Thread:JohnVMaster/@comment-6345313-20120915073526/@comment-28075-20120915081558

Your comment was not the one that got to me, but then again I've been on a hair trigger for quite a while at this point. (I apologize for any hostility of offense as well.)

I wrote a big, long speech and trashed it, here's the long and short of it: there's two sides of this fandom. The creative side, which dabbles in fanfic and fanart, but generally is obsessed only over aging the characters up and making most of them gay, and the lolzy side, which cares primarily about humor over substance - if they do care about substance, at best, it's about the current issue itself rather than the characters. I never fit into either of these clumps of fans, and the few people I ran into who fit into my side of things usually lasted a few months and moved on.

The main reason I don't speak much positivity is my positivity is never met with positivity. I have been repeatedly, time and time again, alienated for defending Wendy's characterization. Everybody seems to hate Towelie with a passion. A ton of people really hated 200/201 or the Mysterion trilogy and Season Fourteen in general, especially older fans. I get questioned very, very much for finding "You're Getting Old" an amazing episode. I'm at odds with people a ton on this kind of stuff, and I think I'd rather argue why I dislike certain things than why I like them.

Regardless, between being seen as a nuisance at many generalized fansites, and being virtually ignored by the creative side for not conforming to their set of traditions (if you follow) and of course not to mention watching countless friends and allies fade away and leave the fandom, it's not exactly like I have much to hang on to right now outside the show itself, and that much only goes so far during a six-month hiatus.

I've worked recently to get myself out of the parts of the fandom that annoy me - but there's certain sites - and people - I just can't completely avoid, and the damage is already done. Hanging on to what little good is left in this fandom is more damage control for the bad than anything else.

I could go on but I think I've made my point at least.