#i've had people come after me SIMPLY for shipping belarke and being positive

[sometimesrosy]

What happened with the fandom in S3? I always loved the 100 and got really into Bellarke around S2 but I hadn’t joined the fandom or any fandom for that matter, until after S4 and the beginning of S5. Which I’m actually grateful for because from what I’ve heard during S3 the fandom was a mess maybe worse than now? IDK, the way everybody talks about it it sounds like it was the dark year from the 100

fanwars. shipwars. holywars.

i think there’s something to the idea that people are using media content to replace their religious beliefs, because people become nearly fanatical about their ships and interpretations, and dogma. Like you HAVE to bow down to certain interpretations, and some characters are made virtual gods, while others are made devils, and then we play out this holywar in fandom.

And I am SO not into any of that. I’m watching a STORY. Period. I can learn stuff about it about society. I can learn something about myself by engaging with it and reflecting upon it. I can ENJOY myself. But it’s nothing to worship. 

I do think it was worse in season 3. I personally got caught up in the holywars and was LITERALLY named “The devil” by some in the CL fandom. And names are still being thrown around but the race question and the homophobia question aren’t part of it, so they’re just generic character assassination. The frequent ones I get lately are “a joke” “an ass kisser,” and “you are always wrong.”

 And I’ve refused to participate in it this past season, but I can see a lot of the same dogma being spread around and I can see that people STILL believe the claims of bellarke delusion, and STILL have been conned into thinking that canon is less important than fandom feelings and opinions.

I mean, people are more important than stories, but people’s feelings and interpretations don’t invalidate the canon. The story remains the story it is without regard for how fandom likes it. Or which ship is considered good and which ship is considered evil.

I think s3 fandom was worse, and more divided and more antagonistic. This time around they target the show and the writers for a lot of their antagonism. They hate JR. Or the show itself, considering it to be a betrayal of their ship. It used to be that they considered the other fans to be the greatest evil in the world and they would attack and feel perfectly righteous.

what a mess actually.

Maybe it’s just better for me because I learned how to deal with it and cut it out of my bubble and know better what’s going on so it doesn’t confuse me as much. For someone who wasn’t personally involved in the shipwars, it might feel worse this time around as their fandom fell apart right around them. 

#fandom #the 100 fandom #every time someone tries to focus on fandom positivity they are destroyed by all the negativity #i've seen it so many times #i've had people come after me SIMPLY for shipping belarke and being positive #and i'm too stubborn to give up because I WANT TO FANGIRL OVER MY FAVORITE SHOW AND OTP and i'm gonna #and i am expert in cutting people out of my circle who are toxic so i ignore them which they hate more than anything #you shoulda SEEN what happened when I called one of my haters irrelevant. it was amusing