#cipher vents

Gonna vent a little…

Witnessing the half-life of so many people’s relationship with fandom nowadays is so…hmmm. It gives me this sort of pitying dread. You’re never obligated to stay in a fandom that no longer rings you joy, but the way I’ve seen several people now Announce their “retirement” from certain fandoms (and no, this isn’t just the dca fandom I’m seeing this in) when they no longer want to make a bunch of content is so symptomatic of this poisonous idea of the content creator vs the fan, and how you can’t really be considered part of a community if you’re not producing for that community all the time. Guys, this is NOT how fandom has always been. This is new and this is awful. Please kill the capitalist that lives in your brain and is trying to infect the fan in you and its relationship to fandom. Are people just uninterested in j retracting with things that don’t bring the same dopamine high as they did when they first encountered it and were newly obsessed? And how much does that speak to peoples’ wide relationship with media nowadays?

Clawing my eyes out. I guess the parts needed to repair my laptop are on back order so I won’t be getting it back for awhile yet.

Did I ever mention that the first time I got Covid, a few things started tasting like rot? Namely, fruit and mint. This was fine because after I recovered it went back to normal.