I miss having a fandom. :(

[stoney321]

Which might sound strange, because I am still fannish about some shows. This post pretty much sums up how I feel about current fannish trends, aka - rolling around in spoilers and speculations and red herrings and becoming UNBELIEVABLY ANGRY about things and then spending the season bitching about how those spoilers and speculations and red herrings weren't accurate. (Oh, you don't say?)

I have not one single fannish Tumblr on my feed now. No one can be trusted (aside from my Miss Muse), I have painfully found out. I took K_B off my feed last night because someone put in their g.d. author's notes to a fic post "now that we all need a little..." blah blah - which means that they are hinting about a spoiler/speculation/red herring and now I AM INFECTED WITH IT. :(

Everyone can have the fannish experience they want. Which seems to be that they want to be angry and hate a show they continue to watch (oh my god, don't even get me started on the BZUH?-ness of that). So why can't I have the fannish experience I want? Which is to watch the show when it airs, and then talk - BEHIND A CUT - about what I liked, etc? Because people are selfish, that's why. I'm sorry if that makes you angry with me. (People who don't care about my wishes and wants make ME angry.) As flaming_muse said: spoilers should be OPT IN, not OPT OUT.

I've had four different fics on my hard drive that I've essentially deleted. I can't even consider moving forward with any of them, because my joy in the show and sharing it are pretty much gone - not to mention the whole "feeling paralyzed about writing the future with hints of what's to come having been carelessly posted."

I'm just tired of selfish behavior. It's like the majority of the people on the internet exhibit ADD behavior: complete lack of impulse control and thinking things through, or having empathy for others. /killjoy.

There are a handful of people that I enjoy in this fandom, and I'll continue to read them (and I'm talking, like six people), but man - the rest of the fandom has pretty much killed it for me. I've been in one fandom or another since I was, hmm. 11? I'm 40. I've never had such a negative experience. I say this not to be a whiner, but to stress how UNUSUAL this behavior is. This is not how fandoms typically behave, n00bs. As I tell my kids and their friends: Manners are free, so there's no excuse for you to not have any.

Not that it's a hardship to other fan-types in Glee that I'm not really wanting to play ball anymore, I'm not trying to prop myself up in importance (because let's face it - I'm not.) I'm just expressing myself in my personal fannish space.

ION, I bought my son skinny jeans and they bag on him. O_O The child eats almost $200 in groceries A WEEK. If I could bottle his metabolism...

[ETA]: Just to clear the record: I'm not trying to be all sniffy/flouncing. I'm expressing my frustration, is all. (And it should go without saying that there should be NO MENTIONS OF SPOILERS OF ANY KIND in comments here. Or speculation. Or red herrings. Or mention of Brussels sprouts. Because those are gross and make you fart.)

Comments

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

See, I don't see the show as being inconsistent, though. It's been a hodge-podge of dark camp, gritty realism, utter crack and tender moments from the first episode, and I think it still is.

That's not to say that I believe every episode is perfection, but I don't think the show has strayed from "We are crazy and are all the genres of theater, from zany musicals to heartfelt drama and everything in between."

I think they wanted the show to be about Mr. Schuester, that way they could get away with having such dark and adult material, but realized it didn't HAVE to be about him to have that same dark comedy. But it has ALWAYS been the Rachel and Finn show. Always. That's why I get confused about people complaining about their screen time. They are the stars of the show - everyone else is the ensemble.

The show is about the experience that a Social Reject has in school - and it's accurate. There are amazing teachers out there that really care about students, but they haven't stamped out bullying, because they CAN'T. That's the gritty realism. Also, you take away the misfit angle, and you no longer have a story to tell. *shrug*

I have no idea what you're talking about with Season Three, but I accept that you are certainly entitled to enjoy/not enjoy the show as you experience it. That just wasn't MY experience in the slightest. My viewing (spoiler/speculation free) was that it was an astounding amount of wonderful Klaine moments. So. *hands*

I just don't enjoy hating on the show. Then again, I'm a glass half full kind of person and always look for a silver lining in anything. So I just don't see the woefulness that most of fandom has seen, and honestly, I'm baffled by it. I have ENJOYED all three seasons. Quite a lot, actually. I have faith in RIB, and don't get the hate they get.

But again: to each his/her own.

(And maybe...you should avoid spoilers, too? If it's so upsetting to you? I just throw that out there for you to do as you will, of course.)

[dareu2beme.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. My opinions are probably just tainted by the fandom.