This is a wonderful history post about how people have always loved fictional characters. “Fandom” is not really a new thing. There’s a lot of research about the highly emotional reactions to the first novels widely available in print.
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“We’re all just the current steps in a time-honored tradition” is one of my new favorite lines from this site as a whole.
Also, call me a snob, but if they’re OTP material, they’re both the lover and both the beloved, because they’re both crazy about each other like that, and Plato can’t do anything about it because he’s dead.