late night fandom mental babble
Jun. 25th, 2004 03:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ickaimpSo we're like looking at the DC LJ comm and at ff.net when it hits me...
People aren't gonna get the jokes.
I mean... we've been in this fandom for two years now, and it's always been an established fandom in our mind. People are pretty much on the same page, watching and waiting eagerly for new chapters and information and stuff as it comes out of Japan.
And suddenly, there's this huge wave of people that aren't eagerly awaiting tankubon #46 or episode number 364 or what ever it is now... they're eagerily awaiting volume 1 or episode number 20. And that's a biiiiig gap right there.
Fates, Heiji doesn't show up until episode 48, Kid in episode 76 or Ai until 129.
So now there's this huge wave of people coming in who are going to be reading all the little snippets and short fics that were done for an established series where people already know the characters and all these little details... And. Not. Get. The. Jokes. They may laugh now, but... it's hard to -get- the jokes when you're just learning a series.
It's just kinda depressing...
... don't mind me, think a part of me is just waiting now for another e-mail from like back when Inuyasha first came to CN where we got reamed out about how Inuyasha's cloak was -red- not -pink- and I was so stupid, didn't I know anything. -when the stories in question were written before the anime with the red cloak came out... ~_~
*sighs* *looks at PYP* C'mon, Kid, Heiji. Let's go have another bar fight....
People aren't gonna get the jokes.
I mean... we've been in this fandom for two years now, and it's always been an established fandom in our mind. People are pretty much on the same page, watching and waiting eagerly for new chapters and information and stuff as it comes out of Japan.
And suddenly, there's this huge wave of people that aren't eagerly awaiting tankubon #46 or episode number 364 or what ever it is now... they're eagerily awaiting volume 1 or episode number 20. And that's a biiiiig gap right there.
Fates, Heiji doesn't show up until episode 48, Kid in episode 76 or Ai until 129.
So now there's this huge wave of people coming in who are going to be reading all the little snippets and short fics that were done for an established series where people already know the characters and all these little details... And. Not. Get. The. Jokes. They may laugh now, but... it's hard to -get- the jokes when you're just learning a series.
It's just kinda depressing...
... don't mind me, think a part of me is just waiting now for another e-mail from like back when Inuyasha first came to CN where we got reamed out about how Inuyasha's cloak was -red- not -pink- and I was so stupid, didn't I know anything. -when the stories in question were written before the anime with the red cloak came out... ~_~
*sighs* *looks at PYP* C'mon, Kid, Heiji. Let's go have another bar fight....
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Date: 2004-06-25 11:05 am (UTC)There's no reason why you can't writing. When I first joined the fandom, I didn't know who they were either, but I learned fairly quickly. If one knows where to look, and puts in the effort, it's not hard to find the proper information or scanlations and translations.
Boo them if they're lazy.
-_-;; Um...I'm not being too welcoming, am I? XD I don't mean to sound like that, but really, the shows been going on 7-8 years, and people have been joining in all the time. There's no sense to slow down the older fans to wait for the newer fans. If they really cared to learn, they could 1) learn through fanfics (which isn't always the best, but it does help) and 2) research.