Fandom

[mrv3000]

DW fandom has made me cranky of late. Some days it's just really hard to be zen about it, especially when the fandom group you're in is constantly accused of being these rabid, vicious fans -- but no one ever POINTS to any examples other than shippers having the gall to defend themselves in a D/R community or in their own journals, and I've yet to see a D/R shipper storm a Martha community -- while at the same time being kicked at, being called stupid and ignorant and 16-year-olds because what we ship is flat-out wrong. And lately, called even worse for continuing to ship a pairing no longer onscreen.

This essay is by someone who I don't think is a D/R shipper - I believe her main fandom is Harry Potter. But it has all caught her eye, and she directly addresses what's been going on in Who fandom. It's very well thought out.

"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."

A while back, a locked Doctor/Rose community was created because of people just outright tired of the berating. It seemed like a fantastic plan (it still is) - we're playing with our own ball in our own corner. No one bothers no one. But apparently that was also wrong in that the ones doing the kicking no longer had as much stuff to kick - and so now Doctor/Rose shippers are "anti-community" as well for locking stuff up. Which conveniently ignores the fact that they themselves are the reason we have gone elsewhere.

People don't like a pairing. That's fine. Or don't like a character. Also fine. But how that's somehow turned into it being acceptable to smash fans just for liking what they don't, I really will never understand.

Comments

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

I have been dealing with it for so long as from the beginning I was called an AIM stalker (which is ironic as we see who is really doing the stalking,) batshit and everything else under the sun. Like many other Rose and D/R fans, I stepped back and stuck to LJs or places with like minded people. And still they follow us. Are they that bored with S3? Why do they care what shippers like and why is it such a sore point that we are in a locked comm? Do they need to see what we are posting that badly? Martha must truly be a disappointment to them if a year later they are still so obssessed with Rose and what her fans are doing.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just do not understand why they're just so *obsessed* with what we do. Who cares what fans do? There're probably a group of fans that do nothing but make Doctor/Master ship vids to Celine Dion songs and meta all the day long about how they're soul-mates. Why should I care?

Okay, I take part of that back as I think I'd really want to see a Doctor/Master vid to a Celine Dion song. :D

[aj.livejournal.com]

You are so cute. *pinches your cheeks*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

At this moment I really wish Hya was in the DW fandom. Because she would totally do one. :D

[aj.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAAH! OMG. That would be the most beautiful thing EVER.

Sadly, she is packing to go to India atm. DAMN HER STUPID MCATS! Now I don't get to see her until November. Boo. Hiss. Etc.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

India??? Last I heard she was trying to read porn to ducks!

[aj.livejournal.com]

You are so behind the curve, woman. It's really quite sad.

(Graduate research, there till early October, then vacation.)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I am behind the curve! I need some sort of "check in/check out" board with everyone's names on it, saying what they're currently doing and where they are. And if they accidentally eat poisoned hummus.