[ SECRET POST #5776 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5776 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Considering I just stepped back from my fandom because everyone else in it is so happy recently and it bums me out to watch it, I think I sort of feel you, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I get this. When I'm in an extended state of depression or anxiety I can't really enjoy anything or connect with people enjoying anything, so I hide under the covers for months at a time.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I have to leave fandom for literally years. It's gotten worse over the last 5 years, with rabid racists and misogynists on one hand, and raging antis and wokescolds on the other.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

[(Anonymous)]

Five, really? This stuff has been going on for at least 10ish years in my experience.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I remember what Pacific Rim fandom was like back in 2013-14.

[(Anonymous)]

"raging antis"

lol

[(Anonymous)]

Sympathies on the anxiety, OP. I have to take breaks too.

[rosehiptea]

I hear you. I'm finally reading and writing fanfiction again after a long time of staying away from it and it's kind of odd to be doing it. It was mostly depression that kept me out of it. (Also I'm 55 and feel like, well, maybe I really am too old for this, but that's a different story.)

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, with depression. And, you're never too old to fic! <3

[rosehiptea]

It's actually really helping my depression, fortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm only two years younger than you and I have no shame about fanfic whatsoever. You're fine.

[rosehiptea]

Thank you. I'd never tell anyone else they were too old to do anything, but sometimes I'm not as kind to myself.

[(Anonymous)]

I hadn't really been active in any fandom for years...except maybe random comments on YT on creators I'd followed/picked up since TGWTG days. Began reading fanfics occassionally a year or two before COVID. Joined fandom late 2020.

Sort of regret rejoining fandom. I made the decision to give it up a couple days ago. It's just too exhausting and isolating. Putting myself out there makes the loneliness a billion times more painful. Quietly observing or minding my own business only to dip in from time to time is super lonely but IDK it hits different. Like, at least when I'm quiet and ignorant to fandom it's because I'm not socializing. When I try to socialize and am met with silence/indifference/hostility </3 why did I make my presence known in the first place? All this to say...I get it OP. It's not easy living on earth.

[(Anonymous)]

Ughh, I get that. Honestly, I have never been great at socializing, online or IRL, but I managed to make a few friends back in the days. Maybe it's because I am older than the kids in my fandoms now, or maybe it's because internet has changed (nowadays there's no "forums" anymore, it's all "followers" and then there are bnfs with cults and others with no one to talk to!!) or maybe it's something else entirely, but I can't do that anymore I feel miserably isolated. Last time I tried was so bad that nowadays I make an effort to limit my "non-anonymous" online presence to a private twitter account with 50ish followers (most of whom don't speak my language) and a retro forum with 100ish active users.
In short: Thirding the feeling.

[(Anonymous)]

Basically the story of my life right there.