Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151103053104

Yoshimickster wrote: Gilgameshkun wrote:

Besides, I was also drawing on many of my own experiences with family and friends. Your Mileage May Vary (TM). :) Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah but that's not really a GOOD thing when you apply it to fiction and treat it as canon. I once again posit that your interpretation of Raphael is based on YOUR personal experiences and not those of everyone in the entire TMNT fandom. The most important part of criticism is keeping other people's perspectives in your thought process. I do try to do that. But I don't know the entire fandom, and I don't like every TMNT work there is, so naturally I'm going to meet fans with fundamentally different interests and perspectives from me such that it's difficult to see eye to eye sometimes.  Away from this wiki, most of my discussions are with a circle of TMNT fan friends, most of whom are LGBT guys.