What really bugs you in a fandom?
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:19 am
I've been in and out of many a fandom in my time (i.e. six years), and I've experienced many a wacky event with my fellow fans. Although sometimes I'd use a different word than "wacky".
Before I go, I'd like to set some ground rules. If something insane happened/happens to you, please try to avoid naming names in recent incidents, and keep things PG-13 at the most. (Subnote: If it's something that's happened on this forum and it's really bad, contact me and I can help sort it out.) I know we all could potentially have some wild stories and help with trying to deal with other fans.
Such as this one chap who's left one question of mine unanswered since 2005...
"Why did you turn Darkwing into a winged demon velociraptor?!"
I used to have all this DWD fan art on this page (I was Jen C.) when I was twelve, and it gave me a little ego boost that I needed before starting an original comic the next year. Three profiles above me was one guy with a bank of pictures dedicated to making Darkwing into a lizard creature. Why did he want Darkwing to be a lizard creature?!
It's not just the Darkwing Duck fandom that gets this, too. I once got an anonymous request to write a fan fiction where Astro and Uran are turned into velociraptors by a talisman, promptly before feasting on Dr. Ochanomizu. > I never wrote it.
I might post something else after anyone else gets a chance to vent.
Before I go, I'd like to set some ground rules. If something insane happened/happens to you, please try to avoid naming names in recent incidents, and keep things PG-13 at the most. (Subnote: If it's something that's happened on this forum and it's really bad, contact me and I can help sort it out.) I know we all could potentially have some wild stories and help with trying to deal with other fans.
Such as this one chap who's left one question of mine unanswered since 2005...
"Why did you turn Darkwing into a winged demon velociraptor?!"
I used to have all this DWD fan art on this page (I was Jen C.) when I was twelve, and it gave me a little ego boost that I needed before starting an original comic the next year. Three profiles above me was one guy with a bank of pictures dedicated to making Darkwing into a lizard creature. Why did he want Darkwing to be a lizard creature?!
It's not just the Darkwing Duck fandom that gets this, too. I once got an anonymous request to write a fan fiction where Astro and Uran are turned into velociraptors by a talisman, promptly before feasting on Dr. Ochanomizu. > I never wrote it.
I might post something else after anyone else gets a chance to vent.