Fandom Snowflake day 3

[wallwalker]

snowflake_challenge day 3.

In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I know Snowflake is sunshine and rainbows and singing from the rooftops all the lovely and brilliant that is being in a fandom. But, let’s be honest. Sometimes--like with other things--there are sucky parts, heartbreak parts and just plain UGH parts. Rather than holding onto those slights and resentments, or burying them and pretending they don’t exist, just to have them slowly and almost imperceptibly seep into the rest of the challenges this month, why don’t we just let it all out?

For those of us who celebrate Festivus for the rest of us, this will be familiar. We call it “Airing of Grievances” and it is actually very satisfying, whether you do it tongue in cheek, get introspective or just literally scream.

If you don't want to see ranting, don't click the cut link.

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I don't know when it happened, but at some point in fandom, the idea that something has to be canon to be worthwhile in fanworks became very, very commonplace. (I won't say it appeared because I knew people in 1997 who said the same thing, but since then they've certainly become louder and more obnoxious.) And I'm tired of it. I don't get it.

It's happening with everything, now. Fans have done Twitter campaigns demanding the creators of their favorite show make some relationship or another into the "endgame" relationship, because apparently only that one relationship has any bearing on a person's life. They demand this and stop watching if their demands are not met, or even if they are met (deliberately or not, if the relationship they want does become canon they assume it was because of them anyway) they get upset because it didn't happen exactly how they wanted it to happen.* My dudes, just... IMAGINE the relationship you want them to have. It doesn't have to be shown on a screen or on paper to be fun and valid to think about.

If we could get everything we wanted to see from a particular piece of media, we wouldn't end up thinking about "But what if this happened?" or "Why did X do this instead of Y?" or "How might things have changed if Z was there?" We wouldn't have any space to analyze works. We wouldn't have fandoms. Just... embrace that. Please.


*Which is annoying. I get it. I had it happen to me in the MCU, specifically in Age of Ultron. Difference is, I'm aware the writers weren't just doing it to spite me, personally, which seems to be what some of these fans believe if they don't get their way.

Comments

[wallwalker]

I can get being excited about a theory or whatnot being proved right, but there's this ridiculous notion that people are entitled to have creators hear their ideas and agree with them, and I don't get it.