#fandom elitism

[soggydotcat]

Just saw another "if you ship or write fluff fics, you aren't enjoying thestory correctly!!!1 The author should be disgusted by all of you!!!" take and you know what, they ARE annoying. I may not like or be comfortable with all of it but you can do whatever the fuck you want forever /gen

[thegirlfromstationsquare]

Me, a Sonic fan watching the other fandoms' burn:

[cyanide-latte]

"lol u have such basic bitch taste"

I mean maybe I do but at least I know what I like, I'm having fun and I'm not laughing at other people for having fun with whatever they like, but go off I guess.

[mysticdragon3md3]

GOOD SMILE COMPANY - English

“The first of the original characters to join the Nendoroid Doll series!”

I’m so sick of the commenters on Good Smile’s Facebook, just calling these new Nendoroid Doll figures ugly or just dismissing them as rip off of Cu-Poche.  Hey, I don’t like their proportions either, but if you’d spend any time on Tumblr with figure photography communities, you’d see a definite market for this. So many Nendoroid collectors are putting Nendo heads on Obitsu bodies, and they have been for a long while now.  All they want is to be able to sew their own clothes for their Nendoroids and pose them a little more.  Why should Volks take away Good Smile’s Nendoroid collectors?  Do casual figure collectors even know how to get a hold of Volks ball-joint dolls? I’ve been to Volks USA, attended BJD collectors panels, and I still am too intimidated to buy BJDs off of forums, because I still feel so unfamiliar with it all, and scared off by the even HIGHER price range.  I think Nendoroid Dolls are really convenient for newer figure collectors who don’t even know what BJDs are.  How are they supposed to get Obitsu bodies?  Well, isn’t it convenient that Good Smile is now giving them a comparable option.  And for the people complaining that it’s just a clone of Cu-poches:  Nendoroid Dolls are 4cm taller.  And if you work in miniatures, or have made figure accessories before, you know that makes a big difference.  But in either case---So what?  Cu-poche was created to compete with Nendoroids.  Same with Bandai Tamashii Nations’s Chibi-Arts line.  There’s room for ALL the chibis!  Though personally, not only is the Nendoroid line full of more character options, but I prefer their sculpts, and their parts seem a little more interchangeable (even with just the head options).  And if people are willing to put Nendoroid heads onto Obitsu bodies, then you know customizability is important to them.  So quit dumping on other people’s niche.  

As for me, I’ll keep collecting Nendoroid More with my Nendoroids.  But you Nendoroid Doll fans should have fun, without other Nendoroid collectors making us all look like elitists just waiting to rail against other people’s preferences.  

[greatrunner]

Going through old fanfiction archives for Lord of the Rings, and it’s super easy to be reminded of how elitist the book-reading segment of the LOTR fandom was around the time the movies came out.

And it goes without saying, that I’m not talking about the folk that could, y’know, actually critique a story based on its merits, and offer betas, or advice where the writers could improve.

But, them “old folk” (as I would call them at 13 yrs) throwing fits at (what were likely at the time) teenagers and young adults writing “movieverse fanfiction” about something they were super into (at the time), with no immediate preoccupation to read the books (they’d get there eventually, everybody did in a pre-wiki age) if they hadn’t already, because it didn’t adhere to “Tolkien’s canon” or because “the movie isn’t canon” among other things.

Like, folk couldn’t write an alternate universe fanfic without someone rolling up into a review box without saying “Tolkien wouldn’t do that” or something (nigga, Tolkien is dead, first off, and second, its their fanfic they do what they want to). I remember that being a big reason why LOTR book snobs hated Fanfiction.net and Livejournal.com, and created these basic html fanfiction websites to enforce “book canon only” rules.

'Twas fucking ridiculous, and that mentality still mingles about in the fandom, though I suspect most of the folk who behaved that way are now far outnumbered by the teenagers and YAs they railed at once upon a time, who I like to think are less rabid and not beholden to book snobbery, but, hey, fandom is nothing if not a vicious cycle of fuckery.

[milestaylorcosplay]

hey comic book elitists jsyk books take exponentially longer to read than movies do to watch

[sazandorable]

sometimes (often...) i see homages to a thing i love and i get so excited but then i keep seeing mistakes or things that the artist/creator did that seem just wrong or a strange comment and i go “wait, how could you possibly say/do/think that”

and often the thing is very good so i feel like such an elitist like who am i to say “not a true fan!!!!!” but it bugs me so much...

well, the very worst pet peeve is comics or fanarts that make a statement playing on a perceived flaw of something i love AND ARE ACTUALLY COMPLETELY WRONG ABOUT IT like the ever-popular “pokémon: you force pets to beat each other up” when actually pokémon canonically tend to enjoy battling and there’s no forcing (except in special cases that ARE treated as abuse), or when people act like something in newer games is weird or like it’s childhood-ruining to realize that a Pokémon was almost eaten or killed, hello, pokémon eat each other, and there are pokémon cemetaries, it’s completely normal

or the “hunger games is a ripoff battle royale!!!” excuse me the concept dates back to gladiator games battle royale did not at all invent it

or in general when something is pointed out as “making no sense” or being ridiculous when it’s actually justified in-universe

those are just infuriating, but gah, homages to like Zelda or Ghibli that fall completely flat because they’re just based on the stereotypes just... make me so sad.

[ibex-ascendant]

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