Fandom *sigh*
Sep. 22nd, 2010 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxI was going to post some stuff regarding metaphor and Spuffy, etc. But, honestly, emotions in fandom seem to be running really high right now so I don't think a post would help. (And it wasn't important anyway. So no big deal and no big loss.)
All I can say is that, please, everyone cut everyone some slack, okay? A little generosity in fandom could go a long way. People think and feel different things. People don't agree. That's okay!
Okay?
And if people disagree about a character or a plot twist or a ship, don't take that as personal criticism. The character, the plot twist, the ship, the show or the comic are not you. And if someone sees it differently than you do, it's OKAY. It's just a plot, a character, a ship, a comic, a plot twist. It's not you... even if sometimes we identify so closely with our various obsessions that it feels like it. Such is the crazy of fandom. Embrace it. We've all been there. It's just that sometimes that identification with the character, the ship, the plot twist, the meta, the show, the comic causes blurred lines where things feel personal when they aren't and things become personal when they shouldn't be.
It's just fandom! Go take a gander at fandom_wank. All corners of it are full of kerfuffles, feuds, hard feelings. So, you know what? Everyone deserves some slack. We're all a bit looney here. :)
Take a deep breath, try to be kind, and remember -- it's only a show, a story, a character, a ship, a comic, or a plot twist.
All I can say is that, please, everyone cut everyone some slack, okay? A little generosity in fandom could go a long way. People think and feel different things. People don't agree. That's okay!
Okay?
And if people disagree about a character or a plot twist or a ship, don't take that as personal criticism. The character, the plot twist, the ship, the show or the comic are not you. And if someone sees it differently than you do, it's OKAY. It's just a plot, a character, a ship, a comic, a plot twist. It's not you... even if sometimes we identify so closely with our various obsessions that it feels like it. Such is the crazy of fandom. Embrace it. We've all been there. It's just that sometimes that identification with the character, the ship, the plot twist, the meta, the show, the comic causes blurred lines where things feel personal when they aren't and things become personal when they shouldn't be.
It's just fandom! Go take a gander at fandom_wank. All corners of it are full of kerfuffles, feuds, hard feelings. So, you know what? Everyone deserves some slack. We're all a bit looney here. :)
Take a deep breath, try to be kind, and remember -- it's only a show, a story, a character, a ship, a comic, or a plot twist.
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Date: 2010-09-23 02:48 am (UTC)*steals from the Project Runway musical* It's faaaaandom! It's fandom! It's fandom! *twirls*
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Date: 2010-09-23 02:56 am (UTC)That was when Project Runway was still interesting!
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Date: 2010-09-23 03:03 am (UTC)I think that Andre's massive meltdown could explain how I feel about fandom sometimes. "And I was standing... in the middle of Chinatown... screaming at the top of my lungs.... NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" LOL. :D
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Date: 2010-09-23 03:05 am (UTC)I go back and forth between thinking the DH marketing people are morons and/or geniuses. I get the impression they're deliberately poking ships to get buzz. Kinda sad, but right up their (and Joss's) alley. Unfortunately for them, any buzz is good buzz doesn't really work as well in the internet age.
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Date: 2010-09-23 04:03 am (UTC)Thanks for this post.
<--wishes it were that easy...but doesn't think it will be even if it should be.
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Date: 2010-09-23 04:22 pm (UTC)Me too.
Hopefully some breathing space can help...?
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Date: 2010-09-23 04:09 am (UTC)I suppose that we as nuts should stick together, in order to better form a smooth blend - because who likes crunchy peanut butter? (Unless by saying that, I've just pissed off the crunchy peanut butter contingent...)
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Date: 2010-09-23 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-23 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-23 06:44 am (UTC)Everyone deserves some slack. We're all a bit looney here.
Take a deep breath, try to be kind, and remember -- it's only a show, a story, a character, a ship, a comic, or a plot twist. And let's not forget it.
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Date: 2010-09-23 07:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-23 08:15 am (UTC)and it scares the shit out of me because I haven't been there and some of my favorite fandom people are arguing and I don't know what to do to make them stop.
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Date: 2010-09-23 01:02 pm (UTC)This. I just don't understand how that even happened. A belief that there hasn't been a shippy Spuffy moment in any of the interaction so far between Spike and Buffy in the comics doesn't mean that those beliefs are a direct attack on someone clinging to any thread they can that there's still something to hope for. I didn't see anything either, but for me, it's merely a personal belief that Spuffy is dead, long live Independent Spike!
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Date: 2010-09-23 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-23 05:09 pm (UTC)I blame part of it on the nature of the interwebs in and of itself, and of online journals in particular. A private journal in a public space is a very odd hybrid that sometmes yeilds surprising results.
Thanks for this common-sense approach.
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Date: 2010-09-23 05:32 pm (UTC)Yes, this.
Wonderful post! :)