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I've gone to some effort to cut "why is YOUR FAVE popular when MINE isn't, what is wrong with people, and you could be writing/drawing/analyzing mine but you're NOT" out of my life.
Yet all the blocking in the world can't get rid of it!
I mean, sure, smallest violin for being a fan of fandom bicycle OTCs and at least moderately popular ships, but it's so profoundly annoying. That absurd Beatles argument, fandom edition.
In fact, the fandom edition is slightly worse, because it almost invariably comes with "if you'll put in effort for your fave, why not mine?" Or even worse, "if you like your fave, why don't you like mine?" Because...they're polar opposites in every conceivable way...? Why on earth would it follow that my fondness for tormented villains with some level of principle/feeling + harsh and/or dangerously temperamental heroes would translate into a fondness for wisecracking heart-of-gold companions?
I mean, I usually like them well enough, and want them to succeed and be happy insofar as I care at all, but that's—not much. I don't dislike Ron or Sokka or whomever, but I'm not really interested either.
And while individual maps of favoured tropes vary, I think it's safe to say that "you care about X, why don't you also care about someone completely different?" is never going to be anything but irritating.
Yet all the blocking in the world can't get rid of it!
I mean, sure, smallest violin for being a fan of fandom bicycle OTCs and at least moderately popular ships, but it's so profoundly annoying. That absurd Beatles argument, fandom edition.
In fact, the fandom edition is slightly worse, because it almost invariably comes with "if you'll put in effort for your fave, why not mine?" Or even worse, "if you like your fave, why don't you like mine?" Because...they're polar opposites in every conceivable way...? Why on earth would it follow that my fondness for tormented villains with some level of principle/feeling + harsh and/or dangerously temperamental heroes would translate into a fondness for wisecracking heart-of-gold companions?
I mean, I usually like them well enough, and want them to succeed and be happy insofar as I care at all, but that's—not much. I don't dislike Ron or Sokka or whomever, but I'm not really interested either.
And while individual maps of favoured tropes vary, I think it's safe to say that "you care about X, why don't you also care about someone completely different?" is never going to be anything but irritating.
