[ SECRET POST #2132 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2132 ⌋

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

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Comments

[terabient]

A+++++ 'shoop!

Anyway, I like to think that lots of the righteous fandom rage expressed on tumblr or say, anon memes is mostly hyperbole or a very short-lived emotional reaction that is forgotten once people close their browser window. I can't imagine anyone being THAT upset all the time, you know? And sometimes it's fun to rant over the internet.

The only thing that weirds me out is when there's faux-concern. As in "If you seriously think this is okay, and you're young, it could IRREVOCABLY WARP YOUR MIND AND YOU WILL BECOME/MARRY A SERIAL KILLER!!!11!!" Like wow, do you really think teenagers are that incapable of separating fiction from reality?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god this. So many people on tumblr are like 'if you woobify loki you're gonna date an abusive boyfriend one day omg'. Just slow your roll man, please stop.

no god no.avi

[terabient]

I'd lol at this but I've seen people say that with all seriousness, which is not lol-worthy at all. Like, way to bring up serious issues to win an internet argument, self-righteous fans.

[intrigueing]

Yeah this! I do get genuinely emotional and angry/upset/overinvested in my fandom stuff...but it doesn't last. I brush it off and forget about it when I close my laptop, and I turn my thoughts to other rl stuff and function just fine, but there's just no fun in being in fandom if I can't be a little bit sappily emotional and ranty about it.

It's like watching a movie or reading a book -- I want to be really emotionally affected and caught up in the events the characters experience while I'm absorbed in the story, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna be fundamentally changed or persistently affected by the stuff that happened in the movie/book as if I had lived those events IRL. Participating in fandom is not all that different. It's like...temporarily operating on a different mental level, the way you are while you're caught up in a fictional story.

btw, your icon is amazing :D

[terabient]

At its core fandom is all about becoming emotional and overinvested in something, so really, it would be stranger if discussions didn't get heated as often as they do. I complain all the time about FANS DOING FANDOM WRONG OH MY GOD but i don't mean it. It's just fun to yell about disagreements instead of talking about them calmly, sometimes. :P

The original is here if you haven't seen it.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I assume most people don't go about their day being furious about this stuff all the time, like, the woman in front of me in line at the grocery store isn't silently fuming over people disagreeing with her interpretation of Loki.

There aren't a lot of places to discuss these things and when you combine that with the way the internet (especially anonymity) allows people to be more blunt than they would be in face-to-face situations, a lot of people are going to get a bit hot-headed.

[wauwy]

I totally agree with your last paragraph.