“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
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Respect to Kirkman for ending it his way, but this news pisses me off.
Pretty sure they met on Mad Men, too.
Really not happy with the way Carlson is being paraded around as some hero despite her willingness to shill Fox’s bullshit for years. Obviously she didn’t deserve the treatment she got from Ailes, but it’ll be interesting if the miniseries’ portrayal of her has any more nuance. I tend to doubt it, though.
I wouldn’t say that *fandom* is inherently toxic so much as I’d say that *obsession* is inherently toxic. And that’s across the boards— entertainment, sports, political opinions, food choices, mobile operating systems, and, yes, even religion. Anything. Obviously, it’s possible to have intense interests without…
When you start building your identity around the stuff you enjoy and the communities you engage with, you lose your perspective on those things.
It is the same misogynistic, xenophobic, racist trash that poisons literally all discourse in America. Just pig-ignorant, angry men who feel everything in this world should cater to their own narrow perspective.
Yep. The same things that have plagued sports, politics, and religion for however many years are now also extending to pretty much anything related to pop culture.
I completely agree that fandom and religion are fundamentally the same thing (“new” or “old” is arguable, I think they’re literally the same thing — that religion is a particularly fanatical form of fandom that requires literal belief in the source material), but that doesn’t mean that either is inherently toxic. Both…
That’s what I’m doing, that’s why I tapped out of these fandoms. I still watch all the things I love but I don’t engage outside of people I specifically know which is sad in a way. Science Fiction used to bring people together and let them talk at cons and on the Usenet. Now twitter and Facebook have given us such…
Honestly...it isn’t “fandom”.
Right, it’s all about Gatekeeping, you can’t possibly like this thing now, because I’ve loved this thing for a long time. And I mean look, the ability to gatekeep is at an all time high, you get on a website and yell at people anonymously, and I can understand the attraction to it because pop culture has so…
I think that’s the nail on the head.
I have to say over the last decade I’ve tapped out of every cultural element I’ve considered myself a fan of due to toxic fandom. Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek, comics, video games, the fantasy literary community, the science-fiction literary community. I’m not saying it was better when we were younger, when fandom…
A subset of this are those I call “Canon Crunchers,” who flip out whenever anything dares contradict their beloved “canon.” To me, this is just another aspect of entitlement and zealotry — because in the end, regardless of whatever personal truths we glean from them, these are “just” fictional shows/movies/books/video…
The thing I hate most about this explosion in “fandom” is it completely disables a persons ability to have a rational conversation about a particular work of art, both in terms of pros and cons.
Remember, that’s not his real hairline.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I too use “Not great, Bob!” all the time, but also “THAT’S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR!” and “Average” (from Roger: “Couldn’t sleep. Stayed up, watched the sunrise.” Don: “How was it?” Roger: “Average.”).