[ SECRET POST #3431 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3431 ⌋

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

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[J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion]


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[Wil Wheaton]


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[Mughal-E-Azam]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm talking more about the part where OP implies that these problems exist because their friends are all students and therefore fools who don't understand ~THE REAL WORLD~. That association isn't really necessary to make the point that if OP isn't enjoying their fandom circles, they should leave.

[ibbity]

Tbh pretty much all of the people I have personally known in fandom who acted like that WERE students whose lives were pretty much as OP describes. Some of them grew out of it. Others I don't know what they are doing now. But as someone who has been in fandom half her life, the high school/college crowd do tend to be some of the highest scorers in the angry dramallama competition that some fandoms seem to be having much of the time, and honestly it HAS been my personal experience that the more irl responsibilities and experiences I have, the less I feel the need to spend all my energy yelling that some show made the WRONG characters bone.

[(Anonymous)]

Like it or not, for most people, transitioning from the life of a student to independent adult does change your priorities and your sense of scale. (Narrows it in some ways, broadens it in others.) It doesn't apply to all college students, but it certainly applies to enough that there's truth in the stereotype.

I'm a little less than three months from giving birth to my first child. You bet I have different priorities than I did in college!

[(Anonymous)]

But...that's pretty true. I was a pretty hardcore ~discourse~ person a few years back, when I honestly didn't have much else going on, and media seemed like the most important thing (I justified it by saying that everyone takes in media and that makes it relevant to everyone, and those that refused to engage were just closed-minded and probably racist or something)-- and then I graduated and got a job and moved on with my life. Now I kind of look back and cringe, because I really have come to understand how little media actually means to most people, and that it's completely fine to not care. I still love fandom stuff, but it just isn't as important anymore.