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fer_de_lance

In Honour of Speak Out With Your Geek Out

Sep 17, 2011 00:05

So.

For the sake of geek solidarity, I wanted to make a Speak Out With Your Geek Out post, but find myself a bit stymied as this is, well, a fandom journal, which is to say a journal that is my expression of a geeky hobby. I spend hours each week reading and writing fanfiction, enough that I built a journal and an online persona to rec it, ( Read more... )

speak out with your geek out, fandom: meta

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claudine September 17 2011, 08:27:35 UTC

I probably would have made a separate journal, had I not been in my mid-teens and giddy about fandom when I first made this one. XD

that's what this whole "fandom" thing is about: geeks coming together in numbers, doing what they love and having a group to do it in, a group they don't take for granted because they haven't always had it.
I agree! But sometimes fandom can be so like other 'normal' social groups with the backbiting and bitching... sigh.

I'm like you in that I never cared about what others thought of me. At first, in the instinctual teen-rebel way, then later on, with the "it's my life, I don't owe you anything" mentality.

fer_de_lance September 19 2011, 22:40:00 UTC

I'm like you in that I never cared about what others thought of me. At first, in the instinctual teen-rebel way, then later on, with the "it's my life, I don't owe you anything" mentality.

There seems to be some kind of "magic timeframe" for this, where you can segue seamlessly from "I DON'T CARE I AM A REBEL and anyway YOU'RE ALL IDIOTS" to "No, really, do whatever; I don't really care" without having to go through an awkward, peer-pressured transitional phase. :D Looks like we were both lucky enough that our personal timelines fell into that sweet spot!

sometimes fandom can be so like other 'normal social groups with the backbitingThis... is probably true. I think I was also lucky that I fell into slash-fandom, and the more mature side of that, pretty early -- I have figured out, by now, that I really missed a LOT of wank-potential and juvenile interactions by heading straight to Harry/Snape once I found my first major fandom. (Well, the first where social interaction was a large part; TPM fandom was mostly mailing lists and ( ... )

claudine September 20 2011, 15:11:52 UTC

Yeah, I think a huge influence on my not having a peer-pressured phase was my sister. She was an all-around 'bad girl' stereotype and me being me, was so determined not to become like her. XD! In the end, I turned out weird in my own way. (Fannishness and being... somewhat reclusive.)

I've always been in bitchy fandoms. >_>; I can't remember any being particularly peaceful.

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fer_de_lance September 19 2011, 22:53:55 UTC

Awww. Wish I could have been there! I think a part of my confidence was having one close geeky friend when I was 12-14. (Makes me think of the studies done on protesting, where a group would not protest an injustice on their own initiative, but if a plant in the audience spoke up, the group would back that person up. Humans, man: we're hardwired to need backup!)