My pain, my rage?
I'm a bit of a fandom junkie, but mostly I'm a message board whore. I make no effort to hide this. I've said it before, in fact, and if you asked, I'd freely cop to it. To me, message boards are the perfect blend of crazy good and crazy bad, and I like to see how long I can tough it out before the bad crazy sends me running for the hills permanently. For instance, I loved the insanity that old school Charmed fandom bred without even trying. Board. Wars. I mean, really. It doesn't get better than that. I thrive on behind the scenes fan-gossip more than I do actual celeb gossip nine times out of ten and I guess it's because I might interact with head level One crazy fan, but the odds are good I will never run into, say, Holly Marie Combs.
But, because I've long since realized that the bad crazy will almost always win and almost always chase me away from whatever board I currently call home, I tend to lurk more than anything. Which means I miss the fun of jumping right into the fray, but I also don't get smacked around quite as much as I used to. That said, the AG fandom is crazier than I really thought was physically possible for a fandom to be. First rule of fandom, I guess. Toy fandom is crazier than all other fandom. Even the Blake/Leighton fandom, and that's cuckoo.
Current proof of this? Is it offensive to refer to your slightly... unusual habits concerning how you play/deal with your dolls as OCD if you don't actually have it? I dunno. I think it depends on how you word your insanity, personally. I find some people who say that they're soooooo OCD annoying as hell. But I'd probably find them annoying as hell no matter what they said, so really, I'm a bit biased on that, huh? I get that the general idea was that over time, and especially when dealing with Crazy Toy People*, you come up with habits/rituals/quirks. And instead of trying to cover the various words other people might use [quirks, people. When in doubt, go with quirks!] they went with weird/OCD/whatever. And naturally, there was a tiny freakout over how obnoxious it is for people to use OCD in such context.
Seriously? This is the issue you choose to rally behind on a board where people cannot differentiate between your and you're? I get it. You've got it and you don't like people misrepresenting your disease or perpetuating the stereotype. Gotcha.
But all I hear is wah-wah-my-pain! You don't understand my pain! Wah-wah-wah. Like the Peanuts adults.
To be fair, I do this for all things that can basically be boiled down to "my pain! my pain! You don't understand my pain and are thus unqualified to discuss my pain!" and it's really uncomfortable when it's coming from the mouth [hands?] of someone I like. So... that's why the good mischievous gods gave us LJ. To bitch without getting smacked good and proper.
* Hi. Totally am one, so I get to say these things. I've got a badge and everything.
But, because I've long since realized that the bad crazy will almost always win and almost always chase me away from whatever board I currently call home, I tend to lurk more than anything. Which means I miss the fun of jumping right into the fray, but I also don't get smacked around quite as much as I used to. That said, the AG fandom is crazier than I really thought was physically possible for a fandom to be. First rule of fandom, I guess. Toy fandom is crazier than all other fandom. Even the Blake/Leighton fandom, and that's cuckoo.
Current proof of this? Is it offensive to refer to your slightly... unusual habits concerning how you play/deal with your dolls as OCD if you don't actually have it? I dunno. I think it depends on how you word your insanity, personally. I find some people who say that they're soooooo OCD annoying as hell. But I'd probably find them annoying as hell no matter what they said, so really, I'm a bit biased on that, huh? I get that the general idea was that over time, and especially when dealing with Crazy Toy People*, you come up with habits/rituals/quirks. And instead of trying to cover the various words other people might use [quirks, people. When in doubt, go with quirks!] they went with weird/OCD/whatever. And naturally, there was a tiny freakout over how obnoxious it is for people to use OCD in such context.
Seriously? This is the issue you choose to rally behind on a board where people cannot differentiate between your and you're? I get it. You've got it and you don't like people misrepresenting your disease or perpetuating the stereotype. Gotcha.
But all I hear is wah-wah-my-pain! You don't understand my pain! Wah-wah-wah. Like the Peanuts adults.
To be fair, I do this for all things that can basically be boiled down to "my pain! my pain! You don't understand my pain and are thus unqualified to discuss my pain!" and it's really uncomfortable when it's coming from the mouth [hands?] of someone I like. So... that's why the good mischievous gods gave us LJ. To bitch without getting smacked good and proper.
* Hi. Totally am one, so I get to say these things. I've got a badge and everything.