I know that just as you are turned off of fandom by the hate, I'm actually comforted by it... it feels good to know I'm far from alone in my opinions, even if TPTB are ignoring us.
Yes. This. Whenever I get really upset about Marvel, I go read the vicious, angry rantings of fanboys on message boards (where anyone who ever dares to suggest that a given plotline, character, or writer might not be a crime against God and humanity gets told that they're "a f*cking idiot," hate America, and are probably a terrorist), and it makes me feel so much better, OMG despite the fact that half of them are barely literate trolls. Whereas if I see anyone being positive about X horrible canon thing, it makes me so upset that it can ruin my entire day - I have this deep, utterly irrational conviction that if anyone out there doesn't hate X horrible thing and demand that it go away, they're doing the fannish equivalent of murdering Tinkerbell by declaring that they don't believe in fairies while the rest of us are do our best to try and clap, and that their liking of it will actively cause canon to get worse via some kind of sympathetic magic.
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Date: 2009-02-25 02:55 pm (UTC)Yes. This. Whenever I get really upset about Marvel, I go read the vicious, angry rantings of fanboys on message boards (where anyone who ever dares to suggest that a given plotline, character, or writer might not be a crime against God and humanity gets told that they're "a f*cking idiot," hate America, and are probably a terrorist), and it makes me feel so much better, OMG despite the fact that half of them are barely literate trolls. Whereas if I see anyone being positive about X horrible canon thing, it makes me so upset that it can ruin my entire day - I have this deep, utterly irrational conviction that if anyone out there doesn't hate X horrible thing and demand that it go away, they're doing the fannish equivalent of murdering Tinkerbell by declaring that they don't believe in fairies while the rest of us are do our best to try and clap, and that their liking of it will actively cause canon to get worse via some kind of sympathetic magic.