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I know I said I'd have something intelligent or witty to say this month re:meta/headcanon, but I don't. Right now I am just not in the frame of mind to do basically anything productive. Even now I'm not feeling well enough to express all my concerns as precisely as I'd probably like to.
But I am supremely frustrated with some things people in the fandom have been saying, and specifically the continued hate spat at fanfiction.net and the forums there--that there aren't many civil, intelligent discussions there and that the community there. Yes, there are some disagreeable people there. There are disagreements and "drama" on livejournal, too! And about most of the same topics that people get worked up about on ff.net. But there seems to be an undercurrent of disdain for ff.net as being too "immature" or somehow overly prone to drama, and that idea is what irritates me. Because, like many sweeping generalizations, it's not true. I know a lot of people from FE fandom alone who operate largely or solely on ff.net who are really cool people, and usually they're all lumped together as a bunch of troublemaking ingrates that aren't worth "true fandom's" time. I've seen sentiments to this end more than once over my time in fandom, and to be perfectly honest, I just don't think it's fair.
I'm not saying that everyone outside of FF.net believes this (and I'm not aiming this at any one person in particular, but at the feeling), but I've seen enough comments, both anonymous and otherwise, to suggest a level of disdain for ff.net as well as "gamer culture" in general (but that's a whole different can of worms)
Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion, or maybe I'm the only one who's bothered by this. But at the very least I'm tired of grinding my teeth together and telling myself my thoughts have no validity, because hearing all the put-downs leveled at FF.net and the fora really do bother me.
But I am supremely frustrated with some things people in the fandom have been saying, and specifically the continued hate spat at fanfiction.net and the forums there--that there aren't many civil, intelligent discussions there and that the community there. Yes, there are some disagreeable people there. There are disagreements and "drama" on livejournal, too! And about most of the same topics that people get worked up about on ff.net. But there seems to be an undercurrent of disdain for ff.net as being too "immature" or somehow overly prone to drama, and that idea is what irritates me. Because, like many sweeping generalizations, it's not true. I know a lot of people from FE fandom alone who operate largely or solely on ff.net who are really cool people, and usually they're all lumped together as a bunch of troublemaking ingrates that aren't worth "true fandom's" time. I've seen sentiments to this end more than once over my time in fandom, and to be perfectly honest, I just don't think it's fair.
I'm not saying that everyone outside of FF.net believes this (and I'm not aiming this at any one person in particular, but at the feeling), but I've seen enough comments, both anonymous and otherwise, to suggest a level of disdain for ff.net as well as "gamer culture" in general (but that's a whole different can of worms)
Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion, or maybe I'm the only one who's bothered by this. But at the very least I'm tired of grinding my teeth together and telling myself my thoughts have no validity, because hearing all the put-downs leveled at FF.net and the fora really do bother me.