There is this person on my Tumblr dash who recently changed fandoms, and is having kind of salt-and-burn-the-earth feelings about her old fandom. I understand this
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...I don't know how to interact with that, so I dropped the conversation. Because this is a new fannish norm that I really don't get, and it makes me feel old and weird. No, its not a new fannish norm. I dealt with someone like this in 1995 in the Power Rangers fandom. It's just someone being a dramatic speshul snowflake about themselves. One of the reasons I haven't been enthralled with tumblr for fandom is that there seems to be a lot more immaturity. Also, depending on your snowflake's age, she may have been raised in the self esteem school of thought that her every whim is oh so important
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No, its not a new fannish norm. I dealt with someone like this in 1995 in the Power Rangers fandom. It's just someone being a dramatic speshul snowflake about themselves. One of the reasons I haven't been enthralled with tumblr for fandom is that there seems to be a lot more immaturity. Also, depending on your snowflake's age, she may have been raised in the self esteem school of thought that her every whim is oh so important ( ... )
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