I encounter #1 and #2 more often... and don't get me into RP shipping. Although I personally find it borderline disrespectful to the actors and often outright disrespectful to their SO's, what really bothers me is that many of them seem to have seriously blurred the lines between reality and fiction/headcanon.
The made-up stuff I totally, totally don't get. There's a mini-scandal going around Tumblr in which someone is taking images of Tom Hiddleston at interviews and events and captioning them with things he didn't say :-/
And then there's the way that they'll all latch onto a single meme and write fic of it and reblog it and keep beating it well after it's dead. And if it's something obnoxious, I get so homicidal I start considering joining the Hannibal fandom. (oh god the images with comic sans over them and I CAN'T TUMBLR SAVIOR THEM)
And the ship wars. Do not get me started on the ship wars. I will drop anyone who's involved in actual ship warring like a hot pocket. I mean, there's room in the fandom ocean for each of us to have a whole armada of ships!
And the minor thing that annoys me is fandom in general's tendency to focus on one slash pairing and that's it. Like, where's the Avengers fic that isn't Tony/Steve? Where's the Supernatural fic that's not Sam/Dean or Dean/Cas? It's like The Collective Slash OTP takes over everything, and there's moderate amounts of het and gen and other slash ships, and then femslash is a rare and precious gem.
lol this was more like a rant butI need to vent too.
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Date: 2013-06-01 06:50 am (UTC)From:The made-up stuff I totally, totally don't get. There's a mini-scandal going around Tumblr in which someone is taking images of Tom Hiddleston at interviews and events and captioning them with things he didn't say :-/
And then there's the way that they'll all latch onto a single meme and write fic of it and reblog it and keep beating it well after it's dead. And if it's something obnoxious, I get so homicidal I start considering joining the Hannibal fandom. (oh god the images with comic sans over them and I CAN'T TUMBLR SAVIOR THEM)
And the ship wars. Do not get me started on the ship wars. I will drop anyone who's involved in actual ship warring like a hot pocket. I mean, there's room in the fandom ocean for each of us to have a whole armada of ships!
And the minor thing that annoys me is fandom in general's tendency to focus on one slash pairing and that's it. Like, where's the Avengers fic that isn't Tony/Steve? Where's the Supernatural fic that's not Sam/Dean or Dean/Cas? It's like The Collective Slash OTP takes over everything, and there's moderate amounts of het and gen and other slash ships, and then femslash is a rare and precious gem.
lol this was more like a rant butI need to vent too.