A Little Disillusioned

[veruslux]

Hey, all. (or whoever still hangs around here, i haven't seen a soul here in over a month)

I have to say, I am a little disappointed.

Comments

[princealia]

I think pretty much all of us have "moved" in some way or another. Be that moved their ranting to other places, moved away from dealing with the woes of fandom (there's only so many times "stop bashing Kairi" can be said), or moved on from the game itself. I know I'm in the latter. Permanently or temporarily is to be determined, but right now I'm just sick of it. I retired my keyblade (...or chakrams. I think I always had chakrams...) last year as I just got tired of game after game after game after game with no mention of when this series was going to move forward. Birth By Sleep was the last straw for me. I don't even know what the hell I'm playing anymore. This doesn't feel like the same game I fell in love with, and there doesn't seem to be any signs of returning to that as I hear yet another game on yet another console is coming out. Yay for adding rounds people have been asking for for years, but it's a little late for some of us. I am absolutely disillusioned.

Maybe when KH3 is release people will come back here? But times are changing for LJ communities as it is. All the KH peeps I knew spend all their time on Plurk or Tumblr these days, so if you're looking for the KH fandom, LJ might not be the place.

[animenutcase]

I do hope that when KH3 is released, the fandom gets revitalized. I've only been into KH for about a year. I'd hate for the fandom, as insane as it is, to die.

As for me, part of the reason I've only posted one rant is because I'm not actually surprised by a lot of the stuff fandom does and I know that ranting about it doesn't usually change much. And then there's my tendency to move to different fandoms. It's been a habit of mine for years. I'll get into a fandom, stay in it for awhile, then read or see something about a different fandom and move there. Then I'll see something about the first fandom and go back.

Your comment made me really sad for some reason.

[princealia]

The best time to be in the KH fandom is right when the major titles are released. KHII's release is still the best time I've ever had in a fandom, hands down. I don't doubt KH3 will put a proper spark back into the fandom, but that doesn't look to be any time soon, so the fandom is left to dig up fics from five years ago to spork because that's where all of the "fandom" is, basically.

Most of the rants were usually "DO YOU SEE THIS CRAZY SHIT?", but after five years of it, it's not so crazy anymore and I'm no longer invested enough in the fandom to care. OOC fic? Bashing? Shipping wars? No love for minor characters? Yep, it happens. This fandom taught me everything I've ever needed to know about fandoms ever. Hardly anything gets me riled up anymore in any of my other interests because I've seen it all here. Even if I did get sucked back into the KH fandom, I doubt I'd be doing rants like I use to as I've also learned to vent the very few fandom frustrations I get in other ways now. I think a lot of the rants back then were to keep the hilarity rolling here, which is essentially what started to kill this place because people were searching for things to rant about and it was either A. not funny, B. old news, or C. went too far.

My comment made me sad as I think this is the first time I've looked around this fandom and gone "...wow, yeah, everyone's gone". I haven't kept up with KH in ages let alone its fandom.

[animenutcase]

I guess that means the fandom is currently in limbo, then.

Not doing rants like you used to isn't necessarily a bad thing. You could say that seeing all the crazy shit in one fandom helps prepare you for seeing it in other fandoms because just about every fandom has them. Plus, while the character bashing/shipping wars/etc. bothered me, it never really got me riled enough to really rant about it unless there was a specific case.

Hopefully when KHIII comes out, it'll get the fires starting in everyone again. We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime we at least have other fandoms to drive us crazy.