Oh, hello there! Somebody is still reading this! :-D Yeah, I can understand finding it hard to find something to say, especially when it's about a fandom you're not into yourself. It's not like I've been commenting on your White Collar stuff... ;-)
I spend so much time lurking discussions, reading fanfics, looking at fan art and listening to fan music ( which is a big thing in Pony fandom! ) that I've become convinced that there's nothing I could add to any fandom. Everything TV/movie canon has already been discussed in more depth than I could ever manage, everybody writes and draws better than I could ever learn ( or even if I practised a lot, everybody else would also improve in that time, maintaining the distance, or the fandom would die in the meantime ) and... yeah... gay porn..! :-/
I feel like fandom is... well, I used to think it was a place for geeks/nerds to come together and share their geekiness and obsession, and be accepted for who they are. Everybody welcomed and appreciated beause there were so few of us that it was hard to find any close to you in real life. But now I feel like it's an exclusive club for creatively talented and popular people. You have to be famous in order to have friends; you have to have friends in order to be famous.
Sometimes I wish there was a community for losers/rejects of the various fandoms. Where people who try but aren't very good can make friends and support each other. Where people give feedback and try to encourage and help each other instead of gravitating around the famous people. Where caring and being a friend is more important than quality of creative production.
I don't mean "caring" as in "dealing with each others' real life problems" but... just trying to see everybody and help each other feel better about themselves as part of a fandom. I don't mean "quality" as in "any crap will be praised as the second coming of Roddenberry" ( or whoever originated the subject for the fandom ) but "if you put passion and effort into it, it's worthy of some sort of feedback, no matter how far it is from the quality of the popular peoples' work".
But yeah, I suppose identifying yourself as a "loser" and joining a community revolving around making each other feel less like losers isn't something people want to do. It sounds like "special education" or whatever you call it, for kids who can't keep up with the majority of their age group. Or like little kids' competitions where "everybody wins". Maybe this is a wrong, twisted way for an adult among adults to think. You measure up, or you go away. I don't know. But sometimes you just want to be a part of something even though you can't compete well enough to belong with "the popular kids".
I spend so much time lurking discussions, reading fanfics, looking at fan art and listening to fan music ( which is a big thing in Pony fandom! ) that I've become convinced that there's nothing I could add to any fandom. Everything TV/movie canon has already been discussed in more depth than I could ever manage, everybody writes and draws better than I could ever learn ( or even if I practised a lot, everybody else would also improve in that time, maintaining the distance, or the fandom would die in the meantime ) and... yeah... gay porn..! :-/
I feel like fandom is... well, I used to think it was a place for geeks/nerds to come together and share their geekiness and obsession, and be accepted for who they are. Everybody welcomed and appreciated beause there were so few of us that it was hard to find any close to you in real life. But now I feel like it's an exclusive club for creatively talented and popular people. You have to be famous in order to have friends; you have to have friends in order to be famous.
Sometimes I wish there was a community for losers/rejects of the various fandoms. Where people who try but aren't very good can make friends and support each other. Where people give feedback and try to encourage and help each other instead of gravitating around the famous people. Where caring and being a friend is more important than quality of creative production.
I don't mean "caring" as in "dealing with each others' real life problems" but... just trying to see everybody and help each other feel better about themselves as part of a fandom. I don't mean "quality" as in "any crap will be praised as the second coming of Roddenberry" ( or whoever originated the subject for the fandom ) but "if you put passion and effort into it, it's worthy of some sort of feedback, no matter how far it is from the quality of the popular peoples' work".
But yeah, I suppose identifying yourself as a "loser" and joining a community revolving around making each other feel less like losers isn't something people want to do. It sounds like "special education" or whatever you call it, for kids who can't keep up with the majority of their age group. Or like little kids' competitions where "everybody wins". Maybe this is a wrong, twisted way for an adult among adults to think. You measure up, or you go away. I don't know. But sometimes you just want to be a part of something even though you can't compete well enough to belong with "the popular kids".
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