i debated whether or not i wanted to reply to this bc in all honesty i'm very fatigued on both sides LOL. i think this is an issue with the internet being as big as it is which is even if it feels like you're writing something on a "personal" blog, as long as it's public it's not private. so people who hate stampgaze get tired of seeing people talk about it, and people who like stampgaze are tired of seeing hate for it. it's like that zoo tycoon image of over 200 orcas in a tank and one of the statuses is "orca #167 is unhappy" "suck it up orca #167" the internet is now a cramped orca tank where it’s much easier to run into what you don’t want to see and harder to curate what you do.
i personally prefer to keep my fandom blogs to things i like, and i prefer to save kvetching to my private accounts/one on one convos with friends.

i will say before i get into my own personal opinion, i’m not surprised that stampgaze is the way it is when nightow said he would never approve of an anime that was 1-1 like his manga. we were never going to get trigun maximum the anime. whereas some creators are only comfortable with their work being adapted if they have something close to full veto control, nightow had the exact opposite where he was watching the episodes knowing as little as anyone else.

anyways all of that being said…maybe i had more fun with stampgaze when i realized “oh, this is fanfic. this is orange’s trigun fanfic.” this is dangling keys in front of a baby’s face. is it enriching? no. am i entertained? yes.

i love to watch movies and for the last 3 years it’s been my goal to watch 365 new movies every year. since 2023 i’ve watched over 1,225 new movies so far. i like art films. i like nuanced movies. i like movies with complex emotions that rip my heart. but i also like corny flicks. sometimes i like nicholas cage’s face/off or the rock. i think it’s important that not everything has to be good or High Art, sometimes it just has to be entertaining and fun.

do i agree with everything that happened in stampgaze? no. do i like everything that happened in stampgaze? no. but did i have fun and was i entertained? yes. and sometimes that’s all i need.