Eight Signs of a Fannish Relationship

[aletheiafelinea]

How to know you are in one?






1. Your fans want to know everything about you – your past, your mind, your every thought and action in any given moment. In spite of that knowledge, they make their own image of you, and complain when you go contrary to it. They plan your future, and do everything to control your behaviour.

2. Your fans lose interest in anything except you.

3. When they're unsatisfied, it's always your fault and that's you who is the problem. Yet there's no way to avoid it, cause your fans are always skeptic and have bad feelings about sequels, and later you hear “Told you so”.

4. Your fans keep listing your failures and telling at the same time they love you.

5. You find you change your canon to suit their expectations, even against yourself.

6. You feel exhausted and drained of ideas.

7. Your fans abuse you and make you suffer, saying that you are even more adorable then.

8. Your fans are possessive about you, jealous for your relations with other fans, and scornful for their different ideas about you.


If even one point sounds familiar, beware! You may be an object of fannish love!
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Yep, undoubtedly I'm a fan. *g* Well, maybe except the last point. Now I wonder if I'm going to get keelhauled for the all eight...

Comments

[jennifer weston (from livejournal.com)]

This rings painfully true!

I guess there's advantages to living in total obscurity.

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

At least for a character. Maybe I should at least draw him a bottle of rum for my cruelty?

[jennifer weston (from livejournal.com)]

I'm sure he'd like that.

[phoenix-9664.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, let this not be true of JDfans!

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought just about Jack (and characters/canons in general), but for JD and other actors such phenomenon is really nasty and not funny at all.

[pearlseed.livejournal.com]

It's been a subject of much discussion for me that I believe Mr. Depp is a lovely human and a good actor, however, I LOVE Jack Sparrow, no doubt about it.

I was reared Methodist and I'm afraid, right or wrong, what my religious training taught me was I get to choose what I want to believe...sorta like a buffet I suppose, but I only get control of meownself. I'm smitten, but only in control of this little peabrain and short round meat.

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

It's been a subject of much discussion for me that I believe Mr. Depp is a lovely human and a good actor, however, I LOVE Jack Sparrow, no doubt about it.
So we're in accordance.

I get to choose what I want to believe...sorta like a buffet I suppose
A good approach, IMO. Far more honest than the oh-so-popular "I'm innocent, I only do what my religion orders me". I always grind my teeth hearing this 'argument'. Man, I want reply then, whatever your religion orders or forbids you, you have chosen this religion in the first place.
(Huh, posting what I considered an interesting observation in the form of satire, I'd never thought it'll lead to such grave discussions. :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Aw, Jack, you can get out of it. You don't have to suffer abuse. There's a support line just for you; call toll free 1-800-KEELHAUL. Trained operators are bobbing by ...

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

*Jack tilts his hat at a rakish angle* Trained, eh? Captain Jack Sparrow can teach 'em a tad about keelhaulin'. *whistle*Do they happen to have free rum too?*whistle*