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[pez]

MWAHAHAHAHAHA

Damn, I deleted my Casshern evil!Tuti laughing icon XD

Oh, what do I hate?

I hate people who think other people are cliquey simply because those people are friends with each other and they post fics to their own journals instead of to the communities. (which means loads of people friend them, to keep up with the ficcage) Yes, they are friends with each other and like to post in their own journals. Get over it already 8D

Comments

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

I think the reason some groups get described as cliquey is the... exclusivity. Some groups of friends just feel unapproachable; like they're all having a big in-joke, that no-one will explain to you, because "you had to be there" - y'know? I think I just have a grudge against cliques, lol, cos none of them will have me. XD I don't know, maybe my own group seems like a clique from the outside - it's hard to tell, when you're in the middle - but I've definitely been in situations where I've felt like an outsider because of a general feeling of, if not outright rejection, just... frostiness, snootiness, because I wasn't one of the crowd: I was just a n00b, or an unintelligent fangirl, or a bog-standard writer, or someone who liked a different pairing. :/ ...Thinking about it, maybe it *is* me after all. ^^;;

As to fics, well, I have to admit it does bother me a little when people never post to comms - largely because, if it's not on a comm, how am I meant to share in the goodness?! I love having good fic to read, and going to someone's journal feels so much more like stalking. ^^' It's how I'm having to navigate round my latest fandom. LJ needs a "stalkstalk" facility, where you can keep all the writers you follow on a list, without having to be obtrusive and intrude on people's "friends of" lists! - Which, again, seems to be an example of that cliqued-out feeling... you don't feel able to crash the party, no matter how good your intentions. :/

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Hmmm I suppose... but some people really just don't like communities, so there's nothing we can do but to respect that.

since a long time ago people have been saying instead of "friends list" it should be renamed to "reading list", so you are "read by" somebody instead of "friend of", which sounds more reasonable...

[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

Some people like to write without actually being part of the 'fandom'. It's perfectly reasonable.

I actually do have a 'watching' list of people I haven't friended and probably wouldn't friend me but whose fic I read. I just add to the links in a private post when I find them. I probably check that more often than the comms, especially since I tend to filter those out when memes like '20 things' are going around. It's just a more accessible form of bookmarking really.

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

I guess personally, when it comes right down to it, I wouldn't ever write fanfiction if no-one else was going to see it. I like fandom, regardless of what it might feel about me, lol, so I suppose that I, selfishly enough, feel a bit sad when people don't feel the same.

[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

Neither would I - but not sharing on an lj community isn't the same as not sharing. There's a lot of immature behaviour in fandom and I'm one of the people who shies away from that. I also prefer to post my (miniscule output of) fic using a particular layout and in a place where I don't feel constrained about going back to change it later, or worry about catering to an 'audience'. Although, considering half my fic revolves single parent Ken and a small army of difficult children, I think it's safe to say the audience would be be pretty limited anyway.