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Waaaay behind on this, both posting and reading other people's entries, but I'll do my best to catch up this week 😊
Challenge #3
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
Oooooh, that's a long, long list. I've been in fandom for a good 25-ish years at this point, and I'm a very different person now at 36 then I was at 11 - which I hope is no surprise to anyone 😆
To pick one of the most prominent changes, I'll go with "question why you like certain things". For example, as a kid, all my favorite characters were boys and men. I was very convinced all female characters were boring and one note (I grew up during the 90s in a small town in northern Sweden so the idea of anything outside of female/male didn't reach me until my late teens at the earliest).
Part of this has of course been internalized sexism (yay...) but I've come to realize that's not the whole answer, because I have instantly gone "that's my fave" about female characters without first having to deconstruct my gut reaction. Turns out that the tropes I like in my favorite characters rarely get to be portrayed by non-male characters in the kind of way I enjoy. My solution thus far has been to create my own favorite characters in non-fanfic projects, expand on interesting background characters from my fandoms + dive deeper into main characters I might not have taken an instant liking to, to see if there might just be something of my kind of thing in there 💖
In contrast with that, a way simpler "I didn't think I liked this thing" situation is M/F ships. Turns out I like them just fine, it's the heteronormativity of some fics or canons I read/watched early on that put me off 😅
Challenge #3
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
Oooooh, that's a long, long list. I've been in fandom for a good 25-ish years at this point, and I'm a very different person now at 36 then I was at 11 - which I hope is no surprise to anyone 😆
To pick one of the most prominent changes, I'll go with "question why you like certain things". For example, as a kid, all my favorite characters were boys and men. I was very convinced all female characters were boring and one note (I grew up during the 90s in a small town in northern Sweden so the idea of anything outside of female/male didn't reach me until my late teens at the earliest).
Part of this has of course been internalized sexism (yay...) but I've come to realize that's not the whole answer, because I have instantly gone "that's my fave" about female characters without first having to deconstruct my gut reaction. Turns out that the tropes I like in my favorite characters rarely get to be portrayed by non-male characters in the kind of way I enjoy. My solution thus far has been to create my own favorite characters in non-fanfic projects, expand on interesting background characters from my fandoms + dive deeper into main characters I might not have taken an instant liking to, to see if there might just be something of my kind of thing in there 💖
In contrast with that, a way simpler "I didn't think I liked this thing" situation is M/F ships. Turns out I like them just fine, it's the heteronormativity of some fics or canons I read/watched early on that put me off 😅
