June Something: Harry Potter is the Schitt (Public Post)

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Skipping around because what is order, anyway?

Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.Under the cut - Harry Potter, Schitt's Creek, Buffy

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[author_by_night]

And while venting out your frustrations can be good, doing so all the time and having an entire community in a specific fandom do the same thing can be emotionally and psychologically exhausting to deal with.

100%! And I did the same exact thing. It was not healthy.

Which doesn't work because you cannot convince someone to not ship something if they really enjoy the ship, nor can you convince someone to ship your preferred ship if they, in turn, don't like it. It's pointless and it goes nowhere. And really, all shipping wars are the same, and most recently it's just been repackaged with a "woke" appearance which, like all faux woke shit is merely performative.

Yeah, and that's an issue. It's performative and all about a reason to argue, which is gross and counterproductive to actual problems in the world.

I'll admit that when I first discovered slash, I... kind of did think it was just kids being silly and making fun of gay men, but in retrospect I think that was because (a) I couldn't understand who'd seriously ship Harry/Draco (sorry, I realize now there are many reasons people do, but when I was new to fandom I just "knew" Draco as a racist bully, you know?), and (b) I was a kid myself and that WAS exactly what the kids I went to school with would've done. "Hahaha Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are gay hahaha." Plus, IIRC the fic wasn't well written. Now I realize that while maybe some of those fic writers really were kids being gross, it's more likely that they were serious, if perhaps not the best writers. Or maybe they were and I just jumped to conclusions. BUT once I realized no, a lot of people honestly saw those characters together, I shut up. I also feel horrible about some of the comments I left in the meantime, and even went back and apologized.

and considering the nature of the Internet these days nuanced discussions about these kinds of topics cannot be handled by most because unless it's a quick Twitter-style clapback comment it is not worth their attention span.

Right?? That's why I don't bother. I also think it's because people really just want to be agreed with, a lot of the time, even if it IS a quick twitter-style clapback comment. They're not really going for a conversation, they just want to have said something, which puts you in a bad position if you try adding anything to the conversation - even if you're agreeing with them.