this is fantastic. you should read it.

[rosa_acicularis]

saathi1013 just posted this awesome piece of meta about meta. It is, as previously stated, fantastic and awesome. For example:

"The goal is to not take critique of a fandom personally, unless we are being specifically 'called out' for embodying fandom's problematic nature, and in either event to take a step back and evaluate one's own behavior given the

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[shinyopals]

ooh, thanks for the link! it was an interesting read!

[rosa_acicularis]

No problem! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[isilienelenihin]

This is so true. I was an English/History major so all I DID was read and critique case studies and works of literature, and people who haven't been there really don't understand that we do it because we LOVE whatever we're critiquing. If I didn't love Doctor Who I wouldn't bother--I'd read a good book or clean my kitchen or bake some brownies. Why waste all that time and emotional energy if you don't care?

Also ludicrous is the idea that you have to love every single thing about a source medium in order to call yourself a fan. I've run into that idea several times and it makes me want to bang my head against a nearby flat surface.

[rosa_acicularis]

Also ludicrous is the idea that you have to love every single thing about a source medium in order to call yourself a fan.

Yes! Actually, I've found that I tend to be more fannish about source material that both intrigues me with its strengths and troubles me with its flaws. The flaws make me want to take a more active role in the material, which leads to critique and discussion and fic. If something's pretty much perfect, then my involvement doesn't need to go much beyond loving it.

Also: Mmm. Brownies.

[isilienelenihin]

Brownies are delicious! :D I put nutella in them to make them extra chocolatey.

Exactly! And I find it offensive that I'm being told I'm a bad fan for holding my chosen source medium to high standards! Just because something is aimed at children doesn't mean it has an excuse to be shoddy. And just because I disagree with the writer/producer/showrunner doesn't mean my opinion is invalid.

[salienne]

ilu for sharing this. I find meta on meta fascinating, and this is totally to do with my interests. (I think their particular example of slash isn't as comprehensively explored as it could be, as I'm sure some people are just turned off by the fetishization aspect which would be a completely different from homophobia or simple distaste... but also probably quite as frequent as the former two, but that's a side-point and could probably be a totally separate essay.)

[rosa_acicularis]

I want to say that saathi1013 addressed the fetishization aspect in some depth in another metafandom post, but I may be mixing that up with something else I've read recently. It's definitely something fandom needs to be more self-critical about.

could probably be a totally separate essay

More metafandom meta! DO IT. ;)

[kudzita]

Yeah, everything she writes is golden, pretty much.