[ SECRET POST #6633 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6633 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

Totally fair.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! It was such a big deal for me when I first got online (when I started university) and found that there were nerdy women EVERYWHERE! I had previously only met one apart from me, she was my only female friend in high school. And I have been happily messing around in fandom ever since.

[(Anonymous)]

I would not describe fandom as being filled with people who are constantly disappointed in media. Disappointed with aspects of media, sure, but the entire reason people are in fandom is because we're really, really into the media we consume. We obsess over it. We spend hours upon hours thinking about, discussing, and creating for it. We spend hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on it. Really, we love it to pieces, even if there some things about it that we think could be better.

Are there women creating things because they're disappointed by what's out there? Sure. But I think they're much more likely to be creating original art.

[(Anonymous)]

I both agree and disagree - we're really, really into the media but with a little twist it could be so much better. There's a lot of things I've watched or read because I'm interested in what fandom will do with it rather than enjoying the thing as it is.

[feotakahari]

It’s a common argument that things people actually like get less fic. It’s argued that people just enjoy the stuff they like, whereas they write fix-fic for the stuff that frustrates them. I’ve never compared numbers to see if this is accurate. (If it’s the case, then why are there so many Tolkien fanfics?)

[(Anonymous)]

This is absolutely true for me. When I really love a piece of media and am satisfied with it, I have zero interest in reading or writing fic for it because there's nothing it left me wanting. Fic is for the cases where there was something I wanted out of canon that it didn't give me.

Like, I love Nirvana in Fire to death. I have no interest in looking for fic for it because it wrapped up SO well that I was 100% happy with all of the individual character arcs and the larger plot as a whole.

[(Anonymous)]

Given the amount of canon het fic that exists I don’t think this is true, I think there’s plenty of both types of fans. Fans that love something will add scenarios to a canon they like and disappointed fans will fix something they didn’t like and in my experience the number of fans doing either seems pretty equal.

And as someone who is currently reading through a whole bunch of ‘everyone lives AU’ in Tolkien/Hobbit fandom I’m not doing so because I hate the canon or was disappointed that the heirs of Durin died, I just want to self-indulgently roll around in an AU where they didn’t. I can enjoy and like canon and have fun with an AU, these two things are not mutually exclusive.

[(Anonymous)]

You do you OP but I’m here in fandom because I love the stories I consumed and wanted to play with them some more. I’ve been disappointed in small aspects here and there sure but for the most part I’m here because of love not the need to fix something I don’t consider broken to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

This. If I'm disappointed in something I just stop consuming it. Why would I waste my time on something I'm not enjoying when there's so much other stuff out there that I do/will like?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT.

Yup, the moment I get irritated because the canon is doing things I don’t like I leave because continuing to engage with something I’m growing to hate will only make me miserable. I don’t waste creative effort on things I don’t like anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I'm there because I want more.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes,same!
I love being in fandoms for things I love. I am playing in this sandbox because I am inspired. And I want to see more and I want to hear thoughts of my fellow fans.

I've been known to be swept by fanish enthusiasm into not so good canons. But they never were my favourite fandoms and I felt alienated quite fast.

[(Anonymous)]

I like this secret.

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't until my brother introduced me to "Know Your Meme" in the early 2010s and I came across the "Girls don't exist on the internet" meme.
And I honestly didn't believe it was a real meme because my entire existence and experience with the internet were fandom spaces that were exclusively girls/women or overwhelmingly girl/female coded.
It took me a while to grasp onto the fact that the internet has spaces where it's not just fangirls getting together to crack jokes about their hobbies and interests.