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The Agents of Shield anons and the How to Quit thread got me thinking - have you ever had one fandom that just struck you and was borderline, or full on, unhealthy type of obsession?

Fandom tends to be an obsessive thing to start with, but it's generally a healthy sort of hobby. But sometimes it seems something clicks in people's heads and it's more of an unhealthy addiction instead of the fun hobby it started out with. I'm curious how many people have experienced something like that and if it was just one fandom that struck an obsessive chord or maybe just a bad time in your life or something else?

Sort of, yeah. But for me it was because I was stuck in a bad place at that point in my life where I was unable to get a job, and didn't yet have the resources to go back to school.

I am in an unhealthy phase right now, and I think it's because of my current life situation. It's pretty bleak and I admit it can't be all a coincidence that the most obsessive and involved I've ever been in a fandom is happening at the same time.

And it is like an addiction for me. I keep trying to 'quit' and find myself checking tags and AO3 and unblocking sites. It is...not a healthy time for me. And no, I've never been like this in my many years in fandom before.

DA

Yeah, it can be hard to quit when it's a bad point in your life - and, tbh, I think that fandom [particularly on tumblr, but elsewhere to some extent too] makes it ~okay~ because it tries so hard to accepting of well...almost everything.

Thief. Something about that series makes people lose their fucking minds. I don't get it.

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I hadn't heard this about VtMB though I have heard of that weirdo who made the "true" patch and has a long-running grudge against Wesp5.

have fun <3

Hahahaha, which one was that? Vae, Goldmoon Dawn and jtr7 all tended to post that kind of garbage.

I've seen Supernatural do bad, bad things to people. But really, I think any fairly big fandom can suck someone in and take over their life if they're in a bad enough spot to be vulnerable to fandom addiction. However, the inbuilt nature of some fan things e.g. MMORPGs can be more damaging than other fandoms because of the time and money investments required/possible.

When I was younger (much, much younger) I had some unhealthy fan entanglements. Like, I would sort of panic-squee if I met someone with the same name as one of The Characters (common names in English) and my heart would pound and pound, and I wrote a ton of terrible poetry and couldn't focus on schoolwork. To be honest, I still get little twinges of that weird, uncomfortable, obsessive feeling, but I don't get drowned in it anymore.

This happened once in a really severe way when I was just a kid and once about ten years later with a different fandom when it was just background noise to a larger problem. I never got to Jordan Wood / Andrew Blake levels of unhealthy, though I would have been susceptible if an Andrew Blake had come along at the right time to take advantage.

The Supernatural and Sherlock fandoms. Both seem to be batshit insane.

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