It’s going to be funny once we hit the TikTok generation and some of our old hits get recycled that way:
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In general hitting the true peak of social media which is still a few years beyond that point is going to be insane
Honestly I don’t click with that stuff at all normally (outside of like, obsessive types because I guess some people don’t want a stalker or something, weirdos), but for Zima I think I’m running entirely on the fact that I’m like that. I think if like anything was just different enough that I couldn’t relate so damn intensely I’d have little interest, probably even annoyed as I tend to get with adversarial ROs (where they hate you and you have to do all the work to kissing up to them as they spit on you [negatively], because it obviously would be too much to ask for the RO to put in any effort), but that connection and knowing exactly how it is on her end is carrying it. And even so I’ve honestly gotten frustrated by her, the pushing away (not that I don’t get it), but it’s literally just my mental illness grinding against her identical mental illness
…there’s something funny about registering “wait, I’m the Red Flag RO”
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@bored93: Future w/Maddox
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This took me right back to my teenage years, devouring music magazines and fantasizing about being one of the artists I adored so much. I really love it, and now have a hankering to go and listen to 2000s indie rock. But also to fire up some Fleetwood Mac and Tina Turner. (And Paul’s my favourite so far, what a backstory.) I can’t wait for more.
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Aww look at that!! Very happy to hear you enjoyed my IF 
Yes, do listen to all of those things! All of them. Also, very glad you like Zima. While they’re extremely popular with the people who frequent my tumblr, here on the forum not so much
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coming forward as an admirer of zima 
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zima is for me just a big big red flag i dont mind zima in genrell for the story so far a good char will see how the story unfolds with zima in the future, but i am already self not very stabble when it comes to my mind and our mc also dosent seem very stable so far how the story goes atleast (my mc is not very stable haha) , than add zima to the mix and my mc would surly break back to old habbits better left behind in the clinic. also it years ago what zima does is still not healthy and will never be healthy (speaking from own experince) but blaming my mc for something where zima exactly know our past is a no go and normaly i cut such people directly out of my life dont need that when i have already own problems, but may i will change my opinion at some point we will see cant wait for more
I would give my life for Zima (hopefully not literally)
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Different audiences. That being said I like Zima as character, particularly male Zima since it is rare to see FtM trans people in a highly visible role as usually the most publicly visible, both on tv, and in some rather unfortunate political and cultural debates right now are MtF trans people.
That being said in-game Zima does not make it easy to love them. As for my mc specifically, well let’s just say it’s complicated and while I think they might, in time, be able to rekindle a friendship, my mc’s possible romantic feelings for Zima are basically non-existent in the present. However Zima was his first kiss and the first person he was in love with but that was quite literally a different Zima or rather, Remy, not Zima. So they will always have that kind of history.
I do like how well Zima and my mc play off each other both vocally, as described in the text, and in my headcanon as my mc and Zima both fit different archetypes of male beauty which is rather good marketing by Kalena.
Ironically, from browsing your Tumblr, it seems Zima has become far more sexually experienced in the intervening years than I headcanon my mc has. While my mc, in the present, is a rather good kisser I headcanon he has never moved beyond that to date and Leland is the first person he proposed that to. Wonder how Lin might react to taking mc’s virginity? 
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