have a gripe with NPC/media terminology. Life isn't a video game or movie, we all have a place in this world. All we can do is make the best of it.

@letslearntogether Factually true and this is a frame of mind I hold honest respect for. However, my perspectives aren't meaningfully different from any other highly sheltered Westerner with a similar cultural context. I am very siloed and isolated and even though I spend most of my free time trying to expose myself to art and reading history and philosophy, I think the fact that I'm cut off from other people is >

< preventing me from understanding things and expanding my mind.

@yourdevilfriends I understand the objection to the terms, I'm trying to use (admittedly controversial) shorthand to gesture to the idea that those people who can really rock the boat with their ideas are one in a thousand and I am one of the other 999.

@sakana Yeah, I understand. For all my opinion's worth, I think being an average Joe and finding peace with that fact is quite beautiful in its own way.

Thank you, I'll be doing the same shortly! Have a number of new mutuals I need to add.

For sure! People who have seen The Big O are an endangered species, and Dead Leaves is a bit forgotten as far as anime films go.