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[beanside]

I have no idea what I did to my neck yesterday, but oh crap it hurt. Today is much improved.

After the latest fandom kernuffle made me headdesk this weekend, it got me thinking about fandom as a whole, and why I bother with it.

I came to the conclusion that I love fandom because for every crappy experience, or every trip to fandom wank, for me, it still gives more than it takes.

Case in point: Metallica fandom. Took/caused: Stress because of listmums arbitrary rules. Nearly cost friendships due to stupidity. Pissed me off to no end by hurting people I love. If fandom wank had been around back then, would have landed me on it repeatedly due to flame wars from hell. (though, to be fair, if I have a good opponent, I kind of like arguing. It makes me happy when I'm in a bad mood.)

Gave: A deeper friendship with my Roo. Friends who I still adore in hederahelix, kimannebb and ctbn60. Some hella awesome fic from the above people. And a brand new friend, in my flame war opponent, robanybody.

*grin*

So yes. Fandom still rocks. And my little corner of it is the bestest ever.

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[robanybody.livejournal.com]

Every time fandom pisses me off with the usual stupidity, I realize that if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have you or Jess or so many others as friends. I'd have missed out on so many wonderful people and great experiences, and the fandom stress is not even close to being bad enough to eclipse the good parts of fandom.

I will never stopped being amused that we used to flame each other before we became friends. <3333333333333