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Fannish Friday!
A variation on last week's question: tell me about a character (or ship) that fandom made you either love or hate. Maybe you loved or hated them in canon but fandom made you do a 180. Maybe you liked them fine or disliked them in an un-intense way, but fandom pushed you in a different direction. Maybe you had no particular feelings about them at all until fandom made you change your mind!
A ship I didn't really pay much attention to in canon is Wen Qing/Jiang Cheng from CQL. I was so focused on the other relationships on the show that this very quiet one didn't catch my eye. But then I read a lot of short meta posts on Tumblr about them and I fell in love with them. In my subsequent re-watch, I noticed how beautifully they were portrayed in the show. Maybe I would have noticed that the second time around regardless, but I don't think so. I think this is a gift that fandom gave me!
Also giving a shout-out to Dawn Summers. I liked her in the show, I loved her relationship with Buffy, but fandom is what made me become a die-hard Dawn fan. I was just so annoyed at the hate she got for being a teenage girl that I ended up loving her more out of spite. And then the more I paid attention to her out of spite, the more I just loved her for who she is till the spite became irrelevant.
As for hating, I'm not really a person who ends up hating things because of fandom? If the fandom is particularly annoying or dumb about a given character or ship, I am annoyed at the fandom, not the character or ship. But I know a lot of people have fandom-made-me-hate-it stories, so feel free to rant about those now!
A ship I didn't really pay much attention to in canon is Wen Qing/Jiang Cheng from CQL. I was so focused on the other relationships on the show that this very quiet one didn't catch my eye. But then I read a lot of short meta posts on Tumblr about them and I fell in love with them. In my subsequent re-watch, I noticed how beautifully they were portrayed in the show. Maybe I would have noticed that the second time around regardless, but I don't think so. I think this is a gift that fandom gave me!
Also giving a shout-out to Dawn Summers. I liked her in the show, I loved her relationship with Buffy, but fandom is what made me become a die-hard Dawn fan. I was just so annoyed at the hate she got for being a teenage girl that I ended up loving her more out of spite. And then the more I paid attention to her out of spite, the more I just loved her for who she is till the spite became irrelevant.
As for hating, I'm not really a person who ends up hating things because of fandom? If the fandom is particularly annoying or dumb about a given character or ship, I am annoyed at the fandom, not the character or ship. But I know a lot of people have fandom-made-me-hate-it stories, so feel free to rant about those now!
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This definitely makes sense to me.
Hand on heart, I think fandom by and large writes him as at least a bit fluffier than he actually is, but his slightly fanon-y-fied version has really grown on me
Agreed! I still don't want to read fic focused on him, but I enjoy when he shows up!
novel!LWJ.... But a mix of fanonization, constant Frankencanon bleedover and fandom wank has made me really sour on him. I don't enjoy that, it makes my reading life harder, but I can't turn it off/around anymore. :/
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.