i just wanted to say i completely agree with your recent kp tag post. with a growing frequency i've found scrolling the tag more often tiring than enjoyable. and honestly this is one of the first times within a fandom i've felt this way strongly enough to want to stay out of it completely. sad. BUT i wanted to let you know that i have this blog on notif and i appreciate all of your posts. it really is about curating your own fandom experience and i want to say thank you for being someone i can trust and rely upon, and your takes and thoughts really do help to enhance the show. thank you for being a part of my very small and very specific fandom experience :)
Omigosh. Me? On notification? You're too kind and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
I try to be fair and not police other opinions because we are who we are and we like what we like but for me, the fandom has been a volatile experience for a lot of reasons. I felt pretty excluded towards the beginning because of reasons and I worked really hard to get to a place where I could get involved (with lots of help from the fandom) so it feels like I shouldn't give that up and go back to what feels like sitting in silence because I can't go into the tag.
But honestly, I just can't do it anymore. With popularity comes criticism and the volleying back and forth and I don't want to see it. I want to steal my faves and sit in a corner and hiss any time someone comes near.
Fandom is supposed to be fun. I've been on this tumble weed of a site for too long and we just never had this before. The only thing people were interested in was squeeing. People only wanted to talk about what they loved and the criticism was held under lock and key and was utterly filterable. Which I'm pretty sure isn't a word. But ya feel me. You literally have to experience everything at this point and that kind of barrage isn't good at the best of times.
I'm allowed to like that Porsche is a goddamn mess who doesn't know how to be a boyfriend since he's never been one. Let that sink in. He has never been a boyfriend. What is his point of reference for anything relationship related. His parents? Oh wait.
Something I didn't really say anything about but the fact that people believed Porsche to be too moral to commit murder. Maybe I'm projecting but I lost my parents before I should have and close together (to illnesses). But if they were killed by some asshole, despite being a moral person, I would have shot that bastard. The anger I feel/felt towards their illnesses, them, I can't describe it. Porsche is completely valid to act in either way. I'm not saying don't believe in his morality but don't think for one second that he isn't capable of that because that pain and grief hurts so bad. When they died he lost his safety net. No one can ever replace what a loving parent gives their child. None. His whole identity shifted in that moment and he lost not only who he was but who he should have been if life had been kinder.
And having those types of feelings about a show isn't good or healthy. As much as I love the show, it's just a show and it shouldn't affect this much. So I'm going to just stop for this week and next because I want to be happy for the last two weeks of my favorite show in a long time.













