[ SECRET POST #6996 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6996 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Kinda inspired by 6

[philstar22]

Not embarrased by being in the fandom itself, though I'm very much not into Potter anymore. But being part of the obnoxious, ridiculous part of the fandom that thought there was a right and wrong way to ship and got super invested in our ships being canon, now that part I'm embarrased about.

Re: Kinda inspired by 6

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I feel like shipping wars were almost a fandom norm for a while there (I wanna say the early-mid LJ years?). Particularly if you were in a fandom with a proliferation of rival ships.

FWIW, I used to lowkey be an anti. I didn't harass anyone, but I said plenty of anti stuff on my LJ, and I'm pretty sure the only reason I didn't leave anti comments on people's fics is because I didn't feel like it was worth the heat.

People grow and perspectives change.

Re: Kinda inspired by 6

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I regularly revisit old fandoms that I'm not really in anymore, just to see what's been going on, maybe read some new fic, and then duck back out to my primary fandom. Star Trek, Due South, The Sentinel, X-Files, etc. Not Potter. I've never gone back and I have no desire to.

Re: Kinda inspired by 6

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. There was a lot of embarrassing behavior to go around back in the day, when the books were still coming out... I'm not embarrassed to have been into something when I was young that has since been tainted by an author's bad behavior, and I'm not embarrassed to have been a kid on the internet who sometimes behaved accordingly, but I am embarrassed about a few specific *instances*, embarrassed over my level of investment in forum politics, embarrassed because when I'm not associating hp with the *author's* bad behavior, I'm associating it with the bullies and the drama.

Re: Kinda inspired by 6

[(Anonymous)]

Very similar here. I got a bit caught up in the shipping wars, which I suppose is normal, but still embarrassing to think how heated I got over arguments about which ship was "better".

I think what made the HP fandom go unhinged for me was that after the series was over, fans were still really heated over the ships.