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fandomsecrets2013-03-24 03:43 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-03-24 03:43 pm
[ F!S Friending Meme XIII ]
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Name/Handle:
Age/Location:
Fandoms:
What in fandom interests me:
What in fandom does NOT interest me:
Major Non-fandom Interests:
My LJ/DW Contains Mostly:
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Name/Handle: Roz
Age/Location: Twenty Three/Illinois
Fandoms: Jeez, how much time do you have. The most active fandom I'm in is Teen Wolf, and that isn't necessarily a good thing. But I'm also into Shameless US (though the massive Karen hate is making me sideeye them pretty hardcore), The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Community, The Vampire diaries, DC Comics. The Young Justice Cartoon, Elementary, Nikita.
What in fandom interests me: Fanart, Fanfic, meta. Interesting people I wouldn't have met otherwise. A teen wolf rpg is currently keeping my impatience at bay during this hiatus.
What in fandom does NOT interest me: Ship wars. How easy it is to target people online and cut them down for what does or does not interest them.
Major Non-fandom Interests: I read a lot. Right now I'm reading Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane. He's an amazing writer, I've read just about all of his works. I also write a lot, some of which is entirely original and not fandom oriented. Skyrim has also still managed to consume my free time a bit.
My LJ/DW Contains Mostly: My DW contains not a whole lot. But my Lj contains fics mostly. It contains a lot of fics i never got around to posting anywhere else. My account at AO3 is toejamfootball and that contains most of my fics.
Other:
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I don't exactly agree with all of Karen choices, but living in an environment like hers, you do what you gotta do to survive. You don't think of others.
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I don't agree with Karen's choices either but she obviously suffered emotional abuse at the hands of her father, and she was clearly going through post traumatic depression when she had her child, which I hear is common in teenage mothers. She's a bad person, but I don't think this show is here for us to judge them on the basis of good and bad. All of these character have bad spots, which is probably the most realistic thing about shameless.
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What things do they judge her for? I only follow Ian/Mickey stuff on tumblr. and that is all of my Shameless US fandom activity really.
I love both the fact that the characters are flawless, the way they handle homosexuality and also the fact that as someone who live(d) the life they live on Shameless, it is pretty realistic.
Which if you haven't lived like them you might not get why the characters (under)react or behave in a way that isn't normal so to speak. Which is why I avoid the fandom as a whole really, because a lot of the reactions I've seen have been reactions I don't agree with. Which does in no way shape or form mean that I think people shouldn't be allowed to think the way they do, I just don't agree with them.
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I love how the show portrays homosexuality. I think Shameless has done more positive things for homosexuality in one season than Glee has done in four. And it's just because they take a realistic look at it. Not everything is cut from the same cloth and you get to see how two very different people react to being gay in very different ways.
See, to make this message longer lol, I live in Illinois (I heard people actually insulting the characters for saying pop instead of soda dude, but that's what we call it in illinois) but I also live on the less than wealthy side of things. So the characters make perfect sense to me. I can feel Fiona's helplessness, and I can understand why the characters keep making bank in temporary and illegal ways because with poverty there's this helplessness to it too. You have no need to raise up from your current position because it's daunting and it feels imaginary to you. And the majority of the characters are children and when you're a child, everything feels important, everything feels like the end of the world to you and when things feel that important, you do less than wise things in response to them.
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Ii is quite realistic indeed, and none of the gay characters are stereotypes. I just love how Ian's personality is ROTC, High School student, brother and so on, and also Gay, not gay first then the rest. I stopped watching Glee and some of the reason was how they portrait homosexuality.
I agree with everything you said in the last paragraph! And also, I know how it is to be in quite a few of their situations, you do what you have to do.
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But I can totally talk Teen Wolf in the mean time.
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And I love talking about Teen Wolf, the fandom just lacks a little.
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Mrs. Morrel does not seem to be good. When she translated the text for Allison and told her the kanima wanted a friend when it was meant to be master - that seemed sneaky. So I'm thinking she might be morally grey, but how evil can she be if she seems to be on friendly terms with Deaton? And what terms are they even on? Are they related, are they both ninja types? In the same business. I really wish they elaborated on that instead of using Lydia as a plot device and giving jackson way more screen time than he deserved.
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