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[ SECRET POST #4294 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4294 ⌋

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Maybe 15 years ago, but fandom (and the internet as a whole) is mainstream as ever.

10 years ago

Time is an illusion

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(Anonymous) - 2018-10-07 00:43 (UTC) - Expand

Known in the mainstream? Yes, totally. But I can get why OP feels that anything produced about fandom for the mainstream is somewhat inauthentic. Maybe it's the fear of it being packaged in a way that's more understandable, or is for, like, being gawked at by people who aren't in the loop. Like, Fangirl is a great example, Rowell knows fandom and is doing the most authentic job she can - but read by people who aren't in fandom, it arguably still comes across as Weird Thing Weird People Do? Or maybe it doesn't, and I'm being too pessimistic, but I fear hearing the goddamn Big Bang Theory laughtrack every time I talk about my interests.

NAYRT but to me, it may be mainstream within fandom spaces as a whole, ie cons, etc, but I am pretty sure if I said to someone, "Hey I write my own stories about books/movies/comics/etc," it would still be seen as weird.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-10-07 00:31 (UTC) - Expand

I don't know what you mean by "mainstream as ever". More mainstream than it's ever been? Yes, perhaps. But that's only relatively speaking. I wouldn't call fandom mainstream by a long shot. It's one thing to enthuse with a co-worker about [random tv show] over your lunch break, but that's a fairly light participation in fandom. You try telling acquaintances in non-fandom spaces about your John/Sherlock slashfic exchange or admitting that you spent $100 on Funko Pop figures and you'll soon discover that it's a lot less mainstream than you think.

I would say that the basic concept of "shipping" and fandom built around shipping is fairly entrenched as part of pop culture at this point. IDK

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I sometimes feel the same way, especially if the fandom-obsessed characters are written as extremely obsessive people with no life outside of fandom. On the other hand, I think younger me would've appreciated reading about fandom in books. It would've felt like my hobbies were valid and I enjoy fandom books where online friends are shown to be just as supportive as IRL friends (is the argument that online friends aren't real friends still a thing?).

Also, I just reread Fangirl today and I enjoyed it more than I did the first time I read it, but damn does Cath need help.

It's still a thing, but when one of my coworkers was almost having to move to several different places...I had someone in each of those places that would be willing to answer the questions she had and that was really helpful so...yeah.

I didn't realise it until I read this secret, but that's it.

That's exactly my problem with this, too.

ia so hard. i hate the breaking of the 4th wall.

i wish we could go back to simpler times.

We've crossed that bridge a long time since.

This is me, too, OP. It's definitely not rational, but it's how we feel anyway.

That's why I like it here. F!S is my favourite, cozy place to visit. I stay away from Tumblr and Reddit. I like Dreamwidth.org a lot more.

I kinda feel you. It's like a bridge that shouldn't have been crossed and has made fans super entitled.

It just makes me uncomfortable? Not because save space or whatever, but I usually die a little bit of second hand embarassment (I do have a very low threshold, though).

I've not read that one (and never will), but How To Repair A Mechanical Heart was honestly enough.

Sounds reasonable to me. But then, I'm weird because I recently started feeling very possessive within my own fandom. Like... this is MINE, what are all of you doing here? Go away, you're going to ruin it! As if it's not just as much theirs as it is mine -- which is to say it belongs to no one but the creators.

Books that reflect the real fandom experience are yet to be written. Everything that's been published (including the much-venerated Fangirl) are terrible beyond words.

Just curious, but what should a book have to reflect the fandom experience? Parts of it were terrible, but I thought Fangirl did an okay job of depicting a person who uses fandom as a coping mechanism. Ship It, another fandom book, was super cringey, but I read and thought, "Yeah, these types of fans definitely exist."

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(Anonymous) - 2018-10-06 23:08 (UTC) - Expand

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sniktboom - 2018-10-07 15:53 (UTC) - Expand

Agreed. Fangirl was just... ugh. And honestly it wasn't even the portrayal of fandom in it that bothered me, it was the forced romance.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-10-07 03:55 (UTC) - Expand

I'm in a different frame of mind. I don't mind fandom in mainstream but I fucking wish people would leave the actual creators, actors etc out of it. I miss the fourth wall more than fandom being a quiet corner.

This. I both love and hate that creators are so accessible now, but it only seems to lead to bullying of them.

Twitter is the worst thing to happen to fandom.

I just want a work where people in fandom are shown as people A lot of depictions of fandom show the most extreme corners. yes those corners exist but... is it surprising that people involved don't want to be idk...depicted as their biggest assholes?

I want to see where a person in fandom not a point of humor or mockery(Big Bang Theory) or not disturbing or awkwardly obsessed, it's just a thing. Like "oh hey I like sports." "Cool I'm into writing about fiction I like" "cool, I'm into painting.

You know?

I understand feeling that way, but unless you deliberately tell people that you're 'in fandom', it's still your secret, that you can cuddle close and pet, Anon! :D

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