I dunno...I've been thinking about the issue a lot this last week or so and...I just feel like I don't really belong in Transformers fandom anymore. I seem to see things totally differently than everyone else seems to see them these days, which is likely my own fault because I've made it all too much my own, in a sense. The end result is that there
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A sad Whirlwind
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Or maybe you're just maturing or something.
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If you don't come back to the fandom, I know many people will miss you...even me, though we've barely "met." I know I like your fics - all I've read so far. And if this is something you enjoy, don't let people who don't see eye-to-eye with you turn you off from it. To each their own.
I hope you come to a decision that's best for you, and if that is indeed leaving the fandom, well, it's your decision. :-)
And age is just a number...fans can be fans no matter the chronological elapsed time. :-)
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Well, depends on what it is you want from fandom. Are you in fandom because you love the source material, and love to develop ideas about it, and to write/create stuff based on your ideas? Or are you in fandom mainly for socialising, and to share your ideas with like-minded people? (I'm assuming it's a little from column A, a little from column B.")
I can see how if the social aspect is what you want, it can get frustrating if the other fans, well, aren't like-minded.
So... I don't really have advice, other than, "take a break from fandom if and as long as you need to." But I think you've already arrived at that conclusion, haven't you?
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So, I'm taking a break from all fanfic writing for a while, in order to use the time that I would have spent on it on other things that I like to do but that I have been neglecting. Like music. Like learning Flash. Like planting flowers. Like just reading books. Like anything else, really. Eventually, as I said, I'll go back to writing because I can't not write, but at this point I'm imagining that when I do go back it'll be in a very low-profile sort of way. The people who want to read my stuff will be able to find it, but I'm not going to shove it in their faces anymore. If people want me ( ... )
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