#does any of this make sense? have i streched the metaphor too thin?

[imsodishy]

I'm having sort of formless thoughts that I'm gonna kind of ramble about a bit in order to try to give them shape:

About fandom as a community garden and how there are different ways to interact with the garden that are all completely fine and wonderful. Some fans tend their garden and cultivate lovely things from the earth and seeds of canon. Some fans are just there to enjoy the garden mostly passively, but they're respectful and appreciative of what the gardeners do. And there's some fans out on the fringe of the garden, where things are a little more wild and untamed, and that's fine too, sometimes they leave slightly disturbing gifts near the edge garden (like the occasional dead dove for instance) but if that’s not for you you can just leave it where it lies and it's part of the ecosystem too.

And sure, there's always been people who will stomp on other people plots of land or try to push weird bylaws on everbody else, but there’s a kind of new type stomping around in the garden. Who doesn't actually seem to care for the garden at all, dislikes it as a concept really, and would much prefer to roll out some nice tidy astroturf that the landlords have provided for them, and actually they kind of think the people who like the garden are gross and weird for wanting to hang out in a garden where there's dirt and bugs and stuff.