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bay_alexison ([personal profile] bay_alexison) wrote2021-01-19 09:20 pm
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Snowflake Challenge Day 10

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Challenge #10

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I admit I've been feeling eh over certain aspects of fandom. At certain points, I thought I belonged to a group, only for some people to ignore me and favor someone else. Besides that, there would be harassment and gatekeeping going around ("why ship x when you can ship y" for instance). However, I learn that it's better to have fun with a few close friends than to try to fit in.

So, a short love letter to my friends that I bonded over various fandoms and that I still talk to even when we go on to have different interests. Sometimes we might share new interests, which is nice.

Also special shoutout to my friends from the Pokemon fandom that I've been friends with the longest. Many of them also support my niche story and ship, which I was convinced that no one but me is interested in. Some of them also convinced me that maybe I should seriously think about attempting original writing.

The FE3H fandom deserves an honorable mention, too. While it does have its bad side (the harassment and gatekeeping mentioned earlier), there's also the good side. The Felix/Annette community in particular have been very sweet and supportive of one another. Also, the VAs from that game are cool and love to interact with the fans. It's also the series that I enjoy writing at the moment and still have many ideas for.

And I think that's it! Here's hoping 2021 I have a better fandom experience!

With love and fandom,
Bay
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[personal profile] sjh2009 2021-01-20 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry that you've been one of the people who has experienced negativity in fandom. It disappoints me that this happens as it's so unnecessary. There's room in fandom for all people and their fandom pairings and preferences :)

Those friendships that last beyond one fandom and ether move into other fandoms either together or separately, but who still remain friends are the best. They're the people who stick with you through everything and share whatever you're going through.

Thank you for sharing and I hope that 2021 will be a kinder year to you.

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[personal profile] spikedluv 2021-01-20 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom friends are great, especially when you manage to remain friends when you move on to different fandoms!
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[personal profile] tsuki_no_bara 2021-01-20 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
fortunately fandom is a big enough tent that when one corner of it turns toxic, there's another corner that's happy to have you. i'm so glad you found good and supportive sides to your fandoms, and that you're still friends with people even tho you're not in the same fandom(s) any more. being able to make those kinds of friends is really the best.
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2021-01-21 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
hope 2021 is great
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2021-01-24 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks