Oh no! I didn't take offense to what you said. You totally prefaced it with it being your opinion (and I know that's how you roll anyway), and that is fine. Just from my standpoint it's not like I need to be told I'm in for disappointment. I'm in this with my eyes open, from all angles. That doesn't change what fandom in general and RPS fandom in particular are to me. (and fwiw, I don't feel any different about Adam and Tommy and Sauli than I do about Dean and Sam and whatever is keeping them apart in canon at any given time. I cannot bear the pain either way. Just it's easier for me to avoid SPN canon, or ignore the bits that don't please me, because I kind of look at the show's writers as just another set of fic writers in many ways. Not so easy with RPS.)
I think my tone is more defensive than I am actually feeling in relation to your post, just because of stuff that has happened the last day or two on twitter. like the filter-dodging and stuff. I didn't mean to sound offended by you. *smish*
I think the thing (or one thing) for me is that I am NEVER not writing. Unless I am actively engaged in talking to another person about something not fandom, I am writing in my head. I don't tend to fantasize about my own life; I fantasize about my characters'. I'm in many ways deeply practical and not given to flights of fancy, so it's hard for me to dream 'big' for me because I am always thinking in practicalities. Also, for years and years I was utterly miserable in my own life, so became a total escapist. I'm sure there are people who would argue that this isn't healthy or whatever, but pfft. It works for me. They can have their hobbies, I have fandom :D
And I do totally agree with you about the painfulness of tinhatting vrs shipping. just, to me, it's no more a choice than being a person who sobs uncontrollably at movies, and is right handed, and can't stand peas. so it is what it is. :)
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Date: 2011-02-06 04:15 am (UTC)I think my tone is more defensive than I am actually feeling in relation to your post, just because of stuff that has happened the last day or two on twitter. like the filter-dodging and stuff. I didn't mean to sound offended by you. *smish*
I think the thing (or one thing) for me is that I am NEVER not writing. Unless I am actively engaged in talking to another person about something not fandom, I am writing in my head. I don't tend to fantasize about my own life; I fantasize about my characters'. I'm in many ways deeply practical and not given to flights of fancy, so it's hard for me to dream 'big' for me because I am always thinking in practicalities. Also, for years and years I was utterly miserable in my own life, so became a total escapist. I'm sure there are people who would argue that this isn't healthy or whatever, but pfft. It works for me. They can have their hobbies, I have fandom :D
And I do totally agree with you about the painfulness of tinhatting vrs shipping. just, to me, it's no more a choice than being a person who sobs uncontrollably at movies, and is right handed, and can't stand peas. so it is what it is. :)