#fandom problem 6183

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Fandom Problem #6183:

The older I get and the more I interact with fandoms the more I realize that literally none of this matters. It’s all irrelevant, stop taking fictional characters and worlds so seriously. I’d say go touch grass but I think what people really need is to just talk to a real person for five minutes and realize no one actually gives a shit. Seriously, disconnecting from online fandoms and talking to real people is quite eye opening to just how stupid fandom discourse is.

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Small Town Obsession

Small Town Obsession by KatWritesStuff

Katsuki Bakugo is an Idol who agrees to perform at a small local festival between real shows. He doesn't take the full bank of staff with him, just his acoustic guitar and bodyguard, Ochako Uraraka.

When a plot is uncovered to assassinate him at the festival, orchestrated by crazed sasaeng superfan and long-time problem Izuki Midoriya, Uraraka has to act fast to ensure that Bakugo makes it to his next show alive.

Words: 6183, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Bakugou Katsuki, Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku

Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Uraraka Ochako

Additional Tags: Kacchako Week 2022, Alternate Universe - Idols, BAMF Uraraka Ochako, Bakugou Katsuki Swears A Lot, Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings, Idol Bakugou Katsuki, Bodyguard, Sasaeng Fan(s), Not Beta Read

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40233612

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by Bloodpatternblue

"I won a ton of gold and silver, please you have to help me find my sister! I'll pay you" she pleaded tightening her grip on my shirt. "That dog won't hunt lass, I have my own problems to deal with" I said softly. Set in the wild west. Can Bulma convince the loner cowboy Vegeta to help her find her missing sister?

Yes another AU!

Words: 6183, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Dragon Ball

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Bulma Briefs, Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Goku, Bardock (Dragon Ball), Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball)

Relationships: Bulma Briefs/Vegeta

Additional Tags: Bulma and Vegeta - Freeform, Bulma and Vegeta AU, Bulma Briefs + Vegeta, vegbul, DBZ Alternate universe, Western, DBZ Western

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The Overpass

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3fqgQpK

by checkeredhoodini

Detective Shuichi Saihara tries his best to unravel the Phantom Thief’s clues before it’s too late. But does he actually WANT to arrest the thief? He’ll find out, in one of the most inconvenient places possible.

~~ "May I have this dance detective?" "There's no music..."

He puts his hand in another pocket and pushes a button. The Overpass by Panic! At the disco starts to play.

"Problem solved my emo friend~" he winks. ~~

Words: 6183, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Danganronpa

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Oma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi, Shinguji Korekiyo, Kirigiri Kyoko, Naegi Makoto, Hinata Hajime, Momota Kaito, DICE (Dangan Ronpa)

Relationships: saiouma - Relationship, Oumasai - Relationship, Oma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Additional Tags: Phantom Thief Oma Kokichi, Phantom Thief AU, Bisexual Saihara Shuichi, Nervous Saihara Shuichi, Oma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi-centric, Tired Saihara Shuichi, Eventual Oma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi, Oma Kokichi Is a Little Shit, Oma Kokichi Being Oma Kokichi, Oma Kokichi Is Bad at Feelings, Oma Kokichi Is a Mess, Saihara Shuichi-centric, Detective Saihara Shuichi, Detective Saihara Shuichi and Phantom Thief Oma Kokichi, Fluff, Based On A Panic! At The Disco Song, Panic! at the Disco References, Inspired by Panic! at the Disco, Song fic, POV Saihara Shuichi

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3fqgQpK

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Regarding 6183

I'm a functioning adult with a job, taxes and all other sorts of adult responsibilities. And yet, the fandom climate is kinda important to me nonetheless, because after a hard day at work I want to indulge myself in my favorite media on the blue site, and I wouldn't want some yankee teen with too much time on their hands calling me all terrible things for liking some things in supposedly "wrong" way

Posting as a response to a previous problem.

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6183:

I truly hate submissions that are worded like this. They're reductive, and they flatten everything that happens online and in fandom to some kind of imaginary fantasy where nothing counts or matters.

A lot of fandom squabbles don't matter outside of fandom. A lot of people spend way too much time online and get upset over trivial crap. Powerleveling doesn't matter. Whose ship is "better" doesn't matter. Fictional characters are fictional and not real. I don't think anyone can deny that.

But let's not kid ourselves by saying all people in fandom somehow aren't "real" (yes, I do know what you're going for there, I don't need to be @'d about it) and therefore everything that happens with people in fandom, and all fandom discourse, is inconsequential. "Stop taking fictional worlds so seriously". Well, a lot of people in fandom would love to, but a pack of dicks rode their ass about how they wrote something and now they're afraid to be creative. Y'know? If you're talking strictly about the first few examples I gave above; poweleveling, ship wars, etc, I would agree with you that it's just dumb stuff to get upset over. But I hate the choice of words here because it's so nonspecific.

So I want to rant for a moment if you'll let me.

Fandom is a microcosm of real life, and especially with young people, who spend a massive amount of time online now, they take what they learn and bring it outside of fandom. Those people running around sending death to someone for writing incest? Being told they're horrible people for writing a homophobic character? A good deal of them are leaving fandom spaces with serious complexes about themselves, and they're going to hurt people. I read about an incident where a young cookie run fan went and bullied another fan, at school, to the point they attempted suicide, and their parents found out, then they found a bunch of horrifying discord interactions where the kid had been getting groomed by a "safe adult". A lot of this shit isn't just "fandom discourse", it's discourse repackaged with fandom wrapping paper and a fandom bow and ribbon. The person who doesn't have friends because they move around a lot and doesn't have a stable situation? They can find stable friends in fandom.

The use of "real person" makes me think of someone who spends all their time online and doesn't have the slightest clue, who doesn't have any perspective with talking to real people, and I'm looking around at my mom and my sister and myself, and the friends I routinely videochat with, and I'm just going… Online fandoms are all people who aren't, as you phrase it, "real"?

But that's my two cents.

Posting as a response to a previous problem.

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All of this. I agree.

I want to mention Elliott Dunsan's "Behind the Curtain: Anti-Shipping is a Bad Faith Position" essay as a contributing point to how nonsense that happens in fandom, if discounted, often just emboldens bad faith actors, and allows genuinely harmful behavior to go dismissed under the excuse of "it's a fandom thing lol, grow up."

It's not just that many of the people discussing certain problems in fandom (and I can't even say that as in, fandom-specific problems, as so much of this stuff, as you've said, does mirror outside-fandom sentiments). It's that at some point, the setting just doesn't matter anymore, and attention needs to be given to what people are saying and how they're treating others, the setting withstanding. In-person D&D meets are a fun time and supposed to be entertaining, but someone who constantly antagonizes another player for playing a lesbian is an asshole, and it begs discussing, it's not "just a D&D thing lol, grow up". It doesn't matter if the next meet is virtual, because that narrative and that person is there regardless.

Posting as a response to a previous ask.