Komaru: Man, I wish I could be as cool as Ibuki.
Kazuichi: You’re just as cool! Just in two different ways.
Komaru: okay, how would you describe my cool?
Kazuichi: Sassy, and a little bit dorky.
Komaru: and Ibuki’s?
Kazuichi: Striking, and a little bit shocking.
Komaru: And yours?
Kazuichi: Swagless, and a little bit pathetic.
Komaru: and you wonder why people keep mistaking you for a bottom.
Kazuichi: I CAN HATE MYSELF AS A TOP JUST FINE!!
Addendum to this last post:
Ships that are 100% fluffy and vanilla and unproblematic make us feel like we’re being gaslit. Like it’s gotta be the stepford wives.
Fandom is so different now and itās becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves.
I just want to enjoy things. I donāt want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately.
Yaāll eat up fandoms, leave artists and writers bone dry and then move on so fucking quickly then fucking wonder where all the Good Fandom Stuff is.
Idk Maybe cherish some things for longer. Reblog stuff. Interact with people. Comment and share.
Fandom is Capitalism now and Iām not being nuanced.
people also seem obsessed with only Doing Fandom about currently active works?
āoh, Iām so sad that show ended! I really miss the fandom!ā who said you have to leave, coward
The only way around that this Fandom Old can see is to Actively Make Your Fandom Fun.
Back in the 90s, the fandom I delurked to join wasnāt the one for my favorite show, wasnāt the most recent thing Iād seen, wasnāt the one with the best fanfiction or anything else.Ā It was the one that made being in the fandom look like a good time.
They had Official Fandom Factions that people declared allegiance to (as many as they wanted) and we had Fandom Wars every six months or so in which the fandom had a fun fanfiction battle in which people competed for their Faction.Ā
Every week we had discussion on a different episode of the show.Ā (This was pretty standard on listservs back in the day.)Ā Ā People created fan works as gifts for other fans in exchange for donated money or time for various causes.Ā (Letter writing campaigns to support the show or encourage dvd releases were common, but also more traditional charity campaigns.)Ā Ā There were giveaways and silly themed days and eventsā¦.
So..I donāt knowā¦if you want to keep a fandom alive once a show has stopped airing, make it fun.Ā Fandoms get bored after a while and the only thing they have to do is have more and more bitter discourse these days.Ā Maybe if we could create elaborate imaginary bases for our faves and launch toilet paper attacks on other fansā bases (yes this is the kind of shit we did) we would all relax a little.Ā
I think we all need a little enrichment in our enclosures, in other words.Ā And if we donāt find that in fandom, we will just move on to the next act of consumption.Ā
Right wing pundits will show some TikTok Femboy on screen as an example of “modern male degeneracy” and you can watch their eyes visibly dilate and their breathing get heavier.