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.

[phoenix-9664.livejournal.com]

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

[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 ...