rusty_halo

I really do not understand why some fans take it upon themselves to lecture other fans about what they should and shouldn’t like.

Like, if you don’t like woobie!Loki, okay fine, don’t read it. There’s plenty of other fic out there for you. Do you think lecturing the fans who like woobie!Loki is going to change their minds? People like what makes them happy. It’s fandom; it’s for fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Leave them alone.

Sure, I will admit that woobie!Loki is somewhat of an extrapolation from canon. So is, say, Steve Rogers having Tony Stark’s baby, but I don’t see the same level of OMG-YOU’RE-DOING-IT-WRONG outrage directed there, at least from within the female-dominated side of fandom.

It’s weird how we are so willing to defend “You kink is not my kink, but your kink is okay” when the kink is sexual, but when it’s narrative, suddenly all bets are off.

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I do not understand tumblr at all (how do you have conversations???) but it gives me things like this so I keep going back and spending inordinate amounts of time there…

(But seriously I do not understand how to interact. The etiquette is incomprehensible. And when I see something interesting, how do I find where people might be talking about it? I mean I guess it’s mostly just like, shiny pictures anyway, not a lot to talk about, but I keep getting glimpses of SPN wank that I can’t find the source of because it’s like, a zillion reblogs with a line added. And what about the etiquette around adding people–is it like eljay with all the ~drama~ if you “defriend”? Is it rude to reblog too much stuff from the same person? Do you get shunned for spamming if you post too often? I’M SO CONFUSED. This is why I never got into Twitter, except Twitter was a lot less tempting because it didn’t give me an endless influx of pictures of Tom Hiddleston looking beautiful…)

Originally published at rusty-halo.com. You can comment here or there.