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[(Anonymous)]

for once in my life i am absolutely thrilled to be into rare pairs and fandoms only. because jeez louise i am so sick of stupid megafandom wank.

[(Anonymous)]

spill the tea i too hate megafandom wankers

[(Anonymous)]

this is a megafandom?

[(Anonymous)]

i think they're talking about 911

and i suppose any fandom that's too big for yuletide is considered a megafandom now?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, looking at AO3 this random-ass procedural I'd barely heard of before now somehow has 46,580 fics, so while you can argue about where the boundary for a megafandom falls and I'd be willing to set it higher than that, it definitely ain't small? (By comparison, say, Sherlock is at 136k and Game of Thrones is at 65k.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I have no idea about megafandom definitions, but that definitely gives me megafandom vibes.

[(Anonymous)]

whether it counts as a megafandom or not, idc. the whole bs going on reminds me of what happened over ofmd.

why are some fandoms like this. why.

[(Anonymous)]

It isn't the whole reason the fandom is like this, but it's always messy when progressive representation is also involved (or claimed to be involved).

It's so joyful when it's going well, and so awful when it's not. It's harder not to take it personally.

Which is, to be very clear, NOT an argument against shows with, say, out and proud bisexual characters! Just for people, in fandoms where they take especial joy out of representation to brace themselves for sourer feelings than otherwise, when something happens that they don't like.

[(Anonymous)]

What was the ship war wank for ofmd? I couldn't really get into the show and found the fans rather obnoxious so I'm not really tapped in but I got the impression the main OTP was shipped pretty unanimously?

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of the wank came down to was Izzy Hands the root of all evil or was he Ed's long-suffering ex/current situationship other, thus implying that Ed is not a perfect cinnamon roll too good for this world. Like, do you ship the main OTP as perfect happy endings or real messy.