Loved this! Everyone has their own fandom 'rules', but I have to say that I agreed with everything in this post.
I especially loved "And always remember, fandom is supposed to be fun. If it's not, you're doing something wrong." That was beautiful. I make it a rule to never take my fandoms too seriously. I have serious discussions, I analyse things, I talk about what this one specific thing means (mostly in my fictional fandoms)... but I'm a part of fandom because it keeps me smiling. I think that can sometimes be a problem, because people will say things and, because I read everything in a sort of tongue-in-cheek, joking manner, I won't usually take them seriously. I sometimes wonder if people ever think that I'm seriously shipping people (such as Adam and Tommy) because I'll say things that somebody could read as me being serious, when I'll mean them in a kind of fun way. Does that make sense?
I think another important thing about fandoms, like you said, is being able to filter. I'm very good at ignoring things that I don't like, and, like you advised, pressing the back button. If there's Ron bashing when I'm reading Harry/Draco fic, I'm out of there, but I don't go yell at the author for writing about it.
Basically, my motto is live and let live and to each his own, and, of course, hakuna matata.
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Date: 2011-02-05 11:32 pm (UTC)I especially loved "And always remember, fandom is supposed to be fun. If it's not, you're doing something wrong." That was beautiful. I make it a rule to never take my fandoms too seriously. I have serious discussions, I analyse things, I talk about what this one specific thing means (mostly in my fictional fandoms)... but I'm a part of fandom because it keeps me smiling. I think that can sometimes be a problem, because people will say things and, because I read everything in a sort of tongue-in-cheek, joking manner, I won't usually take them seriously. I sometimes wonder if people ever think that I'm seriously shipping people (such as Adam and Tommy) because I'll say things that somebody could read as me being serious, when I'll mean them in a kind of fun way. Does that make sense?
I think another important thing about fandoms, like you said, is being able to filter. I'm very good at ignoring things that I don't like, and, like you advised, pressing the back button. If there's Ron bashing when I'm reading Harry/Draco fic, I'm out of there, but I don't go yell at the author for writing about it.
Basically, my motto is live and let live and to each his own, and, of course, hakuna matata.