[mmmm, shrubs!]
Sep. 15th, 2006 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaYou know what fandom has taught me?
That I don't care as much about what people say as how they say it (meaning, god, I've become anal about bad logic & argument tactics). I mean, I was reading a Jehovah's Witnesses pamphlet yesterday in the Laundry Outing of Doom (with the comforter that REFUSED to wash... or dry) and the thing that bothered me about it (and btw, I used to start twitching at the very idea of Intelligent Design vs Evolution most days) isn't their point but how they totally didn't know a good argument if it bit them on the arse.
The funny thing is actually that I suck at rational/logical argument (or anything else re: logic)-- it's just that I don't really want to convince anyone of anything-- like, ever, no matter what it looks like. Like, hi, just because [technology can be modeled on nature] (A-->B) and [technology requires 'intelligent design'] (A-->B=C) does not mean [nature is like technology] (A=C). Bzzt, fail. :/
In other words, fandom has made me more anal :))
On the one hand (as per poll), I don't really care about grammar if Teh Pr0n is hot enuf. But, I mean, I was talking to my mom yesterday (and my mom is a suuuuper hardcore grammar-nazi) and she was like appalled people would hurt their braincells that way (ie, reading ungrammatical things). Then again, she is both a librarian and a professor :> But then, she is totally not the sort of person who'd be in fandom, 'cause like, she takes things she puts any effort/time into Very Seriously, and at least in HP fandom, you'd go insane if you seriously tried to have those sorts of standards. Sometimes I think that the very idea of Fandom + Standards = LOL. ^^;;
Like, for instance, I was reading the answers to the shipper's character-preference poll where people were more okay with the character they liked best in other pairings & I've had this conversation with a person who cared more about Draco's characterization in H/D 'cause she likes Draco more. Both these attitudes seem typically fannish insofar as fans tend to look for certain things [and therefore see them + ignore/discard other annoying/sucktastic consequences]. Like, I think the very approach of a 'normal' person who wants decently-spelled porn (or more likely, doesn't read porn about fictional characters at all!) is different 'cause why would they even click on a link for some random person's NC17 fic? Why would they bother finishing it? Why are they beating their head against a brick wall?
Like me, I beat my head against a brick wall 'cause I'm [overly] obsessed. Most people are actually less obsessed/fixated and would have left for greener pastures when they realized they cannot feed on these here shrubs anymore. I'm like, "BUT Ineed to find CAN BUILD MYSELF A BETTER SHRUB!" (aka 'crazy'). I mean, supposedly spelling matters & factual truth [sometimes... sort of] matters Out There, right, in the normal world [mostly because the anal people have POWER... or something], but here it only matters insofar as there are enough crazy-fixated spelling fans (like, supply & demand). I tried to tell my mom that ungrammatical porn exists because there is demand [sort of like bad TV exists because people don't really care for quality as much as they do for entertainment], but I think that just makes her call people stupid/infidels :>
...this entry had no point. Woe. :/
EDIT: The reason I talk about grammar & not characterization, btw, is that I can talk about grammar normally, even if I care about it. If you get me started on characterization mistakes, I will start twitching & frothing & ranting, so I thought it best to avoid that subject :> My mom says 'grammar = step 1 & comes first', but to the fan, what you care about most always comes first :>
That I don't care as much about what people say as how they say it (meaning, god, I've become anal about bad logic & argument tactics). I mean, I was reading a Jehovah's Witnesses pamphlet yesterday in the Laundry Outing of Doom (with the comforter that REFUSED to wash... or dry) and the thing that bothered me about it (and btw, I used to start twitching at the very idea of Intelligent Design vs Evolution most days) isn't their point but how they totally didn't know a good argument if it bit them on the arse.
The funny thing is actually that I suck at rational/logical argument (or anything else re: logic)-- it's just that I don't really want to convince anyone of anything-- like, ever, no matter what it looks like. Like, hi, just because [technology can be modeled on nature] (A-->B) and [technology requires 'intelligent design'] (A-->B=C) does not mean [nature is like technology] (A=C). Bzzt, fail. :/
In other words, fandom has made me more anal :))
On the one hand (as per poll), I don't really care about grammar if Teh Pr0n is hot enuf. But, I mean, I was talking to my mom yesterday (and my mom is a suuuuper hardcore grammar-nazi) and she was like appalled people would hurt their braincells that way (ie, reading ungrammatical things). Then again, she is both a librarian and a professor :> But then, she is totally not the sort of person who'd be in fandom, 'cause like, she takes things she puts any effort/time into Very Seriously, and at least in HP fandom, you'd go insane if you seriously tried to have those sorts of standards. Sometimes I think that the very idea of Fandom + Standards = LOL. ^^;;
Like, for instance, I was reading the answers to the shipper's character-preference poll where people were more okay with the character they liked best in other pairings & I've had this conversation with a person who cared more about Draco's characterization in H/D 'cause she likes Draco more. Both these attitudes seem typically fannish insofar as fans tend to look for certain things [and therefore see them + ignore/discard other annoying/sucktastic consequences]. Like, I think the very approach of a 'normal' person who wants decently-spelled porn (or more likely, doesn't read porn about fictional characters at all!) is different 'cause why would they even click on a link for some random person's NC17 fic? Why would they bother finishing it? Why are they beating their head against a brick wall?
Like me, I beat my head against a brick wall 'cause I'm [overly] obsessed. Most people are actually less obsessed/fixated and would have left for greener pastures when they realized they cannot feed on these here shrubs anymore. I'm like, "BUT I
...this entry had no point. Woe. :/
EDIT: The reason I talk about grammar & not characterization, btw, is that I can talk about grammar normally, even if I care about it. If you get me started on characterization mistakes, I will start twitching & frothing & ranting, so I thought it best to avoid that subject :> My mom says 'grammar = step 1 & comes first', but to the fan, what you care about most always comes first :>
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Date: 2006-09-15 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-15 04:11 pm (UTC)...So now I'm both gay-sex-obsessed AND cranky :D
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Date: 2006-09-15 08:08 pm (UTC)... why won't this new lj format let me copy and paste?
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Date: 2006-09-15 08:18 pm (UTC)Back when I abused adjectives... I wish people didn't tell me my 'talent shined through', 'cause maybe I'd have beat them into submission earlier... as is, I sort of cringe when I remember flowery!Reena :> :>