[ SECRET POST #3132 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3132 ⌋

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Comments

You sound normal to me.

[philippos42]

For a fan? You are normal.

Seriously, there's almost always a huge number of people all the way from the fringes of fandom to its core (to even fans-turned-pro in some subcultures like comic books) who don't really get the source material (but enjoy what they do get of it).

You may be right about your interpretations. Maybe other fans don't get it.

Or you may be seeing things in a distorted way, which everyone else thinks is bizarre.

I was in a fandom once for a character that had a whole lot of different "canon" and "BNF" interpretations. One BNF had been writing her fannish reinterpretation of the core concept before I was even born.

And people would wander in from different places with different interpretations. Some of them really weird. Like is-this-a-troll weird. (I think I was one of them.)

I learned to accept that there were natural differences of opinion, and I learned to respect people I had disagreed with. And I modified a lot of my interpretations over time. And to get there, I still went through years of saying silly stuff like, "But guys, don't you think the X is [obscure term I probably don't understand] Y?" I learned, however slowly.

And you know? I think in a different fandom with different people, I might have turned into a flame-war-happy, grudge-holding jerk.

Re: You sound normal to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, a lot of the time as a fan you're whistling in the wind. It's a rare occasion where the rest of the fandom chimes in and agrees with you.

In my current fandom, I can name maybe three other people who ship what I ship, but at the same time acknowledge that one of the characters is mostly a dick to the other. I'm thrilled by this happening, but it also feels... wrong? Like I'm not used to it. Too good to be true.

I'm used to seeing posts with tens of thousands of notes either woefully misunderstanding canon (because of cultural differences, mainly) or about things in my fandom that I have no interest in. For even a few people to like the same things I do and see them roughly in the same way is getting close to a miracle.