me, exhausted: wanting to see fans engage more critically with a beloved thing is fine, especially if you feel it’s getting a free pass, but the lack of said criticism doesn’t automatically mean those fans are bad and lazy for prioritising their own enjoyment
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me, crawling into a hole & shovelling dirt on myself: the current fandom lifecycle of Enjoyment - Criticism - Reengagement - Emotional Detachment - Dislike is unhealthy. I wish we could think critically about media without concluding imperfect things don’t deserve love, And Yet
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me, speaking thru a mouthful of dirt & toadstools: endless fandom discourse acts on us emotionally like an ongoing argument with a partner, souring us to positives b/c we can’t access them anymore w/out engaging in dispute. the problem isn’t criticism but constant exposure to it
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me, mushrooms for eyes, a toad for a skull: just disengage sometimes. go outside. close tumblr. returning to an old fandom shouldn’t feel like visiting a grave. the world beats us down enough as it is. someone will always be wrong on the internet. shh.
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me, decaying in the forest loam: you know those scenes in SFF where the psychic gets overwhelmed & exhausted & nosebleedy & collapses from Seeing Into Too Many Heads & Feeling Too Many Feelings All At Once? that is you, scrolling endlessly thru tumblr discourse. Stop. Know Peace.
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I think this can be particularly pronounced when people rediscover a piece of media -- particularly through streaming -- and leap all over it without considering that there may have already been literal decades of fan thought/analysis around those same issues already
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Not to say that new voices aren't welcome. Watching a few eps of something and deciding that it's distasteful/not for you is fine. But doing that and then writing A Takedown Thinkpiece without engaging with anything others have written around it is lazy at best
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