Absence, Future, Monsters, and Fandom Culture · 1:38am Jul 20th, 2020

First off, I'm totally just writing this on the fly, so please forgive little mistakes and if I start to ramble a little.

I've been here for 6 years now. Time has sort of gotten away from me so I missed my anniversary by about a month. Before anything else, I want to say that I love this place. I love the stories. I've made wonderful friends here.

But I just can't anymore.

If you're a fan of the things that I write that can legal be called "stories," you've probably noticed a lack of any new content in a while now. I've tried. I really have. I have ideas. I have so many ideas. I think they'd be really fun, but, honestly, I can't bring myself to write anything "fun,"
anymore.

I thought it was an MLP fandom problem at first. It seems like every day there's a new pedophile. It seems like every day there's another outspoken white supremacist. I can't escape it. Twitter. Reddit. HERE. It's never ending. This fandom have some people I'll consider friends for the rest of my life, but it is also FULL of monsters.

So alright, maybe I can move to another fandom! All fandoms have fanfiction.

But I realized something. It's not an MLP fandom problem. It's a human problem. It always has been, and over the last few years, these monsters can't help but saturate every single fandom with their disgusting evil. I can't seem to escape it because it is truly inescapable. I feel dirty just sharing fandoms with these people, and I can't make myslef feel clean no matter how hard I try.

It's a human problem. It's a fandom problem.

So what are my options? Ignore it? constantly arguing with these people while I'm just trying to enjoy a little escapism FROM the unrelenting evil that is EVERYWHERE?

No, I can't do that.

Bronies, Otaku, Gamers, Furries. It doesn't matter. They're everywhere like a fucking disease that infect everything they touch.

I just can't do it anymore.

So I'm taking the only real option for me.

I'm not giving up these things that I love, but I am giving up on fandoms.

I just don't want to feel pure depression every time I want to play a game or watch a cartoon because it just reminds of the people IN the fandoms.

I know most of you are wonderful people, and I'm not ending my friendships, I just don't want to see it everywhere I go every day anymore.

I may just be speaking from emotion and I may change my mind, but I just feel so defeated right now.

I am totally up to staying friends and to keep talking. My discord is Codi#8912 .

Swoot Swoot

Later.

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