I don't think you'd need to "boot camp" your whole lj - just particular posts. And hopefully you wouldn't need much enforcing; people would watch themselves. And look at it this way, there's quite a few fans who would really appreciate a squee-harshing-free environment!
And it sucks just as much to be the one having the show change to the point where you no longer enjoy it;
Yeah...I honestly suspect that some of the sploogey Keller-hate that fans have been getting is people so embittered by the show that they're angered by people who do still like it - they actually do want to ruin it for other fans, because it's not fair for someone else to be getting what they like, at (what they see as) the expense of their own enjoyment. It's not logical or nice, but it's all too human a reaction.
And yes, too - I've had shows change on me in ways I didn't like and I've let them go, but never when I was actively fanning on them at the time - it's been. Hmm. Unsettling. From my own experience, I think the virulent Keller-hate is from that, too - because I know that just as you are turned off of fandom by the hate, I'm actually comforted by it (well, not the actually misogynistic stuff, but knowing that I'm in the majority in disliking her character) - it feels good to know I'm far from alone in my opinions, even if TPTB are ignoring us. It drives me from the show but towards the fandom, knowing that the fic is not going to change the same way the show did. ...And then I want y'all to come with us, and try to convince you it's better on this side, that you'd be happier if you just gave in and hated...(I'm sure there's some great metaphor that could go here - perhaps I should write meta-fic...)
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Date: 2009-02-25 07:34 am (UTC)And it sucks just as much to be the one having the show change to the point where you no longer enjoy it;
Yeah...I honestly suspect that some of the sploogey Keller-hate that fans have been getting is people so embittered by the show that they're angered by people who do still like it - they actually do want to ruin it for other fans, because it's not fair for someone else to be getting what they like, at (what they see as) the expense of their own enjoyment. It's not logical or nice, but it's all too human a reaction.
And yes, too - I've had shows change on me in ways I didn't like and I've let them go, but never when I was actively fanning on them at the time - it's been. Hmm. Unsettling. From my own experience, I think the virulent Keller-hate is from that, too - because I know that just as you are turned off of fandom by the hate, I'm actually comforted by it (well, not the actually misogynistic stuff, but knowing that I'm in the majority in disliking her character) - it feels good to know I'm far from alone in my opinions, even if TPTB are ignoring us. It drives me from the show but towards the fandom, knowing that the fic is not going to change the same way the show did. ...And then I want y'all to come with us, and try to convince you it's better on this side, that you'd be happier if you just gave in and hated...(I'm sure there's some great metaphor that could go here - perhaps I should write meta-fic...)