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fandomsecrets2012-03-12 07:13 pm
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Or, "[sports game] WOOOO!!!"
Nothing against sports by the way. Also, some people's online personas don't always translate so well irl. No big.
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But yeah, with tumblr and stuff, most of my friends have some idea about fandom. I think they always did: at any high school, there are kids who are into anime and Harry Potter and obsess over bands or whatever and they're bound to find fanfiction. It's to a different degree than me and we're into different stuff, but I think it was kind of naive of me to think that fandom was my own exclusive domain- pretty much everyone is a fan of something, and a lot of people will Google that thing pretty damn hard. That's not to say that talking about fic and shipping and whatnot is *~mainstream~* yet, but I've seen fanfic talked about on telivision as a geek thing and stuff.
Despite that, it is weird. I know EXACTLY what you mean about the casual fan vs. the fannish mc fanfan thing, and it's especially weird when I know about the fandom as we at fandomsecrets would define fandom when the other person is more into the show itself. Like, I don't love Glee nearly as much as my friends, but I probably know more about the online fandom then they do.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-13 03:21 am (UTC)(link)If/when I meet people I met through fandom IRL, it'll only be if I consider them "real life" friends. And even then, I'd wouldn't want to talk fandom in mixed company.
I swear to god I'm not trying to flame the entirety of fandom, but I know how we look to a lot of the media, and sure as fuck don't want my real name attached to this world.
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a) the casual fan who doesn't really care about the characters and just watches whenever
b) a fairly decent fan, but doesn't understand my fangirl mode -> i.e "Why would you stay up that late to watch it?"
c) the intense fan of just one character/actor, and that it all she want to discuss >.>
d) someone who hates/doesn't understand appeal of fanfiction and makes unnecesary comments, which makes me sad...
And so I just learned to keep my excitement either online or in the privacy of my own room...
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I guess, when you get used to keep your fanish life to yourself in IRL, it tends to feel really akward to finally find someone whom you can talk about it. Even if I do wish to find someone to talk to about fandom, I guess if it really happened I would feel very freaked out. I don't know, maybe it's because it's something I've came to see it as something so intimate to share with others IRL, that it would feel like being naked in public or something.
It doesn't happen only in tv fandoms though. My SO lived the same thing with baseball, and when he finally found someone who could have shared his passion he felt so strange that he just couldn't share anything (I live in a country where not a lot of people like baseball). I knew he wanted too, but he just couldn't open...
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I've actually been pretty lucky when it comes to the one RL person I know who turned out to (still) be in fandom. I might have learned from previous mistakes and sort of slowly brought up stuff and she was always quick to jump on it. We don't always share the same fandoms and she's way less into it than I am.
I've actually had some bad experiences with meeting online fans in RL. Not that they turned out to be nasty, just that we didn't click. We'd get along great online, but face to face it would be awkward because we had very little in common otherwise, things like that.
Then there are times when you get along, but you experience fandom completely differently. I have this experience at conventions. I like certain characters, pairings. I like to read fanfiction, maybe have a discussion once in a while. Other people don't ship at all, they cosplay, collect merchandise, whatever. There's no right or wrong way to do fandom, but you've got to find someone who's a bit compatible if you're going to hang out.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-13 07:16 am (UTC)(link)I'm trying to get better but it's a long process.
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