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

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's an awesome fanart. You were the one who gave me the link to that other awesome one, with Sakura and the huge, complex ax, right?

*nods*

Same here. And I'm so excited for Dollhouse - I really can't wait.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ax? no, but I'd love to see it.

books

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

re: book fandoms in a later paragraph

Except for Harry Potter (and some minor Discworld fanart), I don't do fandoms for books. Even if I could, the fandoms are never there for the books I want. So it just almost never happens for me.

Books are like a safe zone. The most is that I maybe read a couple of internet or professional reviews of the novels. I often write my own review of books, but that just as often goes completely uncommented on.

Re: books

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes. That is why I'm talking about going back to them, because at most, book reviews will get, like, two people commenting.

And then I'll whine (well, I do now) about not having a fandom for something that should have a fandom, but it will be a different aggravation.

(And it's a doomed choice anyway, as you'll see if you read my soon to be most recent post.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Here it is:

http://rozefire.deviantart.com/art/Shannaro-35092028

I adore her posture, and the expression on her face.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

BADASS!

Her expression (and overall facial design) really stand out as original but at the same time fitting to the series...but it's the little heart next to her name on the Giant Ax that makes it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes.