Random Fandom Related Poll

[author_by_night]

[Poll #1282978]Obviously I couldn't cover everything - not enough room, plus I really don't know every fandom. But I've been meaning to do a "scariest fandom" poll/arc type thing for a long time, just for the fun of it.

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[petitecrivan.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who by far. Rabid fandom since the 60s. SO MUCH CANON.

[frankieb-sq87.livejournal.com]

LOLOL

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

Also, Avatar. Some weird, scary stuff going down with them.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how on earth did I forget them?

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

They totally stole HP's shipping war mojo.

[discord-harmony.livejournal.com]

I put bandom (even though I'm a part of it) because it was always what I used as a moral compass. "Well, at least I'm not in bandom..." And look how that turned out, ahaha.

And like, there are different parts of scary, for sure. Bandom is scary because all these people are real. Harry Potter is scary because there's so many horrible ships. Just, each fandom has it's thing that scares people away.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

What's funny about bandom is not just the fan fiction side, but everyone whose a fan is involved. Fan fiction just seems to tie people together and majority of people don't take it seriously enough and know its just them being pervs. But then you got the people that insists that the guys are gay in real life and ~in love~.

But I'm going to put bandom because I've never met such a nasty fandom. They tend to be the nastiest people I will run across. Now some are insanely nice, but the majority are people I rather not associate with. And I've been involved with the X-Files and Harry Potter and those people can get up there on the nasty scale because of the shipper wars.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

put bandom (even though I'm a part of it)

Eh, it's healthy to admit your fandom is scary. I tell everyone how crazy Harry Potter fandom is, after all. *Shrugs*

I must admit that bandom people being real is what made it appeal less to me, but considering I once wrote a fic where these random celebrities were all in high school... (I was about thirteen at the time, maybe fourteen or fifteen, but still.)

[daksian.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter still wins for scary batshit insanity, though Twilight is threatening to beat that in fandom (since it couldn't, you know, beat Harry Potter in terms of quality elsewhere).

I've heard that Star Trek and Lord of the Rings fandom can get pretty insane too. :P

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

LOTR fandom is probably old enough that a lot of old stuff can get re-dug up again, so it might be insane that way. I'm not in it - I tried when I was trying to read the books, but I couldn't get into them, so I didn't get into the fandom.

Star Trek is probably the same way. Again, I don't know, I'm not in that fandom either, but I imagine that the same stuff would apply.

[vytresna.livejournal.com]

I'm only on the periphery of LotR fandom, but hypothetical ass-kicking threads regarding any magical entity are bloody battlegrounds because defining power levels just wasn't a thing Tolkien did. And the question of whether Balrogs have actual, physical wings is of course a good one, because AFAIK, it's the only potential plot hole they really have to work with, so the people who enjoy flaws and the people who want their text immaculate see it as the ultimate choke-point. All in all, though, it's a pretty placid scene.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who is pretty batshit (forget shipping wars, they have wars over whether you should ship *at all*). And HP is classic for crazy, of course. I would nominate Heroes, but the crazy is more down to a refusal to be deterred by canon than anything else. Which I kind of admire. And some *extremely* cracktastic canon.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

they have wars over whether you should ship *at all*).

I love it. Although I can see it getting non-amusing and annoying fast...

I would nominate Heroes, but the crazy is more down to a refusal to be deterred by canon than anything else. Which I kind of admire. And some *extremely* cracktastic canon.

I only was in the fandom one season, and to be honest, I couldn't get into it because of the whole ignoring canon thing. Although I admit before I even read the fics or anything, when I was catching up on it, I thought Claire and Peter seemed to be flirting a little. Then I remembered they were related (I was spoiled), which was a turn off, to say the last.

And yeah, the canon is pretty cracktastic.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, "bandom" is winning out over furries??? I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what the fuck bandom actually is. I go away from LJ for two years and come back to find it having invaded the journals of a few of my flisters. I mean, I get what it is in concept, but...yeah. I just don't get it.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Me either, to be honest.

I think the thing with bandom is that there's no real canon to worry about, since well - everyone knew Clay Aiken was gay even though he said he wasn't, right? And it's sort of become its own culture.

[huehau.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'd call Twilight the scariest, but I do think it's the most annoying and I definitely feel the most contempt for it.

Yeah, I don't think I've worked out my issues with THAT BOOK yet.

[nore-fortuna.livejournal.com]

I'll fill out the poll but then add...

I'd say actors/actresses (Gerard Butler for one) and musicians (Josh Groban & Clay Aiken as an example) fandoms, there seems to be something about *real* people that makes the fans crazier.

[sea_thoughts]

Tie between Bandom and Furry: bandom is REAL PEOPLE (I just don't get it) and Furry... well, yeah.

I think HP is more insane but Twilol, as miss__sophia and I call it, is slowly catching up.

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

bandom is REAL PEOPLE

*sporfle*

Sorry, I just had a Soylent Green flashback, which made me think of Charlton Heston, which, in the context of this post, made me LMAO.

Yeah, I'll stop comment hijacking now...

[sea_thoughts]

I didn't even think about it that way but now I do and it's HILARIOUS! XD

[vytresna.livejournal.com]

Ah geez, I was just thinking scary in terms of flame wars when I voted, but what the Death Note fandom gains with its civil debate, it more than loses with all the people who think Light had the right way of going about things.

You're considering it, then, I take it? :)