Post by Sporky on Jan 22, 2014 12:55:47 GMT -5
So yeah, the last blog thread I made here just makes me shudder in shame and embarrassment and I'd rather not delve back into that again. So this one is gonna be a fresh start, just like my return here!!
So first of all, lemme talk about why I'm back: I've been utterly miserable in my latest fandom.
Oh, sure, I was all super duper gung ho for it when I well and truly left last time, but now? Meugh, no. No no no no that fandom doesn't jive with me at ALL. The thing itself, a webcomic, is just sort of there for me now. I only keep up just to keep up and I like it as a setting more than a story at this point. It's the fandom and the people in it, though, that have totally soured me.
I just don't get along with the mindset of a lot of people in it at all. Too much focus on shipping, too much focus on making characters both canon and fanmade miserable for the sheer sake of it, too much.... defense and apologism for gross scumbag abusive male characters.
And the arguments, oy. Debates and arguments and almost WARS over biology headcanons for the webcomic's alien species, especially if you thought they were mostly humanlike instead of having all sorts of out there xenobiology ideas. Plus, worst of all for me, arguments on whether or not fancharacters should be taken seriously. Way too many people advocating that fancharacter creators should just throw out all the setting's rules and do whatever.
It just made me miserable and self-hating off and on. I decided, during my last fit of misery, to try and come back here again. Star Wars never gave me any problems like that at all, everything was always cool to me. And SWU... SWU is just the best RP atmosphere I've ever been in, I adore this place.
If I can stick around? Devote myself to SWU again? I'll be happy again. SWU always made me happy, and even just the brief time I've been back now has made me happy and excited, although to be honest I'm a little scared of making new characters again, I've been out of it for so long.
But, yeah, point is I was unhappy with my other fandom so I came back here! Hopefully to stay.
So first of all, lemme talk about why I'm back: I've been utterly miserable in my latest fandom.
Oh, sure, I was all super duper gung ho for it when I well and truly left last time, but now? Meugh, no. No no no no that fandom doesn't jive with me at ALL. The thing itself, a webcomic, is just sort of there for me now. I only keep up just to keep up and I like it as a setting more than a story at this point. It's the fandom and the people in it, though, that have totally soured me.
I just don't get along with the mindset of a lot of people in it at all. Too much focus on shipping, too much focus on making characters both canon and fanmade miserable for the sheer sake of it, too much.... defense and apologism for gross scumbag abusive male characters.
And the arguments, oy. Debates and arguments and almost WARS over biology headcanons for the webcomic's alien species, especially if you thought they were mostly humanlike instead of having all sorts of out there xenobiology ideas. Plus, worst of all for me, arguments on whether or not fancharacters should be taken seriously. Way too many people advocating that fancharacter creators should just throw out all the setting's rules and do whatever.
It just made me miserable and self-hating off and on. I decided, during my last fit of misery, to try and come back here again. Star Wars never gave me any problems like that at all, everything was always cool to me. And SWU... SWU is just the best RP atmosphere I've ever been in, I adore this place.
If I can stick around? Devote myself to SWU again? I'll be happy again. SWU always made me happy, and even just the brief time I've been back now has made me happy and excited, although to be honest I'm a little scared of making new characters again, I've been out of it for so long.
But, yeah, point is I was unhappy with my other fandom so I came back here! Hopefully to stay.