[ SECRET POST #257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #257 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 074 secrets from Secret Submission Post #037.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 ] repeats.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 20th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

12. Yeah, there's a lot of us who are giant elitists about the people who haven't played the game, but it's hardly the first major wanky thing the fandom has done. The FFVII fandom hasn't played nicely since the beginning (despite claims to the contrary, unless perhaps the first year or so was more polite than it later became, though I doubt it). Compilation fans and original game diehards are just the new Cloti/Cloris fight.

Personally, I think fandoms should exist for people who enjoyed a work of fiction to discuss and elaborate that work of fiction. Having people in a fandom who aren't familiar with the source material - having a huge portion of a fandom who isn't familiar with the source material - makes absolutely no sense to me.

But you know, even the biggest FFVII original game diehards don't go around finding and crucifying people who haven't played it. God knows there are a million people who did play the game who only run around the fandom talking about how pretty X character is. The only times it's really visible who hasn't played the game and who has is when people start writing fanfiction or theories or the like. I mean, it's not like the finer details of the game really come up in the everyday discussion of it.