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…ok fine I’ll bite.
Yeah, I kind of can’t not do this.
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Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.
Fandom is people you don’t tell your mother you’re meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.
Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.
Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky’s law and Godwin’s law and Murphy’s law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you’ve ever had them.
Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn’t care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.
Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.
Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.
Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.
Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.
Fandom is where you found yourself.
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I see fandom talk. So here’s my two cents.
If you’ve recently gotten into a fandom, obviously it’s going to be hard to assimilate because you haven’t been able to do as much as others who are present within the fandom. That doesn’t necessarily make the fandom elitist or cruel. Some people in the fandom may be intentionally cruel, but since when aren’t fandoms like that? I’ve been a part of at least three different fandoms, and they’re all similar in structure. There’s the people who have been obsessed since as long as they can remember, have shit tons of merchandise, etc. There’s the people in the middle who don’t have a lot of merchandise, but have a vast knowledge on the subject like the before. And then there’s the people who recently joined the fandom and are still learning more about it each day.
Since you’re on different levels, it’s hard to communicate. Especially in the Zelda fandom. Some people have defeated all the games, some people have only completed one. No one’s saying you’re less of a Zelda fan (some might, but again those are EXTREMES in the fandom not everyone), but you’re not going to know as much about the entire Zelda series as a whole as someone who’s played the majority of the games. You have to expect that. It’s going to happen.
Coming from a Zelda fan who is certainly too obsessed to save his life with, I don’t care if you’ve just started the fandom or anything. I’m not going to jump down your throat about it..If you haven’t played it, I’ll get you into it. I’ll sit there and help you when you need it. I certainly will not be rude to people who are just starting, or less obsessed than I am. I associate nicely will all levels because we’re all fans of the same thing…
^This. Not just for the Zelda fandom but any fandom in general. (Though for Zelda, I just play for the pretty graphics /shallow and will now draw Zelda fanart and like it)
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- favorite character
- least favorite character
- prettiest character
- character I wanna marry
- favorite pairing
- favorite episode
- unpopular opinion
Do it please! I need to do something as a reward for finishing, not one, but TWO, Christmas cards! :D
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