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They warned you

Look but don't stare

Come find me ...

If you dare.

If You Dare - Tech Thieves (followed by)

Glass Heart - Tommee Profitt

This glass heart ... is shattering to pieces ...

... Is this how it ends?

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Your Life is Not Your Own

Do you think Sherlock was suicidal and came very close to ‘taking his life’ but didn’t because he had already seen how much pain his death caused John, even though John still resents him at this point?

Because I do

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Stiefvater and the Audience Ga(s)p

I was reading through Stiefvater's blog post about her health struggles, specifically thinking about the mentions of the rather predictable fandom response to the resulting errors in The Raven King, her absences from touring, etc. I was thinking about how fandom-- and online culture in general-- tends to catastrophize, assume the worst of people but specifically creators. Naturally, that's if we're not idolizing our faves. Maybe you can't have one without the other, I'm not sure.

Even when I agree in principle-- for ex, about queerbaiting issues-- in the end I disagree when the discussion frequently turns to intent. Some people do talk about queerbaiting regardless of creator intent, but that's a touchy topic and a difficult balance to strike, isn't it? If you're upset, you want to blame someone. And if you see something wrong, the default assumption (even if it's a reasoning error) is that it's intentional. No one thinks to imagine the thing that irritates or hurts them is just a largely meaningless accident, let alone a result of totally unrelated personal issues like with Stiefvater. Surely it's got to be related, people reason. Surely it's about you.

However, the fact is, 95% of the time, I'm guessing it's not, in fact, about you, or me, or us (or even them). It's about the creator(s) and whatever their needs, desires and personal issues are. So yeah, I'm guessing most creators don't do anything either for or against fandom, most of the time. Is that an ugly truth, or just boring?

Sometimes creators want to keep you in suspense. That does happen. JK Rowling and Moffat, for example, are both fans of playing with fans' minds in that way. But it's not personal. It's a part of the performance, rather. In the case of shocking plot reveals, your shock as the audience is part of the theater of it all. Actually, this kind of audience manipulation is probably as old as stories. I'd imagine Shakespeare must have been a fan of the shocking reveal/reversal where possible. Romeo and Juliet is full of that sort of thing. And that play really plays with the audience, too. I only imagine it was limited by the fact that it wasn't a long-term serial. Alas.

Anyway, back to the point. Anytime someone assumes the creator(s) are out to get you (or us) just for kicks and/or for some even more nefarious reason, I'd take a step back and indulge in some healthy skepticism. Not that I expect this to happen anytime soon, alas.