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[android_raptor]

Okay wow UC Gundam fandom, so you insist on bashing certain characters so much that if you find a post defending them on a support community for bad fandom behavior, you have to reply trying to justify that bullshit and call the person creepy and obsessive for defending characters they like? Wow, okay, way to prove my point about how you guys can't

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[android_raptor]

http://rabidfanssuck.livejournal.com/166996.html anon about halfway through the comments.

[beata_malfoy]

Ugh, I went to the link and looked up the guy's comment:

"Regardless, I think it might be more that people find it a little creepy/obsessive that you're so focused on a character who's series is long-gone (and short to begin with) and who's role wasn't even that noteworthy."

First of all, grammar nazi: "Who's" should be "whose". Second, I guess we'll also have to call the fandoms for Degrassi Junior High/High, Star Trek, and My So-Called Life "creepy and obsessive" because they also like to chat about characters from series that got cancelled decades ago. While we're at it, every classic literature fandom is also "creepy and obsessive" since their favourite books are either hundreds of years old, or a few/several decades old. You'd be hard pressed to find just one fandom where absolutely no one has at least one favourite character whose motivations and personality they love to discuss more than others, regardless of whether or not the character's role is "noteworthy".

[android_raptor]

Exactly. And I guarantee I wouldn't be getting nearly the shit I do if the character I like was a fan favorite. I mean, this is a fandom that has lengthy discussions on how fictional giant robots work, which no one thinks is weird or anything. They're pretty hypocritical when it comes to what they think is or isn't worth deeper analysis or fans, and it all revolves around whether or not a majority of the fandom likes the thing it seems.