Someone re-blogged that vent post with tags calling me entitled for what I was saying and you know what? Yes, I am entitled to my opinion on that post- I have been in fandom for more than half my life! Why would I feel like I am not entitled to have an opinion on something I have surrounded my life around to a pretty high degree for a LONG ass time?
If you put your all into something like so many of us have, our life, our time, our SKILL...then I’m pretty fucking sure I am entitled to have an opinion on that.
Yes. People will like what they want to like. They will like it for the amount of time they like it for and they will move on as quick or as fast as they move on from it.
But that does not give you all the right to say to those of us who put our fucking ALL into the fandoms and all we ask back is that you at least return some of the favor with basic shit like interaction, or even just to pass around the things we work on or TELL people about it!
It’s not about in the end how long you stay in a fandom, it’s how you act, and you go about that fandom that makes it important
You like a show and stay in fandom for two months because your mental health can’t take it for too long? That’s perfectly FINE, but what you do in those two weeks are the important part. Did you go around talking about the thing you enjoy? Did you share are you saw that you liked? Did you, when you were talking to your friends about said fandom, share some fics or headcanons you saw and liked? Did you click like on tumblr on a oneshot or did you also reblog it too?
ITS NOT ABOUT HOW LONG YOU ARE HERE IN FANDOM ITS ABOUT HOW FUCKING GOOD OF A TIME YOU MAKE IT. It’s also NOT just YOU here. It’s ALL of us.
And whenever someone brings up mental health into all this, YES we ALL KNOW. Fandom was MADE and FOSTERED by mostly neurodivergent people! I’m one of them!! We all get burned out. We all get those feelings of RSD or feeling like we can’t interact with people, but it’s not even about that. It’s just about doing the bare fucking minimum to PUT BACK just a tiny bit of effort you can.
Can’t add tags to tumblr reblogs? That’s FINE, don’t add tags! Just reblog shit to your account.
Don’t know what to say on a fic after reading it? That’s OKAY, you can just leave an emoji or a fucking string of ‘aoi;saidaisjds;asdads’ and I’m FUCKING POSITIVE that the writer will LOVE it regardless.
Literally, ANYTHING is better than just wading through the world of fandom collecting shit for yourself that you never pass a long, never ‘pay it back’ for and just hoard and hide and move along.
In the end, you wont have anything hoard after all the fucking people who want to put shit INTO the fandom feel like no one actually gives a fuck and moves on with their lives.
