[ SECRET POST #3192 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3192 ⌋

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

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I wish I could motivate myself to stick around in fandoms long enough to get further into canons, write well-researched fic, and leave comments on fic or meta without feeling like I don’t have anything to add apart from "oooh, I liked it!" and how I found it IC or accurate without any insights on what IC or accurate mean.

Either I don’t love canon enough, so I leave that to the BNFs and active fans and slowly lose interest, or I do, but I’m too lazy and end up procrastinating, then hop to a different fandom and lose my swing.

Re: Transcript by OP

[silverr]

Do you feel you HAVE to do those things?

[(Anonymous)]

If you haven't been in fandom long then don't stress about it! Maybe you just haven't found the right fandom for you. I know I drifted/lurked/left single word "reviews" (ie, "Update!") for years before finally experiencing something I wanted to write fic for.

And so what if you never get to that stage? Life is more than fandom and after having written stuff, I can say knowing people read and liked my works is heartwarming enough. Especially as I lurk in more fandoms than I participate in.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who stays long term in fandoms (think 3-10 years) you're living the dream. You have fun, you miss out on drama and you always have things to read. You don't deal with bullshit like a BNF bullying you because you accidentally pissed them off or other mean girls bullshit straight out of a high school. I'd say your method is really ideal. I'd love to do that, because as someone on the complete other side of the scale (long term person who writes a lot of pieces and does a lot for the fandom) it really isn't worth it in amounts of time devoted and what you actually get back.

[elaminator]

If you aren't feeling it, you aren't feeling it; it happens. If you actually want to experience those things then I hope you eventually find something that will capture your imagination, but there's no use worrying about it in the meantime.

Fandom will stick around even if you don't! You can always go back if you choose to. (I do, sometimes.)

[solticisekf]

Talking to people who have a deep knowledge of canon actually makes me nervous because I feel that my arguments are weak in comparison or that these people, the ones who know everything there's to know in the fandom, have very strong ideas about what is what and are not to be swayed or argued with.

Of course the other thing is that I'm awful in memorizing details so I don't feel like an expert even in fandoms where there's not much to learn to begin with. It's similar to how you read something and 'grok' it, understand it, but as you're telling about it to someone else you can't recall any actual points an author's made. While some people are very good at the stracturing and the analysing of the info - or at least are sure of their facts.

[(Anonymous)]

When it comes to comments, heck, you don't need to know the canon indepth to talk about what you like. You can always say stuff like "this is a really nice turn of phrase" or "this made me laugh." Then again, there's absolutely nothing wrong with just "ooh, I liked it!" either. That kind of thing always makes me happy to hear.