So I can feel the tug of a new fandom coming on, and I'm pissed off about it. It'd be stupid to deny; about every...what, six months? four months? I transition from fandom to fandom. When I was a little kid I'd do the same thing - cycle through obsessions, getting impossibly involved in whatever I was interested in, and then completely abandoning it as soon as I found something new. Obviously it's more subtle than that these days, but I still hate it. You know that girl in school, the one that dates a guy and proclaims her deep undying love for him and then loses interest and breaks up with him a few months later only to start it all over again with another guy? I feel like I'm that girl. Getting into a new fandom should be really fun, where you just lose yourself in all the opportunities it has to offer, but for me it's actually the worst part of being into something. I feel like I'm betraying my 'past loves', as it were. I'm impossibly jealous of people that stick with one fandom for years, but I've never been able to do that.
It probably has something to do with creativity: I'm always way more productive as far as fanworks go at the start of a fandom, and then my inspiration slowly dwindles away. I also tend to go through cycles that repeat themselves - when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I was really into anime, but that gave way to the X-Files which gave way to MCR which gave way to other bandom which gave way to anime again. For a while, I'd think 'this is it, this is what I'm going to love for the rest of my life', but after a few cycles I realized that was basically the farthest from the truth. I guess it's just that I'm a teenager and I'm exploring what the world has to offer, blah blah blah, but I always fucking loathe feeling myself slip into a new fandom. I feel like going around to everyone and apologizing, 'cause it must be extremely fucking annoying for other people to witness.
This is kind of a stupid thing to worry about, right? It's gonna happen regardless of how apologetic and guilty I feel. But - I don't know, it's one of the things I hate most about myself, and I wish I could change it but it don't look like that's gonna happen anytime soon.
I dunno, whatever. Cry more asshole, etc etc. I don't even know why I wrote an LJ entry about this. Catharsis or something.
It probably has something to do with creativity: I'm always way more productive as far as fanworks go at the start of a fandom, and then my inspiration slowly dwindles away. I also tend to go through cycles that repeat themselves - when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I was really into anime, but that gave way to the X-Files which gave way to MCR which gave way to other bandom which gave way to anime again. For a while, I'd think 'this is it, this is what I'm going to love for the rest of my life', but after a few cycles I realized that was basically the farthest from the truth. I guess it's just that I'm a teenager and I'm exploring what the world has to offer, blah blah blah, but I always fucking loathe feeling myself slip into a new fandom. I feel like going around to everyone and apologizing, 'cause it must be extremely fucking annoying for other people to witness.
This is kind of a stupid thing to worry about, right? It's gonna happen regardless of how apologetic and guilty I feel. But - I don't know, it's one of the things I hate most about myself, and I wish I could change it but it don't look like that's gonna happen anytime soon.
I dunno, whatever. Cry more asshole, etc etc. I don't even know why I wrote an LJ entry about this. Catharsis or something.
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