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okay but I kinda do that tho way I do it might actually be worse. cause I won't watch a show or anything but I’ll either watch random edits on YouTube or read crossover fanfic (with a show/fandom that i’m already familiar with and the new one) as a way to figure out the vibes of the characters and then I'll just read regular fanfic for whatever show it is and if I get confused by things I'll go find the fandom wiki and get my answers from there
you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question