[ SECRET POST #4521 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4521 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/f74DcMw.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, are you me? Last year was a clusterfuck of Do Not Want for me in terms of canon for my fandoms, and I'm honestly just now starting to get over it six months later. I had to kind of move on from fandom to other things, but I miss that escape that fandom gave me.

[rosehiptea]

I am really sorry that happened to you OP. I hope you find a fandom that's on its way up and has something good for you.

[(Anonymous)]

This was me with Endgame. I'm honestly shocked and kind of disturbed by how much legitimate rage I feel about it. Even still! I have random crying spells about it, and it's not just like... getting teary. It's full-on hysterics. My twitter is a clusterfuck of multi-tweet chains about how wrong it was and how much of a disservice it was to the characters and the fans and I just... I can't let it go. I don't know why I'm so incredibly affected. I don't want to be.

My husband's nearing the end of his rope with me, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Same here! I haven't had crying jags, but I'm still surprised by how strong my feelings about it are. I guess I maybe didn't realize just how important certain things were to me until they got jossed.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, this season was rushed as fuck. The writers had a choice, and they chose to rush. True, they don't owe anyone anything, but a little consideration would have gone a long way.

Hope things get better for you, OP, IRL and in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol it's okay, I was stretched incredibly thin last year when Infinity War came out and actually, like, almost had a panic attack in the theater when a character I'm incredibly attached to just dissolved. Many years ago, I was upset for days because the finale of a show I was watching felt really unsatisfying and I was going through a lot at that time. This is normal, I promise, bb <3

[(Anonymous)]

I've been feeling like that myself. I feel manipulated when creators want to get people invested in their characters and story and then do a 180 on their character development just to kill them off with very unsatisfying explanations.

Example: If Jaime is still the season 1 Jaime with no morals who only cared about his family, then why did you spend so many seasons telling me he was more complex and building his adorable friendship with Brienne only to have him take a massive dump on that, backflipping all the way down to KL to die with Cersei who he'd already left?

[(Anonymous)]

This was me with ME: Andromeda. It was #1 on my Reasons To Stay Alive list.

It was disappointing.

I haven't been excited for a new thing, or disappointed by an ending, since. So I guess that's a trade off...

[(Anonymous)]

It took me a YEAR to finish Andromeda, because I was forcing myself through that horrible, horrible game and I finally gave up literally right before the end game sequence. And then I went back and... the end game sequence was exactly what I wanted the rest of the fucking game to be like, and I felt renewed and as if it was fine.... and then that's it. No more.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah I dropped it just around the New Tachunka area for a few years. Then I picked it up again and replayed it. It's...fine. It's just so overstuffed with junk sidemissions and the companions don't have the same spark as others in the franchise or Dragon Age so... yeah, the game's fine...perfectly enjoyable if you divorce it from ME.

[51stcenturyfox]

I totally understand this feeling, OP.

I try to never get my hopes too high for other people's stories to tickle me in the righ way, but it still sucks having a bad time IRL and feeling let down by fiction TOO.

[(Anonymous)]

That sucks, OP, and I'm sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had the exact same thing. It happened a few years back when things weren't great IRL either. I just got so dejected by fiction. Now I try to not get so invested and just watch and read low-stakes stuff or silly stuff when I'm in a not-so-great place.

[(Anonymous)]

I know that feel.

[(Anonymous)]

I was like that with Infinity War and the death of Loki. I'm still pissed about it. I heard beforehand that he was going to die in the first 10 minutes in a really stupid way and started to get actual anxiety leading up to it. I thought to myself it was incredibly ridiculous of me to be feeling that way. As in heart palps, inability to concentrate and focus, trouble sleeping in the week leading up to the movie. Then they did it and I wanted to just walk out of the cinema.
Then Endgame happened and they showed similar disrespect IMO towards Steve and Bucky and it made me feel better. I love Steve and Bucky too and realised that the writers just kinda suck.
I'm not a fan of GOT but I understand people's utter fury over what they did to the characters and how they messed them completely in the last series.

[sparklywalls]

I know how you feel anon, maybe not that extreme but what they did to Loki has definitely made me sour on the MCU. I've spent the past year in a fog of not really caring that much.

It's a shame because I kept trying to remind myself that I DO like other characters but there's still residual bitterness that even the other perma dead characters in IW and Endgame at least got to play in the sandbox for longer than five minutes. So many fan theories and fics do a lot more interesting things than basically "fridge" (I know, he's male... but the Russos straight up said it was to fuel Thor's pain) Loki.

Also one of my other faves IS Thor and I'm not happy with what he has become either.

I'm really sad that a couple of character decisions can kill off my enthusiasm for something that meant so much to me. Worse still I have to hear how great IW or Endgame was all the time and I feel like I can't out myself as thinking it could've been done better.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeesh. Yeah, all this just reminds me to never forget that escapism is good until it becomes a crutch.

[(Anonymous)]

For me it was Game of Thrones and The Magicians... two things I was looking forward to so much and expected to distract me from my life.

[catdetective]

Oof, I feel you, OP.

Super late reply

[(Anonymous)]

But I wanted to say, I've been there too. Last year was rough for me, I couldn't even enjoy fandom stuff at all. I've slowly been able to get back into it, but in the distant past there were times when fandom was one of the highlights of my day. And if some drama or crap happened in the show or elsewhere it really put a damper on everything, kinda feels like being kicked when you are already down. Hope you feel better soon OP.