Fandom Thoughts

[unspeakablehorror]

I think I feel uneasy about fandom culture in general because I recognize it as an obsession, and it's so easy for that obsession to be twisted into something evil.  And not because of whatever characters or whatever a person happens to enjoy, but because it is an obsession, it can ultimately be prioritized over other things, or over treating other people with compassion.  And that's why everyone in fandom thinks fandom is terrible--because they notice when this malevolence is directed at them or their friends or favorites.  But how many of us realize when we are directing it at others? 

ramble-tags: Am I giving up my obsessions?, lol no, I just think it's interesting, that it's not just people outside of fandom culture who emphatically hate fandom culture, but also those inside of it, and like, that's the norm, like people will often only defend their friends or people who like what they like, in the way that they like it, but most the people in fandom, are as likely, if not more so, to label fans in that fandom as terrible, as people outside the fandom do