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Sep. 15th, 2003 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsThere's some crazy stuff going on in the nsync fandom just now. Sometimes I think that fandom just wants to destroy itself, it's so easy to lose sight of why you're a fan in the first place. I've seen it in every fandom I've been in to one extent or another.
There's always something, like in TS there seems to be this void between the slash and gen fans. I just don't get it. If you don't want to read slash or gen that's fine, but there's no reason to look at fans on the so called other side with suspicion. I'm bi fictional but on one list I've felt so uncomfortable as slashers were dismissed as seeing things that weren't there, always pushing slash etc. Then there's the whole blair/jim babe thing that drives me nuts. I've been in TS for about 2 years now and I can predict when the huge 'well Jim's a closed off idiot who repressed Blair' or 'Blair has no respect for Jim' arguments will erupt. You'd think that fans of TS would be able to get along, and I'd say mostly they do, but I've seen fights onlist that baffle me.
I've been driven to screaming point on the MX boards because so many people hate certain characters. Just tell me how you can post on a board that Brennan/Shalimar any of them should die and be a fan of the show? You can't! MX is a *team* show. Yes, like some characters better than others but don't hate. When people are posting that Brennan should die can't they remember the first episodes? When he allows Jesse the time to phase and shots through him, or the whole wedding scene 'what no hug?' or in 'Whose Woods..." Jesse holding Brennan's head in his lap when he was knocked out. Or in Russian Roulette when Jesse risks his life to get the pushka and later when they're there supporting Brennan when he thinks he can't charge up then blasts the whole damn computer system? Can the fans not remember how they felt as they watched as the place exploded and the whole team walking out, dressed to kill. That was Mutant X. Brennan, Jesse, Emma, Shalimar and Adam. And to want one of that team to be gone is pretty pathetic in my eyes.
This is getting to be all about MX and I didn't mean it to be. I'm just pissed how fans want to attack the thing that they say they love so much. No one knows what's happening with JC's album, no one knows what Justin said/did/wants to do. So why fight about it?
You're a fan, it doesn't matter of what, sparkly dancing boys, mutants, sentinel and guides, mounties, pirates, super heros, spacemen, FBI agents, rat bastards...anything. Just enjoy it and stop the in fighting.
There's always something, like in TS there seems to be this void between the slash and gen fans. I just don't get it. If you don't want to read slash or gen that's fine, but there's no reason to look at fans on the so called other side with suspicion. I'm bi fictional but on one list I've felt so uncomfortable as slashers were dismissed as seeing things that weren't there, always pushing slash etc. Then there's the whole blair/jim babe thing that drives me nuts. I've been in TS for about 2 years now and I can predict when the huge 'well Jim's a closed off idiot who repressed Blair' or 'Blair has no respect for Jim' arguments will erupt. You'd think that fans of TS would be able to get along, and I'd say mostly they do, but I've seen fights onlist that baffle me.
I've been driven to screaming point on the MX boards because so many people hate certain characters. Just tell me how you can post on a board that Brennan/Shalimar any of them should die and be a fan of the show? You can't! MX is a *team* show. Yes, like some characters better than others but don't hate. When people are posting that Brennan should die can't they remember the first episodes? When he allows Jesse the time to phase and shots through him, or the whole wedding scene 'what no hug?' or in 'Whose Woods..." Jesse holding Brennan's head in his lap when he was knocked out. Or in Russian Roulette when Jesse risks his life to get the pushka and later when they're there supporting Brennan when he thinks he can't charge up then blasts the whole damn computer system? Can the fans not remember how they felt as they watched as the place exploded and the whole team walking out, dressed to kill. That was Mutant X. Brennan, Jesse, Emma, Shalimar and Adam. And to want one of that team to be gone is pretty pathetic in my eyes.
This is getting to be all about MX and I didn't mean it to be. I'm just pissed how fans want to attack the thing that they say they love so much. No one knows what's happening with JC's album, no one knows what Justin said/did/wants to do. So why fight about it?
You're a fan, it doesn't matter of what, sparkly dancing boys, mutants, sentinel and guides, mounties, pirates, super heros, spacemen, FBI agents, rat bastards...anything. Just enjoy it and stop the in fighting.
