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June Something - Day 11
Day 11: What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
Pretty much the canon gets me into and out of most fandoms? Or well. The canon gets me in and a new canon makes the old fandom fall away. Or boredom. The only fandom I remember leaving before I had a new one was Stargate: Atlantis. I just… ran out of interest in the stories I was telling, so... I just stopped. And didn't find The Losers for a couple of years, which was a long, uncomfortable slog. I would prefer NOT to ever be between fandoms ever again.
I would love to say that racism or misogyny or queerbaiting or other bigoted, hateful behavior would get me out, but it's been proven with Supernatural that it won't. So I just write stuff to mitigate it, and ignore the shitty parts of canon and fandom.
Those things will make me cooler toward things that aren't my fandom but that I enjoy. Harry Potter, for example, I have noticeably cooled on. I was never in the fandom, but I read stuff, I bought stuff, I saw the movies. I stopped all of that after Jo came out as a TERF. But I do not have any bad feelings about fans still in that fandom. She created something that touched a lot of people, and fans and fandom made it SO MUCH BETTER. And they can grieve and commiserate together about it. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Amen. Sometimes we have to fix what awful writers inflict upon us.
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