[ SECRET POST #1570 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1570 ⌋


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


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Notes:

Early day today! (:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 56 secrets from Secret Submission Post #224.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

Why do the people who write these posts about having no time for fandom anymore always have the time to make the secret and post it to fandom secrets? Why do they have the desire to do so? I know a number of people who have faded from fandom (oftentimes to return, sometimes not) due to real-life responsibilities and they never make it a secret. None of their friends think fanfiction and RP should supercede real life.

To summarize, I get the impression that these are all troll secrets. Which would also explain why we've been getting fewer and fewer of them over the years, as the response is less and less reactionary, and more "yawn, that's nice dear, I have all of those things and still like fandom, next".

[(Anonymous)]

Why do the people who write these posts about having no time for fandom anymore always have the time to make the secret and post it to fandom secrets?

Making and submitting a secret = 5 minutes, unless you get fancy with graphics.

Writing/reading fic, keeping up with comics/tv shows, participating in discussion = an hour, at the very very least.

Active contribution in Fandom can be a hobby but I think people are downplaying how much time it can actually take.

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

You're leaving out all of the time it takes to check f!s throughout the week to see if your secret's been posted, not to mention said poster almost certainly reads f!s in any case because s/he is inclined to post such a secret in the first place.

Which is 15-20 minutes a day, or 2-3 hours a week, which is more time than many of the "active" fandom types I know spend on fandom.

So, ultimately s/he is still in fandom along with everyone else ;p

[(Anonymous)]

Only if you count F!S as a fandom in itself. I'm not actually active in any fandoms, but I like to read the comments and secrets here, just out of interest.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm inclined to agree with you there. Especially this: None of their friends think fanfiction and RP should supercede real life. I've said goodbye to many fandom friends (some I was more sad about than others). Not once have I ever held it against them. Hell, I too have left certain fandoms, and while I gave the courtesy of saying as such in my LJ, no one ever insisted that fandom was more important than real life or that my interests weren't allowed to change.


Which leads me to the additional observation that the people who make such a big deal out of leaving fandom inflate their importance to fandom or their fandom friends. "Oh no, people will be so mad if I abandon them or my epic fic" etc. Nope, sorry. Fandom carries on, with or without you.

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

Heck I myself have had to scale back my fandom presence upon entering grad school, to roughly what the OP seems to have done: reading and commenting on f!s. My fandoms do indeed carry on without me, though I'd love to contribute more when my thesis is done - ultimately they overstate their importance in their own fandoms and the difficulty of obtaining what they refer to as a "real life", as I'm willing to be the vast majority of us over a certain age have careers and significant others as well as this one hobby (among others!).

[(Anonymous)]

If I may overgeneralize, there seems to be a difference between people who treat fandom as one hobby among others and people who see or treat fandom as a crutch of sorts, something to do or even hide behind because they don't (or don't want to) have this mystical Real Life. And then as soon as they get a job or into school or (the apparent be-all and end-all, judging by the usual tone of this type of secret) a boyfriend/gilfriend, then they don't need fandom anymore or in some cases consider themselves too good for it.

And the rest of us just carry on living our lives that just happen to include this fandom hobby we indulge in to greater or lesser degrees, depending on our interests or amounts of free time.