Fannish 50 2025 #1
Mar. 3rd, 2025 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elyusionDoing this challenge because I like challenges and planned entries and schedules and lists and things of that nature. Let's see if I actually make it to 50 before the end of the year! For it, I compiled a list of questions (taken from some links in this entry and often slightly reworded) to complete in a note-taking app, and I'll answer them in random order.
#1: How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s)?
Answering this one first because it's been on my mind for a while.
More than a few of the things I like most seem to be popular with girly-girls, so the other people in those fandoms seem very nice and sweet, generally pleasant people to talk too. Now, to a degree, I think it's superficial as hell, like how they say people with Sanrio-themed layouts are the devil, but of course some assholes aren't obvious assholes in every situation. It's not nice to assume someone sucks because they use pink heart emojis too much.
Beyond that, besides just being too sweet, they're overwhelmingly heterosexual. A fair amount are bisexual, but things like otome games and shoujo manga generally (but! not! always!) feature heterosexual romance, so yea. A lot of women who like men. It makes me, a non-woman who doesn't even like men, feel a little left out or straight-up confused for some conversations, but I completely understand why and I'm not going to ask they change things for me. To a degree, I'm technically in their space. But it means I can't say a lot, because the things I think and feel will definitely sound crazy to them. Especially when they're being all normal and vanilla and I'm a borderline(?) sadist to these poor men.
Speaking of, sometimes I feel like I straight-up have empathy issues. Like, I've seen people say Virche Evermore goes on too long for how sad it is. I don't agree? And how can something be "too sad for too long"? The desired effect of the story was sadness, so most of the story will be sad. Are you depressed reading it? Then they did their job. Well, I guess I understand in that these days I might get irritated if a story is too happy for too long 😭 See, I look like such a bad person... I can't connect to anyone based on my interests because I'm evil and not a girl.
Let's see, I also refuse to play the vast majority of gacha games because I think they're evil and we need to go back to making normal single-payment games, or at least games with paid purchases that aren't a damn gamble. (There are exceptions, but maybe I'll talk about them and why I still play them another day.) So I can't follow back fans of those things on socials unless they also like something I feel strongly about and post it often, but how often does that happen?
And then I think I'm kind of an elitist or something, so I'm too shy to talk sometimes because I know what I'm going to say sounds assholeish. For example: Why are there so few Angelique fans these days? You guys are big fans of Japanese media and you 1. haven't learned Japanese, and 2. don't want to play the game that birthed your favorite ones? <- See, I'm aware this is a jerk thing to say, so I don't say it. But I'm thinking it. I guess I'm just salty no one cares about my favorite things/I missed the hype train by being born too late like some kind of idiot. (Honestly I'm hypothetically up for doing a live-translation for complete strangers who wanna play, but I don't think a stranger wants to hear fanservice and love confessions and stuff coming from my voice).
That's all I've got for now. Might come back and edit this later.
#1: How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s)?
Answering this one first because it's been on my mind for a while.
More than a few of the things I like most seem to be popular with girly-girls, so the other people in those fandoms seem very nice and sweet, generally pleasant people to talk too. Now, to a degree, I think it's superficial as hell, like how they say people with Sanrio-themed layouts are the devil, but of course some assholes aren't obvious assholes in every situation. It's not nice to assume someone sucks because they use pink heart emojis too much.
Beyond that, besides just being too sweet, they're overwhelmingly heterosexual. A fair amount are bisexual, but things like otome games and shoujo manga generally (but! not! always!) feature heterosexual romance, so yea. A lot of women who like men. It makes me, a non-woman who doesn't even like men, feel a little left out or straight-up confused for some conversations, but I completely understand why and I'm not going to ask they change things for me. To a degree, I'm technically in their space. But it means I can't say a lot, because the things I think and feel will definitely sound crazy to them. Especially when they're being all normal and vanilla and I'm a borderline(?) sadist to these poor men.
Speaking of, sometimes I feel like I straight-up have empathy issues. Like, I've seen people say Virche Evermore goes on too long for how sad it is. I don't agree? And how can something be "too sad for too long"? The desired effect of the story was sadness, so most of the story will be sad. Are you depressed reading it? Then they did their job. Well, I guess I understand in that these days I might get irritated if a story is too happy for too long 😭 See, I look like such a bad person... I can't connect to anyone based on my interests because I'm evil and not a girl.
Let's see, I also refuse to play the vast majority of gacha games because I think they're evil and we need to go back to making normal single-payment games, or at least games with paid purchases that aren't a damn gamble. (There are exceptions, but maybe I'll talk about them and why I still play them another day.) So I can't follow back fans of those things on socials unless they also like something I feel strongly about and post it often, but how often does that happen?
And then I think I'm kind of an elitist or something, so I'm too shy to talk sometimes because I know what I'm going to say sounds assholeish. For example: Why are there so few Angelique fans these days? You guys are big fans of Japanese media and you 1. haven't learned Japanese, and 2. don't want to play the game that birthed your favorite ones? <- See, I'm aware this is a jerk thing to say, so I don't say it. But I'm thinking it. I guess I'm just salty no one cares about my favorite things/I missed the hype train by being born too late like some kind of idiot. (Honestly I'm hypothetically up for doing a live-translation for complete strangers who wanna play, but I don't think a stranger wants to hear fanservice and love confessions and stuff coming from my voice).
That's all I've got for now. Might come back and edit this later.
