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F!S Anon Meme (the Tenth?)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it!

List of General Threads (for easy access!)
a. Vid Rec thread
b. Positivity thread
c. What do you think of other F!S members?
d. Best Comments thread
e. Canceled Shows thread
f. Confessions thread
g. TMI thread
h. Which fictional character would you be...
i. "Is this offensive?"
j. In the good ol' days of fandom...
k. Popular fanfic you don't like
l. Really weird things you read in fanfics

Comments

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and in the same batch they made that really pointless nasty jab at Deanna Troi on a secret where it really wasn't needed or wanted. I was so glad that like three people went "eyeroll" at them for that.

They've done a few similar things. I kinda got the feeling they were a pretty mean-spirited and unempathetic person.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

I was the OP of the Troi secret and when I saw those responses I just laughed. I love you guys.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[skippydelicious]

I'm just curious about that, when did Troi get re-evaluted? Last time I was in TNG Trek fandom she was still, rightly, getting blamed for steering the Saucer!Prise into a planet and being vacuous about sensing "something". When did we start being nice to her? Also, does TNG fandom still find Geordi creepy?

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

It's harder to take that stuff seriously so long after the series is over. A lot of it seems more like a charming oddity of the series than something that she deserves hate for. and Marina Sirtis is really cool.

Geordi is creepy forever though.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[skippydelicious]

Oh yeah, not arguing over Sirtis. She's always been fine, character is not actor and all that, should go without saying, just Troi always seemed utterly useless at best in the show. Ah, well TNG was amongst my first fandoms, you never properly forget your early fan!rage.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

Most people outgrow their early fanrage, not remember it forever.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[skippydelicious]

Viva diversity then.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

Most people DO think Troi was useless in the role she was given. Most people also think she was a nice and likeable person who doesn't deserve any hate.

They also think that hating on characters in fandoms that are long past gone off the air is childish and stupid -- you hate when a fandom is new to get your frustration out of your system, then you start trying to think about it and figure out ways to interpret the canon and the flaws in the canon in fresh and interesting ways.

Also, spewing hate randomly in a secret that has nothing to do with her uselessness or usefulness, and is all about her chocolate fetish, is viewed as being in bad taste, obnoxious, and emblematic of the type of fan who has to spread their whining all over everything. People don't disapprove of character hate because they think the character is actually great but that non-great characters deserve hate, they disapprove of it because character-hate is immature and tacky, doubly so for old fandoms. At least on FS.

FWIW, very few people hate on Wesley Crusher either. It's just viewed as a sort of empty and pointless and annoying thing to do.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I don't know what fandom thinks and I don't care, I just watched TNG and I like Troi.

Re: What do you think about other F!S members?

[(Anonymous)]

To me, it just seemed an unnecessarily harsh comment on a funny and positive secret about Troi. Y'know, if it were a critical secret or something else looking to more deeply analyze her character, and you had commented with what you did just now, it would be pertinent to the secret.

But it was a lighthearted secret and it seems like a big overreaction to just jump right in with a "lolz but she's an idiot" comment. What's the relevance of that sort of middle-school level joke?