[ SECRET POST #2251 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2251 ⌋

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Comments

"You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone ever get weird dissonance when they observe wank occurring in fandoms they're not it and due to the child-oriented, farcical, or non-realism-based nature of the canon the fandom is based around, the wank just looks really, really pointless and bizarre?

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

No more than I do for fandoms I'm in. But at least I'm actually in them instead of making passive-aggressive asshole comments mocking them from outside.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I apologize. I'm actually IN Doctor Who fandom and I meant to add a parenthesis adding "(or hell, even for fandoms you ARE in)", but I submitted the comment before I thought to add it.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[sugar_spun]

I really don't think you need to apologize. I love Doctor Who and if you take offense to such a light comment like this you are a diaper baby.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

NA
Knowing that OP is a fan changed how I took the title. Self deprecation (including of a group or commonality within a group) is different than being made fun of by someone outside the group.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

You don't have to take offense to something to think it was immature or obnoxious.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

I'm willing to accept wank in a lot of "silly" or kid type shows, but for some reason whenever My little pony wank gets really deep I just think to myself, "THEY'RE BRIGHTLY COLORED PONIES GUYS!"

And I like the series, I just don't take it that seriously and I understand Hasbro needs to make money (entertainment is a business as much as we might not want it to be.)

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

All the time. All the fucking time. For fandoms that I'm in as well. I mean, I think you have to, at some point, maintain a sense of proportion.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I should have added:

Or hell, even for fandoms you *are* in, not just fandoms you're not in.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

All wank is pointless to some degree... especially when it's over stuff like most loved or most hated characters/episodes/etc. Someone's most loved is someone's most hated and someone's most hated is someone's most loved and everything in between.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a casual Hetalia fan and I sometimes get weirded out by the ship wars. You'd think people who ship countries together would have enough of a sense of humour to not get offended when someone makes a totally non-offensive joke about their OTP.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I feel this way about most wank in fandom. Like c'mon, guys, we're total dorks who spend a significant amount of our time talking about fictional characters, coming up with detailed backstories about them, writing stories where they find true love/happiness/exquisite torture for our amusement. It's patently ridiculous and I've never understood the seriousness that some people bring to it.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[badass_tiger]

Nicely put. I let wank and serious arguments slide if it's over media representation etc. but debating about which character or ship is better than the other is just a little over-the-top. What happened to enjoying a show without having to worry about a couple of problems with consistency/plot/whathaveyou

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[riddian]

The other week, Transformers fandom (mostly on Tumblr) had a wank about what was the best way for giant space robots to have sex. It was fun.

Also, +1 for your fifth Doctor reference. :D

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[intrigueing]

IMO, the place where wank is okay is when the story intersects with real life: when there's racism/sexism/homophobia/etc, when there's a bad moral or message, when time gets wasted on cheap short-term plot twists instead of good storytelling, when a badly-written story screws the audience (and depending on the nature of the story, pop-cultural awareness) out of a much better potential story or character arc than the one we got.

When the wank is entirely internal to the canon and does not intersect with the audience at all -- character bashing, comparing and contrasting character, making rankings and lists, ship wars, completely internal meta analysis and interpretation, character motivations, worldbuilding stuff -- I am constantly overwhelmed with the desire to scream "what's the point of even talking about this stuff?????" and get embarrassed with myself when I get drawn into it.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[cloud_riven]

Yes. MLP:FiM fandom and how seriously the fans take the direction of an extended commercial. Yeah.

Re: "You are wanking about a guy who *literally* once pinned celery to his lapel"

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, and it even applies to fandoms I'm in. I mean, does it really matter if someone's hair is dark blond or light brown? Really?