[ SECRET POST #2126 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2126 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 106 secrets from Secret Submission Post #304.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Find the reply saying "you're not a real fan and you know it". That's why it's waspish.

It took longer than I was expecting for someone to say it.

A non-preemptively defensive way to write it down would be, maybe, "I'm participating in a fandom for a TV show I do not watch and have no intention of watching, and I feel a little guilty -- but not very. Nine times out of ten I'd rather read something than watch it, and horror is not my thing, but I like to play with the mythology and the characters. I know the concrete aspects of the canon from research, and the wobbly ones like characterization no one can agree on anyway. I know there are people who hate what I'm doing. I'm doing it anyway."

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

But that person is insanenoodlyguy. He's a troll.

Re: OP

[visp]

"you're not a real fan and you know it"

Well, uh, OP isn't. You can't really be a fan of something you've never seen.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Not in the strictest sense of the word "fan", as in "someone who likes to watch X". You can be a fan in the sense of "someone who participates in the fandom of X".

...Actually, I'd argue it is possible to be a fan of something you've never seen if you want to see it and haven't been able to, but that doesn't apply in my situation.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Now you're just pulling this bullshit out of your ass.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Says you. "Someone in fandom is a fan" sounds like a pretty basic definition.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, if you know every tiny detail about it and enjoy talking about it with other people and so on, then it's murky.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I can be a fan of A/B without ever having seen the show A/B are on.

In fact, if A/B is one of those pairings where people only write about A/B because they're the only two conventionally attractive white male characters who exchange dialogue, I'm more likely to be a fan of A/B if I don't bother to watch the show.

That doesn't mean there's anything inherently wrong with A/B as a pairing - just that it's its own thing now, branched off from canon.