[ SECRET POST #1964 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1964 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 105 secrets from Secret Submission Post #281.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You can be a true fan of anything as long as you love it.

But I think it's just a fact that someone who has read all the comics will be a "bigger fan". I wouldn't dream of telling a Lord of the Rings fan who read all the books, saw all the films, and knows all the extra stuff that I'm just as big an LotR fan as they are when I've only watched the films. The truth is they know more about this stuff than I do. They put the time and energy into all of it, I didn't. Maybe I'm equal when it comes to love for the films, but that's as far as it goes.

This is coming from someone who hasn't read/watched any of these Avenger films... including The Avengers. So I'm not a comic book fan lecturing here.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. It drives me nuts when there's a fandom that I have been part of and loved my entire life, and then someone shows up and has only seen the movies when they are at the height of their popularity and acts like they are "just as big a fan" as I am, when it's something I've held close to my heart since I was a child.

I'm delighted to have them in the fandom, they're absolutely welcome to be here, but they're also likely to only be interested while the fandom remains at the height of popularity, and then will probably move on to another fandom. And it feels really shitty when someone like that treats someone who is a lifetime fan as if they are entitled to behave as if they know just as much and have dedicated as much of their life to the fandom. Because they haven't.

I only watch Game of Thrones, I didn't enjoy the aSoIaF books, and the same goes for True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse books. I would never in a million years purport to be as big a fan as my friends who were already reading aSoIaF back while the first four books were being written. It's OKAY to be a casual fan, or just a fan of part of a fandom, or a new fan or a temporary fan, or excited about the fandom right now because it's popular. Totally okay. If you love something, that's awesome and I'd love to talk to you about it. But it's not fair to act as if you're entitled to claim that you're just as big a fan as a person who was there when no one else cared about the fandom, who has loved it and been with it their entire life. You could become as big a fan, eventually. But you're just not.