[ SECRET POST #2308 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2308 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

13. http://i.imgur.com/9K35p75.jpg

[inkdust]

I dunno, it sort of makes sense that as you grow more familiar with something and develop your own relationship with it, it becomes harder to appreciate stuff that ends up outside your schema. I don't think there's anything wrong with that in and of itself.

da

[(Anonymous)]

This.

The way you enjoy and relate to things isn't really static. It's natural that it changes over time, especially as you grow more familiar with a series, and the more your own ideas about it solidify.

I think the way people engage with any given fandom tends to undergo a similar evolution, especially the longer you're in it, and the older a series and fandom gets.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems normal? This is what usually leads to my eventually getting sick of a fandom. But there's always something new out there.

[(Anonymous)]

I do the same.

[(Anonymous)]

That's how I do it too, so... *shrugs* You're not alone, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I operate as well, although it seems to just be fandom in general for me now and not just when I got into a certain fandom.

When I started out in fandom, I would read everything and anything, devouring all of the fic that appealed to me. But now I'm very picky about what I read and if something doesn't hold up to my standards I am quick to back the heck out of it. If it doesn't match the characterization of the characters, I back out.

As for the writing I still read a lot more than I write, but that's more due to laziness on my part.

[(Anonymous)]

are you me?

[(Anonymous)]

I get you. I'm at this stage with at least 3 of my fandoms. But a part of it is that they're not big fandoms, and most of the fic content isn't all that relevant to my interests beyond "yay it exists!"

[(Anonymous)]

I start out how you are at the end! But I don't actually write anything, I just waste time searching for something so specific it most likely hasn't been written.

[insanenoodlyguy]

I want to compliment you on the wonderful visual metaphor of your secret. Brilliant.

[omens]

2nded! V effective.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I thought it turned out kind of clunky in execution.

[(Anonymous)]

This is totally me as well, except I don't write

[badass_tiger]

Same, tbh. It's actually made me wonder whether it's the majority of fandom that's blind to how much bad characterisation and writing goes on, or if I'm just extremely fussy.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more that people interpret things differently and then adopt that as the 'right' one, mostly because they want to believe it. Like, if someone WANTS the main villian to have the ability to repent and bake cookies with love for their designated love interest, there's usually not stopping that with logic.

[lunabee34]

I think this is a pretty common fannish trajectory. It's certainly true for me in fandom as a whole. I have become ever-increasingly more discriminating as time has passed.

[omens]

Yeah, this is natural. I'm verrrry particular about my oldest fandoms.

[unicornherds]

I think this is pretty normal.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't man. That's too tiring a process for me. I just end up reading fic about ships I like and drop the fic I find too dumb to waste my time on.

[intrigueing]

That's a really cleverly constructed secret :)

And haha, I'm actually the exact opposite: at first I'll be really picky, but then I'll get more and more indiscriminate as get a better grip on the fandom.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my fandom MO. I enter a fandom that looks all new and shiny (note: it doesn't have to be a new fandom, it just has to be new to me), voraciously consume everything that passes by, and then start whittling my reading down to my forming OTPs, until either the fandom slows down or I end up with OTPs that aren't amongst the popular ones, so my voracious reading appetite is not being satisfied and I'm off reading fics in my minor fandoms to fill the wholes... and something else new and shiny comes along and I wander off to start it all over again.

I can roughly map out my fandom wanderings in blocks of years, though if it' a big fandom with a huge multi-part canon I'll stay for multiple years (I stayed for Final Fantasy because there were multiple games, Transformers because of succeeding movies and multiple other continuities).

I can also see this pattern of whittling down one's preferences in my fanfic reading history. Back when I first started reading fic on FFN, I read anything and everything and had a huge tolerance for the lower end of quality, and questionable plots. These days I don't have that tolerance and am generally more picky. I haven't left Fandom all together though, because good writers still crop up here, there and everywhere. It's just good luck to run into them.

[(Anonymous)]

....yeah, you're not alone. I'm in exactly the same position as you. There's even been a few fandoms where I've left altogether because it got to the point where I could only stand reading the fics of one or two authors, who (naturally) left the fandom soon after. It sucks, but I guess it's more common than you think!