Tumblr, I am disappoint (aka How Tumblr May Yet Ruin Twin Peaks For Me)

[amatara]

I've been lucky enough never to have been active in a fandom (or at least not been in contact with that particular part of said fandom) where character hatred and My Ship Versus Your Ship were things to worry about. Not that the phenomenon didn't exist at all in 'my' fandoms, but it was rare enough that you could avoid it by just being moderately

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[nemo_everbeing]

This is why the only tags I tend to search either involve adorable baby animals. Because fandoms are crazy. Even on LJ we aren't safe from the weird partisan crazy that infects fannish minds. I mean, I expected it from the Buffy fandoms, because they were very popular there for a while, and followed by a very young, active and passionate audience, but 'The Dresden Files' and the 'Metal Gear Solid' were insane too, and those properties aren't nearly so mainstream. I guess it's why most of my friends on LJ and people whose journals and suggestions I follow are always fans of even nichier stuff like 'Adam Adamant Lives!' (cult show from the 60s). Because there are maybe four of us, and we're all just too happy to know one another exists to argue about minutia.

It almost makes sense 'Twin Peaks' would generate ire, but I would have expected it to be about the cancellation and the lack of promised graphic novel followup. Not that Lara Flynn Boyle is a mean-head, or ship-wars (I at least hope us few, proud Dale/Albert shippers are above that crap!). Sigh. Fans of my show, you disappoint me.

Best suggestion: more baby animals. Here. Have a wombat:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182470/Orphaned-kangaroo-wombat-inseparable-friends-share-pouch.html

[amatara]

'Sigh' just about covers it, yeah... :( I've almost been taking this personally, as in: "Nooooooo, Twin Peaks, my darling fandom, why are you suddenly so full of fail!?" And if it was ire about the cancellation or, say, the second-season decline in quality, I wouldn't mind that much; it's the sheer pettiness (not to mention the mysogyny, blegh!) of what people are ranting about, and how easily words like 'hate' or 'bitch' or 'idiot' are flung around, that gets to me. That said, I'm not at all in good position to judge if LJ as a whole is very different. All I can say is that on LJ I've always found it relatively easy to shelter from that kind of stuff. I spent a short time in the Harry Potter fandom, for instance, and while I know it has a reputation, I never had much trouble steering clear of the viciousness; it was just a matter of picking the right comms to watch and the more sensible people to friend, and that was it. Whereas on tumblr, I'm finding it a lot harder to be selective.

On the other hand, I've been relieved to see that the Dale/Albert shippers on tumblr (at least the few I've come across) seem to be a cordial and sensitive bunch. :) Maybe because there are only a handful of us, but still, I'm glad! Plus on the flip side, I haven't seen many acidic comments about Dale/Albert as a pairing, either; the only instance I remember was a review someone left on a fic (not mine) about how regrettable it is that some people insist on writing an 'obviously straight' character like Cooper as gay. Which had me gnashing my teeth for some time. But it's the only 'ouch' statement I ever saw with respect to Dale/Albert, so I guess we're pretty okay there.

Baby wombats make everything better, though! Aww. *melts*