[ SECRET POST #5793 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5793 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No but I totally get what you mean, OP. Not regarding Nu Carnival (really I didn't play it because of how explicit it seemed to be, not in the sexy way, and too complicated to install; but I do know there's a guy who looks vaguely like Diluc so I did consider it one day) but there *are* some pieces of media with fandoms that are TOO full of horny fangirls/boys/what-have-you. Those in which you genuinely want to talk about some plot because you're emotionally invested, but everyone is yelling "_ is hot!!" . Nothing against it but I am the kind of person who feels the thrill over *writes 100-pages-long essay on how this blorbo is the blorboest ever because LORE* rather than squeeing.

This is, in fact, my biggest pet peeve with otome games fandoms like maybe I wouldn't dislike them so much if I could get past this pet peeve. On the other hand, BL manga fandom is surprisingly chill and comfy... for a porn genre. People actually discuss their innermost feelings occasionally. Crazy.

So, yeah. Even though everyone else seems to disagree, maybe I do get where you're coming from. Some fandoms ARE too full of squeeing for me as well

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DA
"Nothing against it but I am the kind of person who feels the thrill over *writes 100-pages-long essay on how this blorbo is the blorboest ever because LORE* rather than squeeing."

Writing 100 pages about anything relating to a fandom is the squee-y-ist thing any fan could do. Also imagine getting annoyed at PORN GAME fans for squeeing about HOT CHARACTERS.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like squeeing over hot characters is part of the point of otome games too.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - yeah but some fandoms stay on the "SQUEEEEEE SO HOT" side of things. Which, again, nothing against it. It's just not for me tbh

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DA

I don't know this game either, but I can relate to feeling like you want a lot more meta than you're finding, in a particular fandom. There's times when porn has been my fallback, because there's usually still some plot and I get to see other people's take on the characters in more depth than the formulaic praise in (inarticulate, short-form) squee.

Because you mentioned Diluc, I ran into this exact issue in relation to Genshin Impact recently. If you know of anywhere people go to write long essays about Enjou (for example), instead of calling him a himbo and gushing briefly about the hot, I would like to know that.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Hey, it's nice to know I am not alone in this boat! It's exactly this. Like, the porn IS hot, but I get the thrill of meta-ing and it's just not happening in some fandoms which are all "the porn is hot!!!!!!!" .

Oh, absolutely do. My go-to community is Genshin_Lore on Reddit (where you will find... extensive lore thesis on literally any character), but I do follow some accounts on Twitter for that exact purpose (though some haven't been active recently... windflowerlia is one of my faves :D !) and I recently created my own Tumblr blog to gush about the Han and Xing families (...again, their latest heir is pretty hot but HAVE YOU READ THE LORE?!?!?) talk about lore so maybe expect that.

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AYRT

You are definitely not alone. It's one of the complaints I've heard over and over in relation to so much of fandom being on Tumblr - most accounts there post short things and there often aren't equivalents to "this fandom has a library that everyone knows to hit up if they want essays of meta." If people *do* expound, they often do that in personal fanblog posts, and finding the things can be hard depending on stuff like whether the user is shy about tagging. Some fandoms get lucky, just because of who's in them - I remember Death Note has meta on Tumblr, for instance. And some fandoms are set because of their sheer age and size: Star Wars will not lack for articulate essay-writers. But one problem I haven't seen discussed much is that, if what you want to read is under a "read more" and it was posted by a deleted account, no matter how often the post was reblogged, the substance of it is gone. This disproportionately affects meta. And Tumblr is secretive about whether a user deleted their account or the platform shut it down without their input. I see fandoms there that have gone dormant, and a lot of content is gone because the fanblogs and RP blogs that posted it are gone.

Thank you for the recommendations, r/Genshin_Lore in particular looks fantastic. And if you feel like linking to your blog, would go. Would read. But I can understand if you're like, "gah, nooo."