Just something I've noticed over the years...

[amadeupname]

You know, I have never made a very good fan.

I never really expend a lot of energy into joining groups or finding out new things about my particular fandom (even though I have to admit it would probably be interesting and rather fun), not since I was a major Backstreet Boys fan in fifth or sixth grade and spent hours online reading about them, saving hundreds of pics, attempting to chat with people about them (the first foray I made into a chatroom, I was ignored, which kind of sucked -- I may have been a newb who thought "Hey, BSB chatroom means we talk about BSB, right?", but that's no reason to blow me off...). I'm just the most passive, "Oh, yeah, that was cool. Wanna go write half-assed fanfic now?" admirer of whatever I'm into I've ever run into. I don't spend hours looking up stuff on my fandoms (though that might be a good thing now), and to be frank, half the time I don't really care.

I dunno. Does anyone else think I should try and be a better fan?

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Comments

[nazlord.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the point of becoming completely obsessed with a fandom just for the sake of being obsessed. I mean, you enjoy something, and you can enjoy it however you like. If you are content with a casual interest in something and have fun with it the way it is, so be it. You don't need more than that.

I mean, if you're really interested in something, go ahead and look stuff up if that's what makes you happy. But if you don't really care, don't worry about it.

[naru-chan.livejournal.com]

Obsession doesn't really make someone a good fan. I'm not sure there IS such a thing as a "good fan" O.o Learning a little about what you're interested in can be cool (and can introduce you to other things you might like), but devoting hours and hours and weeks and months of your life to a fandom...borders on creepy, I think. ^^;;;