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Post by mareofnight on Feb 6, 2013 22:08:32 GMT
What would you do if your creation grew a fandom?
Just something I think about sometimes (not because I think it's likely, but because I hear people talking about fandoms a lot).
I'd probably find some way to troll them horribly. (No matter which story it was.) It would be just too tempting to try to mess with people. Also I just tend not to be a nice person when in writer mode |'D
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 7, 2013 4:22:05 GMT
I'm selfish. If I made something I'd be doing it for me. I might be more inclined to keep making stuff if others seemed to enjoy it since I can satisfy myself to a degree just thinking about something without actually making it.
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Post by Emily on Feb 7, 2013 9:34:09 GMT
we have a fandom (it's small but it exists)
mostly we laugh at their weird shipping ideas, are amazed by their poetry skills, and think of ways to incorporate/mess with their weird theories...
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Post by clemon on Feb 8, 2013 21:56:23 GMT
If I had a fandom (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-[x100000]-y unlikely), I'd probably avoid it. Generally if you do anything that gets a lot of attention there will be a lot of people who automatically dislike it because it gets a lot of attention (and y'know it might not be what they like), and I really don't like dealing with people who don't like my work. I should probably get over that. Practice?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 8, 2013 23:37:03 GMT
Stick to Em's model and keep it small and remain largely invisible to haters?
Although Em's fandom is a terrible influence. They'll (we'll?) have you poeticizing all over the place if you hang around them (us?) too much. I blame them for my occasional silly word-play.
Man I usually favor a more observational role in social. It seems weird to include myself as a part of anything. Throws off my pronouns.
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Post by clemon on Feb 9, 2013 21:33:50 GMT
Awww...You cannot be the lone ranger anymore!
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Post by Emily on Feb 9, 2013 22:02:14 GMT
the poetry is the best bit of our fandom for sure!
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Post by Zamisk on Feb 10, 2013 0:02:40 GMT
Robert Kirkman got some massive fandoms on his comics like Invincible and TWD (I'm talking before the current Walking Dead craze from the tv show). He constantly makes fun of the dumb ones and writes a lot of misleading plot twists and things that make some fans angry. Sounds like fun!
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Post by mareofnight on Feb 10, 2013 21:02:21 GMT
Poetry? That's awesome ^^ (I figured Em and Ally probably had something of a fandom because Em had mentioned the donation comic being especially successful compared to the readership size a while back.)
Hmm... I hadn't thought much about haters. That would be an interesting situation... Best thing to do with those probably is ignore them. Unless you can somehow trick them into liking it, but that would require a very, very high awesome level...
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Post by Emily on Feb 10, 2013 21:28:25 GMT
I think we got haters beofre we got anything else... some girl wrote this terrible review back in the day which has since been removed from the public, but it just gained us a load of new fans?
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Post by Empiremaker on Feb 11, 2013 22:29:30 GMT
Fandom? What is this strange force of which you speak?
Part of me is afraid of my work gaining a fandom because of bad experiences in other fandoms (not the webcomic scene, thank goodness.) and of the act of surrendering something dear to you to others that making something available entails. Now, it should be said this isn't stopping me from trying, but I do so with more than a little worry because... <i>shippers</i>.
Still, I'm sure everything would work out and I'll have nothing to fear. I just have to get to finishing what I've started so there is more than a vague abstraction for them.
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