Jesus fuck, I could rant about this all day, but it boils down to me screaming SAME. It's also absurdly disgusting how acceptable it is for adult men to do something fannish, yet anyone outside of that small bubble admits to reading fanfiction once and they're burned alive.
I'm so glad to be as active in fandom as an adult. I'm 100% certain Darkness/Starlight would've been a hot mess if I actually wrote it during college when the idea first occurred to me. As fucky as life can be, having the luxury of a stable income is so amazing. Shit, I got a new vacuum and I don't feel like I'm going to fall apart if like, my car got a flat tomorrow or whatever.
And what boggles me is... who the fuck do these whippersnappers think is making the fucking content they're fanning out over??? It sure as hell isn't another teenager. Spoiler - they're adults. Going to PAX East this year and seeing a vast majority of devs (especially indie devs) being the same age bracket as me was really cool. Like we were nerds back then being told we were playing too many video games and it was just a phase, only to grow up and be making the next cool thing.
There are so many older generations that belittle younger generations for liking things the prior doesn't get. I hate that. And I imagine the people being ridiculed hate that too. So why the fuck think it's ok to give someone else similar treatmeant? I'd be curious to see what those same people think ten years down the road, when they should be "over" it by now and doing literally nothing but paying taxes and making babies and... uh... more taxes?
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Date: 2020-06-12 06:45 pm (UTC)I'm so glad to be as active in fandom as an adult. I'm 100% certain Darkness/Starlight would've been a hot mess if I actually wrote it during college when the idea first occurred to me. As fucky as life can be, having the luxury of a stable income is so amazing. Shit, I got a new vacuum and I don't feel like I'm going to fall apart if like, my car got a flat tomorrow or whatever.
And what boggles me is... who the fuck do these whippersnappers think is making the fucking content they're fanning out over??? It sure as hell isn't another teenager. Spoiler - they're adults. Going to PAX East this year and seeing a vast majority of devs (especially indie devs) being the same age bracket as me was really cool. Like we were nerds back then being told we were playing too many video games and it was just a phase, only to grow up and be making the next cool thing.
There are so many older generations that belittle younger generations for liking things the prior doesn't get. I hate that. And I imagine the people being ridiculed hate that too. So why the fuck think it's ok to give someone else similar treatmeant? I'd be curious to see what those same people think ten years down the road, when they should be "over" it by now and doing literally nothing but paying taxes and making babies and... uh... more taxes?
Sigh.