I, too, tend to have one 'primary' fandom at any given time, though I admit in some weird way I haven't been quite so 'inspired' by a fandom... maybe ever, quite so much as I have by this one, and in a weird way it's sort of because of the blank-slate nature of the movie. They don't give you much, therefore, you have to extrapolate. Plus: giant fucking robots! = fic. And now it would seem that I'm in deep. Really deep! But I don't think my life would be altered nor anyone come after me with pitchforks should I get up and leave it tomorrow, though at the same time I don't think I would be the better for it. It has, after all, got me thinking creatively in lines that I hadn't yet before. I don't construe this as anything but a good thing. Damnit. >:(
I think they were more aghast at the fact that she went to school for art and is still clearly amusingly inept. Hell, I admit that I've made fun of people in similar ways for similar reasons- I've been following one for years just because she's so amusing and out there. But I certainly have never said anything to her, and I certainly wouldn't link her on Something Awful! My God, that's just unleashing the hounds.
There really is something about the Internet (males on the Internet, specifically) that really brings out people's latent cruelty.
Holy, holy. I read through that and wow... I'm really hoping it's some kind of elaborate joke? D: This is so beyond just finding silly crap on the interbutts and laughing at it. Go go cruelty! =\
Heh, I honestly felt like half my friend's list was whining about how lonely they felt on this day of capitalistically exploitive days. And social conditioning to this-is-the-way-it-need-be aside, well, I guess in some ways it does boil down to a societal pressure thing. But really, I think I may be too trapped in my own head and value my privacy and autonomy too highly, bug I just don't get why people care, why they let these notions of heteronormativity/homonormativity/romance/having an 'other' define them. This is truthfully one of the things that positively drives me up the wall about fanfic; there is "romance", and there is "everything else". Even in this nichey little subculture it's the pinnacle, and in some ways, the default! This, to me, is just sad; how did the whole concept of finding one's 'soulmate' and making that be the end-all-be-all of their existence even happen, let alone be so much of what fandom people obsess over? (granted, I do go into the notion of the 'soul-mate' in Revelation, perhaps rather extensively,
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Apparently this struck a chord:ravynstoneabbeyFebruary 15 2008, 03:20:30 UTC
*reads the link* Good lord. Um. Yeah. The same could be said for anything else besides fandom. People will chose to be obsessed to the point of hurting themselves over ANYTHING, not just fanfic. But damn some times one has GOT to step away from the computer and go outside for a bit and talk to people face to face.
(obsession = creating a community for a fictional group in an crack alternate universe?)
I've lurked around the edges of fandom since 1997 or so (BSB fic then) and only since 2006 did I actually start doing more things in fandom. Posted my first fic in '06, started the SJT in January 2007, found TF fandom in July 2007, started the thecybertronian and capslock_tf in August and tf_afts in October. Until October 12 2007 I was a stay at home mom, so I had more time to devote to fandom, but still did other things. I helped at school, did paperwork for my dad and FIL, kept house, did the banking and errand-running and whatever else needed doing. I still do all that, plus work around 30 hours a week, and admittedly the housework has slid, but that's
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I've lurked around the edges of fandom since 1997 or so (BSB fic then) and only since 2006 did I actually start doing more things in fandom. Posted my first fic in '06, started the SJT in January 2007, found TF fandom in July 2007, started the thecybertronian and capslock_tf in August and tf_afts in October. Until October 12 2007 I was a stay at home mom, so I had more time to devote to fandom, but still did other things. I helped at school, did paperwork for my dad and FIL, kept house, did the banking and errand-running and whatever else needed doing. I still do all that, plus work around 30 hours a week, and admittedly the housework has slid, but that's ( ... )
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