A poll cuz I'm curious

[etrangere]

Usually when your interest in a fandom turns sour, why is that?

Poll fandom sourness

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Comments

[solesakuma]

I actually rather read closed canons and tend to get ideas for fic only after it's closed.

[aiffe]

Bad canon can do this, but sometimes a certain degree of bad is required for me to even want to add anything. (Probably why I stuck in Inuyasha for so long.) I'm one of those poor fools that really really loves where Tsubasa is going, and so I feel reluctant to add anything. Kind of the same with Avatar. My standards are just higher.

I find other fen bashing stuff I like only makes me more interested in a fandom. Wank is still a form of discussion! While I'm arguing about how this character IS SO awesome so STFU, I'm actively thinking about the series. I want to make fanwork of the bashed character or ship to show the world how cool I think they are. When no one cares enough to disagree, that's a bad sign for the fandom.

Sometimes, though, the old fandom didn't do anything wrong, the new one was just particularly shiny.

[busaikko]

As a writer, I *hate hate hate* having to write in a justification for stupid canon into every story (how to get rid of Tonks, raise people back from the dead, etc. etc.). It gets boring. That's one of the joys of the AU, the freedom!