Spoilers... the eternal question

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[Poll #799321]
Edit: I should probably clarify that the fact that it might have an affect on my ship really doesn't matter to me, as my ship would take a good 5 seasons to realistically be canon, and this show is only ever going to have 3. And all that really really doesn't factor into my actual fandom activities with regards to ship. I could read good news or bad news and it's all moot.

I'm thinking I should just read it because I've been spoiled for a few basic things already. But... I'm concerned about detailed plot events. I don't want the whole episode to be ruined for me. But at the same time, I doubt it's THAT detailed, being that it's only an article.

::sigh:: It's hard to be spoiler-free when you want to read fanfic. Stupid negligent fanficcers with their stupid unlabelled spoilery fic summaries. And the REALLY bastardly ones who put spoilers in their fics and then don't tell you, but after five or ten fics you start to clue in to the reality of the spoilage you've been given against your will.

At this point, I fear most of the dammage is done.

On the other hand... I hate being spoiled! I want surprises!

But I also want to get the problem over with so that I don't have to get annoyed about it anymore.

I've already totally given up almost all Fruits Basket fanfic on ff.net for TWO YEARS because I didn't want to be spoiled for that series. I haven't even BROWSED the Furuba section of ff.net in all that time. How loyal do I need to be to EVERY show I watch, when it comes to avoiding spoilers?

... but I *like* surprises, you know?

Okay, lets look at the facts about me spoiling myself for A:TLA.

Reasons Against
-I'm a long time anti-spoiler campaigner
-I like to go into something with as little foreknowledge of major plot/character events as possible
-Being spoiled for the "big surprise" sucks all my enjoyment out of it.

Reasons For
-I'm already half-spoiled, including a major suprise casting spoiler that I would rather not have known
-It really won't affect my fanfic much, especially considering that I'm writing all AUs at this point
-It's clearly impossible to be spoiler-free in this fandom because they're all a bunch of babies who can't help gushing out the newest spoilers in their friggin' fic summaries and all over the major LJ comm
-They *never* cut for mood spoilers, and often that's enough to infer something and get spoiled for big stuff
-I'm grumpy and impatient

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad I wasn't spoiled for either of the two DW finales. And I wasn't spoiled for Veronica Mars (though the speculation was almost as bad as being spoiled for that show), or for Life On Mars, or for most tv shows I'm watching. My flist is pretty good about the tv spoilers, you know? But anime fandoms seem to be the achilles heel in my anti-spoiler lifestyle. I just keep finding out stuff I don't want to know, and it makes me want to just spoil myself to get it over with. ... there's some kind of metaphor about either shooting yourself in the foot or self-anesthesizing in there, but I can't quite find the right note for it.