Bitter Blogbacks
About blogging back, the latest fad: I blogged back to Liz’s bitter maggot blog entry (today), but you have to hit that little [comment] button to see what I said. I really, really hate hitting little buttons. [Insert tirade on click-taxes here, if you’ve heard it.] Anyway, here’s what I said; there’s a general question in there.
I feel so out of it. Where is ENT fandom, and how do I join? I really need another spirit-crushing bad fandom experience, you know. It’s been months already…
I completely agree with the maggot blog entry, even though I have no clue about the specifics Liz was talking about. I guess no one ever told her that the VOY definition of constructive criticism is “what I want to hear, the way I want to hear it”. Some things you learn the hard way.
I thought the same thing when J/C fandom went from tired and old to vicious and angry - it’s time to write that novel. Fame is the best revenge, right? Don’t you want so-and-so to hang her head in shame and say, “I drove her out of fandom, back before she was famous and beloved by all”? The problem is, so-and-so would somehow manage to take the credit for your Hugos. So-and-so’s are that way.
I remember when all this was fun, and here I am, old and bitter, living on the J/P and C/7 fringes of VOY, petrified of getting involved in ENT or Delta Fleet, missing Christine and all the other disappeared VOY people…
There comes a time when you have to consider that maybe fandom is just this way. Maybe Trek fans have always been stark raving mad. Maybe it goes back to sci-fi fandom, that huge clique that considers all outsiders “mundanes” and scolds newcomers for calling it sci-fi instead of sf. Maybe it’s time to go read some Ayn Rand and develop a healthy detestation for the other 98% of humanity.
Maybe it’s time to get back to that novel.