Tumblr, I am disappoint (aka How Tumblr May Yet Ruin Twin Peaks For Me)

[amatara]

I've been lucky enough never to have been active in a fandom (or at least not been in contact with that particular part of said fandom) where character hatred and My Ship Versus Your Ship were things to worry about. Not that the phenomenon didn't exist at all in 'my' fandoms, but it was rare enough that you could avoid it by just being moderately

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[nemo_everbeing]

This is why the only tags I tend to search either involve adorable baby animals. Because fandoms are crazy. Even on LJ we aren't safe from the weird partisan crazy that infects fannish minds. I mean, I expected it from the Buffy fandoms, because they were very popular there for a while, and followed by a very young, active and passionate audience, but 'The Dresden Files' and the 'Metal Gear Solid' were insane too, and those properties aren't nearly so mainstream. I guess it's why most of my friends on LJ and people whose journals and suggestions I follow are always fans of even nichier stuff like 'Adam Adamant Lives!' (cult show from the 60s). Because there are maybe four of us, and we're all just too happy to know one another exists to argue about minutia

[amatara]

'Sigh' just about covers it, yeah... :( I've almost been taking this personally, as in: "Nooooooo, Twin Peaks, my darling fandom, why are you suddenly so full of fail!?" And if it was ire about the cancellation or, say, the second-season decline in quality, I wouldn't mind that much; it's the sheer pettiness (not to mention the mysogyny, blegh!) of what people are ranting about, and how easily words like 'hate' or 'bitch' or 'idiot' are flung around, that gets to me. That said, I'm not at all in good position to judge if LJ as a whole is very different. All I can say is that on LJ I've always found it relatively easy to shelter from that kind of stuff. I spent a short time in the Harry Potter fandom, for instance, and while I know it has a reputation, I never had much trouble steering clear of the viciousness; it was just a matter of picking the right comms to watch and the more sensible people to friend, and that was it. Whereas on tumblr, I'm finding it a lot harder to be selective

[mithen]

*sighs with you* Every fandom finds its own way to fail. New fandoms are full of crazy, but older fandoms, which you THINK would get over it, tend to ossify into really clear camps with fracture lines that never heal. I'm in Blakes 7 fandom, a show that ended about 25 years ago, and on the mailing list (old skool!) like once a month someone brings up whether or not Blake is a hero or a terrorist and off we go into the same cycle of arguments that never convince a soul. It's just really depressing to see such things replicate themselves on new platforms!

From RenMorris

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So I know you posted this awhile back but I've been thinking about this.

Those people who post that stuff? They're like five or less peeps who don't really interact with the fandom at all otherwise. Its gross and nasty but they kind of just spew hate and leave. Every now and then someone posts something negative but they never stay. Its weird.

I pretty much abandoned an RP account I had set up when one of them contacted me. Those people are just really weird.

Wow this is kind of a mess, sorry. Uh I just wanted to say those people are really hardly any part of the fandom at all and there is a nice little group on tumblr we're just pretty disorganized.

Re: From RenMorris

[amatara]

Well, I was probably just really unlucky to arrive on Tumblr just when the Twin Peaks vitriol seemed to be at its worst, hence my pretty vehement reaction. There was one point where it seemed half of what was in the Twin Peaks tag had to do with bashing one character or another, and that kind of thing just turns me off big time. :( I have the impression it's not nearly as bad anymore at the moment, so I've been cautiously starting to follow the Twin Peaks tag again. Anyway, I follow a few people who consistently post lovely stuff, like you and citydin and sultan-of-sentiment, and really enjoy watching you guys squee, so. :) The reason I'm not posting much these day isn't any aversion from Tumblr fandom rather than it just takes time and energy, of which I don't have that much to spare these days, but... Anyway, I just wanted to thank you to come here and reassure me; it's appreciated. :) And don't worry, I'm still on Tumblr - just not as active as I was at first.