Ok New Game. What's The Thing You're A Fan Of That You're The Most Pretentious About. NOT The Most Pretentious

Ok new game. What's the thing you're a fan of that you're the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you're a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those "oh yeah? Name five of their albums" people. There is a difference

Because I'm curious and I really don't have much sense any more of who is here on Tumblr after the various waves of immigration from other sites and people leaving for other places, or who's reading this blog.

I'll let it run for a week, to increase the sample size. One simple question with ranges...

I decided to re-upload it directly to tumblr, because I really like how it turned out, but it seems to work worse with links (or the video is really crap and I'm wrong). Do you love Yennskier as much as I love them? (watermark is my main nickname🥲)

I really understand you, because I also often come across this. And this also often pushes away from some fandoms. I don't even want to post my arguments in some more public social networks (I don't have anyone I know from real life in tmblr, so I feel a little safe), but I don't write them especially here. I don't want to face waves of aggression. the only thing that saves me is that my husband supports me in my thoughts. the funniest thing is when I start to get carried away at some points (the plot of the second season, I grumbled for a while), in some things he explained to me why they did one way or another. but yes, the toxicity and bile of many people sometimes really hurts. I rub "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words… actually, also hurt"

I wish I was willing to watch things that are enjoyed by everyone right now. I know I would probably enjoy several of these shows. But I simply don't want to watch or to be part of the thing.

My current experience of fandoms isn't very nice (not much in this bubble but more around it - like in general). I just feel strange to like certain things the way I do. I feel they linger longer in me than for most and I can't move on easily.

Yesterday I quitted a stream because the streamer had his mind done already over the game he was playing, and he was trashing every details before even trying to play it. And it reminded me all those witcher video on youtube. Millions of views for trahsing. Ghosting for mixed or positive points of view.

Was it a good game? I don't know, probably not, I don't care anymore. I really didn't want to enter that vibe. So I stepped out.

The fact that he did it, visibly knowing he was gonna hate it, and then finding obviously every stone to throw at it and himself to finally say this is trash and the game was an insult, every way possible, just triggered me bad. Justification. I have to test it, this is my fandom and my work.

Well I guess he feels trapped in something that he doesn't like anymore. That's valid, but why do I have to receive all that passive aggressivity?

The thing is I don't find many places where people enjoy the same things I do. I step out more and more often. Not because they don't like something I enjoy - I am capable to take an opinion -, but the way they don't like, if I make sense.

All details that are like unworthy and so rarely details that are good. Glorifying the bad before pushing the thing out to the bin. To the point where I begin to wonder. Do I really have bad tastes ? Do I have too simple needs to fill? Should I want more ?

So when I see other stuff that I could possibly enjoy, I am like. Hmmm well, how long before people would begin to trash it too ? Do I really want to get invested in something that will follow the same path as everything else that I enjoy ?

The same reason blocks me in writing/finishing my analysis. There are 3 of them rotting in my draft with edits I have made, things that I wanted to talk about, etc. So I put the smallest content. I try to avoid being too enthusiastic.

I am bit jealous that people can invest themselves in several fandoms. Jumping from turmoil to another. For me the transitioning phases look like more like me partying hard in silence. Then just giving up. Then I move on. And eventually pick up something new.

Why do I keep interest in things for so long each time ?! I am talking years there.

I still can't figure out if I am the problem, others are to me or if I just can't adapt to the fast pacing of fandoms.

What I liked about the book was that Sheenaz was very cocky and wayward. But yes, for some reason it also seems to me that this is a song by Essi Daven. Especially if you take into account her sad story

"A Little Sacrifice" is now a permanent part of my music playlist, and every time I hear it, I'm reminded of how great it actually is.

I didn't understand it until I finally got around to reading (listening) to the actual books, at which point the song blew my mind.

It's so Jaskier of him to change the real story to a more romantic, moving one.

Like... in the book, the siren was a mermaid, and the mermaid ended up leaving the sea for her love; a duke. But that's not nearly as emotionally moving as a prince unwittingly sacrificing himself to a siren after he (presumably) fell victim to her song.

I just have so much respect for the layers of thought that went into writing A Little Sacrifice for the series, and I think about it every time I hear the song.