[ SECRET POST #4950 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4950 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Question

[tabaqui]

Um, maybe it's 'cause I'm old, or maybe it's 'cause I just don't notice (or really care), but never in my fandom life have i thought 'i don't think this person is neurotypical'.

I might think 'wow, this person is a little weird', or 'man, they are kinda one-note in their topics' or even 'holy fuck, annoying Star Wars!! is Awesome!!! fan is here again!'. Because, you know, 'neurotypical' people can be pretty fucking annoying and irritating.

Re: Question

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not old but that's not something I've ever thought of, either.

Usually when I come across something I find odd I think "that's a little weird, but whatever" and continue on with what I was doing and don't think of it again.

Re: Question

[tabaqui]

Exactly.

Re: Question

[(Anonymous)]

It's not really something I think of either.

There was one time when a mutual said they didn't really think the show Bones was that shippy. In my mind it was like a mini epiphany of, "I think this person might have AS." I didn't say anything about it, but about a year later they got officially diagnosed with AS. But I talked to that person a lot, and had never really thought about it until that moment.

Re: Question

[tabaqui]

Yes. It just doesn't cross my mind. I guess because I don't care? I mean - unless someone is in my face being a jerk, it's easy to just ignore stuff that's a little outside the box. And besides - this is fandom; everybody's a little weird in one way or another.

There's a site that tracks every outfit Sam and Dean have worn, sorted by type and color and what it all might mean. That person was/is (can't remember) on my LJ flist. Are they neurodivergent? Who knows! It makes no nevermind, to me.

Re: Question

[(Anonymous)]

I myself have some very particular fandom habits. Like, every time I get a new OTP I start a Word file where I rate the fanfic I read for that OTP, and write a brief synopsis for each fic. The Word file for my last OTP is 400 pages long. That's weird.

I am, to my awareness, neurotypical (in the strictest sense). I'm also obsessive, and a complete psychological mess. But I'm not autistic. *shrugs*

Re: Question

[tabaqui]

Heeeee!
That's kinda awesome. :D

Re: Question

[(Anonymous)]

So you make your rating file, and you're neurotypical, but someone thinking a show isn't shippy means they're not? That seems super subjective to me (otherwise everyone would have the same ships) so I don't get it.

Unless you're not the same person who commented above.

Re: Question

[(Anonymous)]

Bones is an INCREDIBLY shippy show (maybe the shippiest I've seen tbh). Like 50% of the screen time is spent on actively implying, highlighting, exploring, or dancing around Booth and Brennan's feelings for each other. To watch Bones and think it's "not that shippy" there has to be a certain blindness to the extremely numerous and unsubtle shippy implications that comprised a large chunk of the fabric of the show.

I asked my 65-year-old father who ships nothing (but knows about shipping because I talk about fannish stuff with him) how shippy he thought Bones was, just to see what a normie would say, and he was like, "It's basically the whole show."

Re: Question

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but your experience doesn't apply to all people. With Bones, did I see that they were clearly going for a tired will they/won't they ~sexual tension~ dynamic that lazy writers everywhere use whenever there's a man and woman in close proximity? Yes. But to me, that's not the same as being "shippy" because I personally didn't ship it.

It also doesn't mean that EVERYONE will even see the cliche writing the same way. People are from different cultures/backgrounds, were raised differently and don't all have the same context for how people who are romantically interested in each other act or "should" act, because it varies. Will MOST people probably pick up on it when something's written in the stereotypical heteronormative mainstream American way that translates to "these people want to date/sleep with each other" if they're familiar with American media/culture? Sure, but not everyone will, and it doesn't mean they're all "atypical". Honestly, putting any thought into how someone else interprets a TV show beyond "I don't see it that way, but hey, everybody's different", especially to the point where you wonder about their neurological status, is just fucking bizarre to me. (As is calling people "normies", WTF?)