fandom yay and nay

[schmerica]

I actually went to check out the fanfic_hate thread on Smallville, but it turned out to be incredibly horribly boring. Honestly, if I'm going to go to the effort and guilt to go through all of that, you'd think it could at least be entertaining in a car-crash or I'm-a-horrible-person-for-reading-this sort of way. Instead it just seems to be round #8,000,124 of the "Smallville is mean to newbies" argument.

On the other hand, I am anticipating the ds_undercover stories with much excitement. So much new fic by so many cool people! All at once! Whee!

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[not-vacillating.livejournal.com]

...and yet, I've had almost nothing but positive experiences with HP from the moment I wandered in, knowing nobody. You know, it strikes me that all these discussions about friendliness in particular fandoms boil down to two things: (1) where you first pop up in a fandom (i.e., what corner of the fandom) and (2) how much you care about being in whatever you perceive to be the "in crowd"

Yeah. I'm not much worried about (2), but I think I was unlucky with (1). There are some really great people in HP fandom as a whole-- and I'm starting to come back to it-- but my experience is that you have to tread carefully to get the nice people and not the crazy people.

It also seems to me that the main thing that creates BNFs is not the BNFs or potential BNFs themselves, but the fear of BNFs. I've never actually encountered a BNF who was seriously trying to make a cabal, only people who were complaining that cabals existed.

I'm not directing this toward you...just using the universal "you" *g*

Yeah, understood. *g*