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indi-glo-archive · 8 months ago

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one thing i've noticed lately that I don't think I can talk about on my actual fandom sideblog (yet) is the fact that i'm just having a fundamentally different fandom experience to what I think the majority of people in fandom are

A lot of people focus on shipping over everything else. Like, "I don't care about realism or good plot or character consistency or anything that really makes a show good, I just want my two faves to kiss" levels of focusing on shipping. It's like instead of caring about the actual show or even those actual characters, they choose to focus on their relationship instead.

A couple examples of this are the 9-1-1 drama that's going on rn. I don't watch that show but from what I've seen it's a great example of this. and, imo, people's opinions on Simon/Daphne from Bridgerton s1 are heavily influenced by wanting the ship over anything else. I think Simon's reasoning for not wanting children is perfectly ok reasoning to have. If he doesn't want to have kids or get married to spite his dad, if he chooses to ignore love to avoid those things, then that's his choice! It's not pathetic or goofy or negative at all for him to make a choice and stick to it, and it certainly isn't something he needs to get corrective SA'd about unless you just want to see him and Daphne fuck and you care more about that than them as characters.

idk. it makes fandom feel really shallow for me, someone who enjoys meta with depth and nuance more than mindless shipping at any cost. I already knew the overwhelming bigotry made it pretty shallow, but the shipping-only mindset adds another level to it. It's just not something I personally enjoy very much

#i shouldn't be in the club. i should be in english academia #i had so much fun in my one college english class. but i don't think i'm gonna switch majors about this though. it's not that deep #anyways! i don't think this is everyone. i mean i had a decent enough following as indi-glo #and that was while shitting on people. not even doing meta people wouldn't consider as controversial #but i think it's common enough in the fandoms i'm in that it's hard to find people who aren't like that. which isn't super fun for me #it means i can't talk about a lot of things i find interesting if i don't want a repeat of indi-glo levels of hate #i'm not in the mood to be mass blocked in a fandom again. but the threshold of things you have to do to be mass blocked in a fandom #is actually so low. which adds to me being bored bc i can't talk about a lot of the things i want to talk about #also to be clear this isn't me going on the fandom site and complaining that there's fandom on it #i'm not upset about the existence of fandom. i'm 'in' multiple fandoms. i just don't like how fandom operates #i do get that most people aren't here to form english academia essay worthy opinions on fuckin heartstopper though. i get that #i do wish ppl were more open-minded when people have more nuanced opinions about the show/characters #that happen to go against their ship or w/e. but i get it i guess

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