i respectfully object to your analogy, sir

[timepiececlock]

Dear fandom at large and fandom wank and ATLA fandom in particular,

Stop comparing Zutarians to Harmonians. Please stop, for me. I never liked that pairing. And if we're going to be compared to rabid delusional fans, I'd much rather be compared to Spuffy fans. Or Doctor/Rose fans. Because I like those ships better, and I've been called nasty things as a member of those as well.

It's kind of a shallow request, I know, but humor me here. Hell, "SPUFFY" is shorter to type and easier to spell than "HARMONIAN" anyway.

-Rashaka





P.S. And really, we Zutarians haven't earned it. Compared to the three fandoms above, we are tiny, and so is our wank. Which I'm okay with. Although we are apparently big enough to get a voice actor to make a little tribute video to us, which is still pretty freaking funny. See previous post.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on what people say when they make the comparison. In terms of foreshadowing and pairings not panning out, yes, it works in a generic way. But its also saying that all zutarians felt betrayed, and I don't think that's true at all. I would say only a small fraction felt "betrayed" by the creators whereas for most it ended the way we expected since the season began.

The reason I mentioned Spuffy isn't just because it's been a big fandom with proudly "obnoxious" fangirls, it's because for several seasons it *wasn't* canon and most things were based on reading into the foreshadowing and extensive ship theories. As well as being an enemies pairing rather than a prior-friends pairing.

In terms of behavior and wank and fandom size I don't think the analogy works well at all, though, because HP just dwarfs most other fandoms in sheer size and mass and output, especially in pairings wank. So any hard-core ship fandom whose pairing didn't work out gets compared to them.

The tiny thing was my Bad Wolf reference, but you just trumped it.

[irrel.livejournal.com]

You are right that as a pairing we have more in common with Spuffy than we'll ever have with H/Hr (Thank God *cough*) but I understand how awful it feels to have the creator(s) of the story you love tell you your ship is never going to happen and you're crazy for thinking it could (even in fanfic).

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Maybe I just don't identify much with that feeling. I was more puzzled than hurt by that reaction from creators, and even then I was surprised not at the fact that they had no intentions of it, but the fact that they were surprised we did. Still, it was more mild confusion for me than feeling hurt or indignation. And I think indignation is what a lot of people associate with HP ships like H/Hr. But, again, this is my own feelings on the matter, not necessarily others'.