[ SECRET POST #2693 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2693 ⌋

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Comments

Re: A former BNF:

[tenlittlebullets]

Yeah. It also makes it weirdly hard to make friends--like, friends you can have dumb filthy-minded capslocky conversations with on Skype at 3am, as opposed to people you're on friendly terms with--when everyone's decided you're Hot Shit and thus intimidating. Having an enthusiastic public is nice and makes for a really potent high in the short term, but building up a good group of core friends is way, way more fun and rewarding in the end, especially if you can find a few friends with interests/tastes close enough to your own that you end up engaging hardcore with each other's fic/art/other fan output. If you're at all close to your BNF-y friends, there is a good chance that you are a large part of what makes their fannish existence worthwhile, and that you've already got an audience that's way more valuable than the one you'd get through celebrity. If not, welp, I wish you all the luck in the world at cultivating awesome friendships, finding awesome people, and surrounding yourself with a cabal of filthy enablers and partners in crime. Because really, that's where it's at.

BNFdom, even minor-league BNFdom, also comes with issues about being in the limelight and subject to public scrutiny, but they would be less obnoxious if the fame were all it's cracked up to be. The point isn't to whine that being well known is actually really haaaard u guyz, it's that being well known does not guarantee quality fannish interaction or validation the way forming awesome friendships does.

(If you want the cheap ego boost without paying the price, try dallying in whichever megafandom of the moment catches your interest--the sheer quantity of feedback you get for fic that's remotely readable is kind of mind-boggling. With well-established big fandoms it can be hard to get your foot in the door, but if you can join in that first wave of enthusiasm for the Newest Big Shiny Thing, people will be reading and loving the shit out of everything they can get their hands on.)