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Jan. 28th, 2012 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladydraceWhen I tell people that I'm obsessed with something new (or old), they tend to assume that I treat all my obsessions the same. But I don't. And I honestly can't tell you why. Weirdly, every fandom appeals to me differently.
Example:
NCIS. I watch every episode religiously and enjoy every re-run. I know all the characters, I love them and get involved in their stories. Heck, I even bought merchandise. But I feel no need to buy the DVDs, read/write fanfic or otherwise get involved in fandom. I don't care about news about the actors, gossip, plot debates... nothing. I enjoy it purely for its entertainment value.
In comparison:
Supernatural. I watch, read, write, chat, browse and basically eat up every scrap of news available, even to the point of making myself uncomfortable. I read as much fanfic about my ships as I can possibly manage and it's some sort of miracle that I've so far managed to steer clear of any ship wars.
In between these two extremes there are a multitude of gray areas. Some fandoms will only inspire me to read about a single paring, while never watching the series itself again. Others will be the kind I can rewatch endlessly but feel no need to read or write about.
This... was supposed to be a lot longer, but I seem to have run out of steam.
Example:
NCIS. I watch every episode religiously and enjoy every re-run. I know all the characters, I love them and get involved in their stories. Heck, I even bought merchandise. But I feel no need to buy the DVDs, read/write fanfic or otherwise get involved in fandom. I don't care about news about the actors, gossip, plot debates... nothing. I enjoy it purely for its entertainment value.
In comparison:
Supernatural. I watch, read, write, chat, browse and basically eat up every scrap of news available, even to the point of making myself uncomfortable. I read as much fanfic about my ships as I can possibly manage and it's some sort of miracle that I've so far managed to steer clear of any ship wars.
In between these two extremes there are a multitude of gray areas. Some fandoms will only inspire me to read about a single paring, while never watching the series itself again. Others will be the kind I can rewatch endlessly but feel no need to read or write about.
This... was supposed to be a lot longer, but I seem to have run out of steam.
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Date: 2012-01-29 12:10 am (UTC)It happens to me all the time.
Some shows, I'm happy with watch them endlessly, but I never went looking for fanfic, or meta, or anything. Like with The Avengers (the old British show, not the comics/movies), I'm happy with canon, and wish nothing else that that. Others, I stop watching the show because it made me cringe once time too many, but never steer out of fandom, like Smallville.
There are fandoms where I'd read one and just one pairing; others where I only would read gen; and others where I would read almost every scrap of story I can get.
Some fandoms, I'm only interested in meta, like Fringe.
Every of them is different, every one of them appeals to a different need, so... yeah. All obsessions, and yet, all different :P
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Date: 2012-01-29 07:11 am (UTC)