When fandoms end... · 10:21pm Jun 28th, 2015
... it isn't in the blaze of glory, the triumphant finale of a great adventure, the defeat of the enemy or the grand consumation of all that had come before.
There is no impassioned speech.
No crescendo.
No cheering crowd...
Like all things, they fade, slowly, inexorably to nothing. Like Kirk, they die alone. Like Batty, their memories are lost to the rain. Like gods they are abandoned to the dry and empty places, whispering of their days of former of glory, of grand temples, and songs and tales, and millions of followers. Whispering to a world that no longer hears them.
Like all things, they die.
But for now they live, and fight, and argue, and sing, and create, and love. Remember, when that shipper won't let go of their dream, or that artist insists on their style, or that reviewer keeps complaining about the episode you love, that this is life.
Let it breath.
Let it fight.
There will be time enough to complain when it's gone.
Well said. Also, excellent use of blog tags.
Lovely. Reminds me a little of Orson Welles speech in F for Fake
Some fandoms last a very long time. Think Greek mythology.
For that matter, think My Little Pony itself. It started in the 1980's.
We don't have to let it die. It can regenerate.
As long as there is a fan who cares about the show, there will be a fandom.
3190424 Ohh that voice and those words...
It kind of reminds me of a time when me and the wife were in Florence. We saw a church, big old thing (as if that's any surprise in Italy), and high up on one part of it was a gargoyle in the image of a little dog. Back in the days when such things were built, the stonemasons had a certain amount of leeway in what they carved, and that one particular mason had chosen to carve his dog. It might have been a tribute, or just an idle fancy, but that's what he chose.
Nobody knows his name, or the dog's name, but that little dog has lived on centuries beyond his master. Nobody knows anything about him. He's just there, watching the world pass by.
3190387 What are tags, but a miserable pile of attempts to categorise the world into neat little boxes?
3190430 Perhaps distant generations will speak of the triumph of Twilight Sparkle, who stole friendship from the gods and in punishment was hung upon the tree of knowledge that burned with the dawn of each day, and forced to watch her friends toil without end to carry the apples of wisdom to the peak of the mountain of harmony.
Nothing ever dies it just comes back in a different form just like this show did
Still going strong!
I'm curious now. When was the last time a fandom legitimately died?
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Good question. With the existence of internet, I think any fandom can settle down into an almost indefinite period of suspended animation.