[ SECRET POST #3189 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3189 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Come on, don't act like people that aren't involved in fandoms at all aren't massively judgmental and weirded out by outward expressions of fandom. I'm part of a writing club myself, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that if someone came in with a story about Sherlock and John, Specifically from the Modern-Day BBC Program, Kissing Each Other, the poor sap would get a reception of hard stares and stifled laughter.

It's simply a reality that fandom and ficwriting is seen by the majority as immature. Of course that's not true, but you're not going to have much luck convincing people. And that's why it pings so hard on the secondhand embarrassment, 'cause you know the love they're coming into it with and it's immediately denigrated and turned into a joke. Likely, a lot of us have been burned by that before, so of course it's embarrassing to see it happen to someone else.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

"Come on, don't act like people that aren't involved in fandoms at all aren't massively judgmental and weirded out by outward expressions of fandom."

Oh they are. I just think it's stupid to be judgmental at least.

It's one thing to be sympathetic to their situations. But it's another when people are going "Ugh, they shouldn't do that, Fandom should be kept to fandom". That's honestly what I see a lot.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

That's not what secondhand embarrassment is, though. The secondhand embarrassment comes from putting yourself in the other person's shoes and imagining the feelings they're going through when they're stared/laughed at, and inwardly being like "yep, not something I'd do myself, 'cause geeeeez."

They can do whatever they like, and more power to them if it doesn't bother them (though, in my experience, it almost always does-- or they're so socially unaware that they don't notice in the first place), but it makes me cringe real hard.

[(Anonymous)]

This. This exactly.

And I'm not even someone who keeps my fannish stuff a secret; my friends all know it's a thing I'm into. But I tend not to bring it up all that much, and when I do I play it casual, because I know that the more earnest and passionate I am about it the more I'll be making everyone uncomfortable.

I would pretty much never ask anyone outside of fandom to read my fanfic, let alone spring it on people in a writing circle. *shudders*