[ SECRET POST #6385 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6385 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, fandom is where we explore fandom.

Which is not to say there isn't a place within fandom for exploring issues, sociopolitical and otherwise. There is, and it's good there is. But no, fandom is not "where we explore issues", it is where we smoosh our favourite fictional characters together and make them kiss. The clue is in the name.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, saying 'fandom is for kissing' isn't really any more accurate than 'fandom is for exploring issues' personal or societal or moral or whatever

Fandom is where we take our favorite fictional characters and make them do whatever we want, which is sometimes kissing each other, sometimes not kissing each other and going on adventures as friends, and sometimes lecturing their medieval peers about what demisexuality is. But claiming fandom is any one particular activity at all isn't really true

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the "making them kiss" thing was obviously tongue-in-cheek.

Fandom is about making our favourite fictional characters do whatever floats our fannish boats, kissing or otherwise. The point I was making is that it is about making our favourite fictional characters do things. My argument with the OP saying that "fandom is where we explore issues" is that it's not: it's where we explore fictional characters.

Sometimes issues are part of that, sometimes it's not. But "exploring issues", while a part of fandom sometimes, is not and never has been the purpose of fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

NA - Seconding all of this. And I understood you were being tongue in cheek with the whole "making them kiss" thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Not too long ago, and still now in the view of many people outside fandom, making your favorite characters kiss fell into the category of "exploring issues" if those characters were two men or two women.

[(Anonymous)]

The opinions of people outside fandom could not be less relevant to the question of what fandom is for.

And even back in the days where queer fannish content was being ostracised and erased in wider fandom spaces, those of us into it cultivated our own corners for that content precisely so people who just wanted gay smooches did NOT have to deal with the "issue" of it.