FMA fandom is terrible. It might not have gotten to the levels of Avatar or Bleach, but it had its fair share of being being nasty and there's still a lot of smarmy condescension that drives me up the wall. And it's worse with the global tags that you can track, because people will tag what is clearly angry, ranting posts as a shipping post! Character bashing is rampant enough, but the shipping jerkery is ten times worse. You have no idea how many posts tagged with "IchiHime" are actually posts that are UGH THIS PAIRING SUCKS SO MUCH I HATE IT posts! (At least until people started getting after them and saying, GET OFF THE ICHIHIME TAG, TAG THIS AS ANTI-ICHIHIME, JERKWAD, which helped a lot.)
And, wow, do the female characters always seem to bear the brunt of the shipping antagonism. You don't have to hate on a female character if you don't ship her with someone, I promise you can just not like the ship and that'll be fine.
I suspect I'm going to find it hard to get back into journaling, because I'm so used to posting so many times a day and I'm used to posting now now now now!!!, but already I'm taking my time a bit more with posts, going over them a bit more, and it's felt really good. I've missed structured discussions like this! I've missed having an anime series that I can do more than just spam a bunch of pictures about that'll get lost in an hour! I've missed being able to walk away from the internet for half a day without wondering what all I'm missing or what party I'm away from. (I'm envious that you're cutting back on your internet time, it must feel really good to focus yourself into real productivity!)
Yeah, they do that in Avatar fandom too. They'll tag something with Maiko and it turns out the post is all about bashing it. I'm like, "Do I tag my hateration posts about how the Zutarans ruined my fandom experience and drove me off into isolation with "zutara"? No!" Of course I don't track the Avatar ship tags. It took me a long time to work up the courage to track the general Avatar tags! (That said, I haven't even LOOKED at any of my tracked tags in weeks.)
And haha, yeah, well, I figure no one else is going to write the book that's in my head so I have to do it. Which means I have to make the time to do it, and that means cutting back on the internet because that's the only place where the time will come from -- still have to work, cook, yoga, commute, and all those other mundane things, lol.
The Maiko hate in Avatar fandom really annoys the crap out of me because it's so often done by fans of a ship that is overwhelmingly popular. I'm firmly of the opinion that, if you have the lion's share of the awesome art and fanfic? You have to suck it up and go cry on your mountain of porn! Ideally, everyone would suck it up and not be a jerk about anything, but it's especially heinous when a popular ship fan does it.
I do enjoy the internet and the friendships I've made on it are very real ones! But I've found that often times--especially with tumblr--I've been lacking time for them (and for my family!) because I'm too busy constantly refreshing my dash. I don't want to look back in a few years and see what I missed because I was too busy posting fanart or reblogging gifs. (Even if gifs are pretty awesome and tumblr is amazing for them! XD)
And, wow, do the female characters always seem to bear the brunt of the shipping antagonism. You don't have to hate on a female character if you don't ship her with someone, I promise you can just not like the ship and that'll be fine.
I suspect I'm going to find it hard to get back into journaling, because I'm so used to posting so many times a day and I'm used to posting now now now now!!!, but already I'm taking my time a bit more with posts, going over them a bit more, and it's felt really good. I've missed structured discussions like this! I've missed having an anime series that I can do more than just spam a bunch of pictures about that'll get lost in an hour! I've missed being able to walk away from the internet for half a day without wondering what all I'm missing or what party I'm away from. (I'm envious that you're cutting back on your internet time, it must feel really good to focus yourself into real productivity!)
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And haha, yeah, well, I figure no one else is going to write the book that's in my head so I have to do it. Which means I have to make the time to do it, and that means cutting back on the internet because that's the only place where the time will come from -- still have to work, cook, yoga, commute, and all those other mundane things, lol.
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I do enjoy the internet and the friendships I've made on it are very real ones! But I've found that often times--especially with tumblr--I've been lacking time for them (and for my family!) because I'm too busy constantly refreshing my dash. I don't want to look back in a few years and see what I missed because I was too busy posting fanart or reblogging gifs. (Even if gifs are pretty awesome and tumblr is amazing for them! XD)
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