[ SECRET POST #2710 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2710 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[riddian]

No. Love is fandom's lifeblood. Even if you are the only person writing fics for some obscure thing nobody else has even heard of, as long as you are making things and thinking about it and enjoying yourself that fandom is alive. (If more than a little lonely, I grant you.) I don't need anyone else to "validate" my ships. Nobody else can tell me that the things I like are right or wrong. They don't need to be relevant, whatever the hell that means. They just need to be things I enjoy.

You are indeed desperate in an ugly way, and it is because you have exactly the wrong attitude. There is no competition. There is no war but the one inside your head, and you should probably stop fighting it. It sucks when nobody else likes the stuff you like, but you're gonna have to just deal with it.

Also, stop using the word "literally" wrong.

[dreemyweird]

This comment is brilliant.

>Love is fandom's lifeblood

YES THANK YOU. Oh my God, I can't emphasize this enough. As someone who runs the sole fannish blog for one fandom, is the only active fan of another fandom, and starts dabbling in the third fandom that has approximately three and a half participants, it gives me the warm fuzzies when people say things like this <3

[riddian]

Thanks very much! I was remembering back in high school when I used to watch Knight Rider at 3 AM on the Sci Fi Channel and was pretty sure I was the only person who still cared about it and writing fanfiction for it in my notebook. As far as I was concerned, my scribbles and DVR-ing absolutely constituted an active fandom!

Discovering ffnet was a godsend though, so I do somewhat understand where the OP is coming from. But viewing it as some kind of popularity contest makes me so incredibly sad, because it shouldn't be about how many people agree with you. It should be about interacting with something you love in your own unique way.

[(Anonymous)]

*purrs and clutches Knight Rider DVDs*

(I still have such a crush on KITT omg.)

[riddian]

HIGH FIVE, ANON. KITT was my first fandom crush and I still love him. :3

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with everything except "Love is fandom's lifeblood".

I think shared squee is fandom's lifeblood. As the saying goes - it's sad to squee alone. If you're the only person squeeing about character X or pairing Y, then you're not part of the fandom community in the same way you are if you know even 2 or 3 other fans with the same oddball tastes.

It's uncommon to be the only person who loves a rarepair, but it happens (especially in small fandoms), and it's damned lonely.

That said, OP, if fandom is making you this miserable - GET OUT before you start hating the canon, too. Find something else to love. You'll be happier.