I'm So Tired Of Being Tired

[redbrunja]

I swear, right now, I want to quit fandom.

No, there is nothing hugely dramatic prompting this. I am just so, so weary of the ingrained sexism and the fandom drama and the female character hate and the shipping wars.

I feel like declaring that after July, I'm going to go back to western tv and liveaction fandoms, because when two very different mangakas annoy me in exactly the same way in one fucking evening, and my own over-investment in a pairing + spoilers + the damn fandom itself is threatening to ruin the show that ruined me for anime....

Something is very wrong here.

(And then I remember that my previous happy skippy live action comedy show is killing my love, as is my current sci-fi drama, my last sci-fi drama betrayed me horribly, and my last girl-centric show was torturous near the end, and I realize I'm going to need to go back to reading books and give myself time to let the wounds heal.)

Comments

[fani.livejournal.com]

Don't you still have The Truth, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Thud!, Making Money, Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith to read? Nation is also coming out in the Fall (you lucky Americans, you'll get it first!)

I find Discworld has a high re-read quality and you'll find stuff that you miss first time reading so you can always re-read.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The Truth is done. . Only 5 books left!

[fani.livejournal.com]

What did you think of the Truth ?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I liked it. It's about middle on my personal scale-- all around entertaining, with some good bits and weak bits. I don't think the central conspiracy conflict was as strong as some of the other conspiracy plotlines, and the villains were weaker when compared to more memorable villains, but it was a joy to watch the development of DeWorde and the other reporters as the paper got bigger. Also, lots and lots of in-jokes that I got in that one. TP went crazy with the media references, which were fun to read.

My favorite was the entire discussion referencing to the Seattle Underground, which I'm pretty 98% of the people who read the book won't get. I would never have gotten it if it weren't for a confluence of specific life circumstances and tourism.