DW/LJ friending meme!

[lizbee]

A friending meme to combat the decline in content on non-Tumblr platforms! (Not that Tumblr isn't great in its own way, I just don't find it a useful place for discussion.) I've friended a handful of people, and will go back to look at more.

I'm mildly intrigued at the number of people who include "pointless negativity and squee-harshing" in their flist turn-offs.

Expect some spam today -- remember when people would routinely make three journal posts in a day, and that would be normal and not spammy? -- as I'm still catching up on a few things, like my monthly book posts. Although I also see a doctor's visit looming today, because I've somehow developed a twitch in my left pinkie finger. Which is probably just stress related, only how stressed can I be when I've just gotten back from a holiday? I figure I should get that looked at ASAP in case it's carpal tunnel or something equally likely to interfere with work.

Comments

[recessional]

Re: negativity/squee-harshing - I am . . . not surprised. I mean, knowing that regardless of what happened in the ep, SOMEONE would be going on about how Amy Pond is as a character and a person a representation of all that has gone wrong with women and whoever wrote that ep should be shot is pretty much what soured me on having anything to do with Dr Who fandom.

Which is . . .you know, people are totally entitled to their dislike? Gods know anyone who loved Stirling's Emberverse would hate reading my journal, but I also wouldn't friend someone in that fandom without knowing that they, like me, were hate-loving it. Because someone who loves it does not deserve to have the great moments of heroism of, say, Meeting at Corvallis totally squee-harshed by the fact that I cannot take the male lead seriously without wanting to kill him, so I mock the shit out of him and his Best Hero Ever take.

If you're trying to build a community based on a mutual love for a thing that makes you happy, the person who's there out of some weird compulsion but mostly spends their time bitching about its flaws is kiiiiinda a killjoy. When that killjoyness is backed up by the whump of "and if you think differently, you are misogynist/racist/homophobic/whatever and you are bad and should feel bad", the joy-killing goes a little further.

(There are any number of things where I go "if you love X, I am not the person you want to discuss X with. I do not think you are a bad person for loving X, but I hate X for various reasons.")

[lizbee]

That's how I felt about Avatar fandom by the end of season 1 of LoK. I'm like, yeah, the season was rough, but when there's hate-meta by people who haven't even watched it, that's when I stop engaging.

(On the other hand, I totally hated a lot of RTD's run on Doctor Who, and got tied up in stupid shipping wars and stuff, so I feel like a tiny bit of a hypocrite complaining? ON THE OTHER HAND, I never went into squee places to be grumpy at people.)

[eve11]

Oh no, they beat me to it!

How best does one consolidate friending memes? I am planning on putting up a Doctor Who-specific friending meme this weekend as well, on lj. It's not quite gone live yet b/c I was still getting permissions to pimp it from various lj comms. Well hey, the more the merrier! I will post over there and try to cross-pollinate.

[lizbee]

I'm not really sure, actually! I've never done a friending meme before.

[eve11]

I know, me neither! but like keuridieos I was like, "what the hell, I'll give it a shot."