[ SECRET POST #5983 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5983 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[tabaqui]

Your English is great, OP!
And hey - you like what you like. Just enjoy, and don't worry about anybody else.

[(Anonymous)]

I always feel like beautiful high quality amazing works don't have room for me to fan, whereas mediocre shows have room for fandom to improve and expand on them. I like my fandoming to be character explorations and wacky paths off of dropped stories or throwaway lines or something.

(Also your English is great!)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly! Very high quality media doesn't tend to get a lot of fandom because there's not so many weird little inconsistencies and gaps and problems to lure fans in. And the exceptions (like, say Jane Austen) often lure fans in with an adaptation which of course leaves things out and adds things in and shows things differently to how you might imagine, thereby making room for fannish activity, even if the original is really good.

[(Anonymous)]

Saying as a person who is into "prestige" shows - there isn't a lot fandoms around them. So you are lucky!

[comet_scout]

Me too OP. I can engage in high-quality works and even appreciate them, but what really gets to me, gets to me regardless of quality. Read/watch/play and talk about what you like OP, fandom is for fun anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

FWIW, I'm someone who primarily watches and prefers "prestige" television, but when it comes to things I get fannish about, it's almost never the prestige stuff. For me, prestige shows tend to feel too dense and precise and locked in to being exactly what they are; I don't tend to feel like there's room for me to take the material canon has given me and fuck around with it. Or like, obviously I could do it, but the canonical text doesn't seem to invite that form of engagement the way other shows sometimes do.

Also, your English is great, OP! You have nothing to feel self-conscious about; you're crushing it.

[(Anonymous)]

Your English is great!

I'm similar to you in that I can rarely get into the stuff that everybody likes, but I disagree that those things are objectively good. To me, there's no such thing as objective when it comes to entertainment. If someone is entertained by/enjoys a book/movie/tv show, then it's good *to them* and it doesn't really matter what some "authority" thinks about the subject.

It's like food. People like different things, and even if something is super popular and loved by lots of people, there are going to be people who hate it. It doesn't make any of them wrong, it's just a difference in taste/preferences.

IDK, I just find "good" (or "high quality" or whatever other adjectives you want to use) a vague, nebulous concept because who gets to decide what is good and what isn't?

When it comes to a movie, for example, someone might be calling something good when what they mean is "it conforms to these specific standards of production" or whatever, but if that's the case, say that. It doesn't automatically make it *good* because different people are going to have different criteria for what makes something good. (Hell, when you look at the dictionary definition for "good", it references "excellent" and "of superior quality" and when you look at those definitions, they just refer back to each other; there's not any real definition for those terms so it's all subjective.)

Sorry for the tangent, but anyway. You shouldn't feel bad or weird or anything for liking stuff that's not popular. It's what resonates with you, so you should just enjoy it. :D

[(Anonymous)]

Most things I've found as "high quality" stuff I tend to...not have anyone to talk to with. LOL

I don't know if it's a choice to not find people to talk to or more just a vibes thing (I see/hear the conversations but based on vibes I have nothing to contribute so I dont join)?

Like, when I was super into "The Sopranos" it was a few years after the show was complete and way before it gained a new spike in popularity. Around 2019 seemed like when interest in the show was picking up again.
And aside from watching a lot of video essays about/relating to the show, I wasn't really involved in the discussions and memes.

You do you, OP.