I'm only in a handful of fannish FB spaces (one for Good Omens memes and one for The Magnus Archives are the only ones that are terribly active). I'm very glad your spaces are pretty drama-free! These were, but then there was just like a RASH of drama in the TMA one. (A lot of it seems to be spillover from wank that was already around on twitter and tumblr.) The political stuff is another source of frustration. I've pretty much curated my experience to unfriend/unfollow/mute the conservative jackwads, but a handful of the leftist friends and spaces I'm connected to feel nearly as toxic these days.
I try not to engage overmuch with fandoms on tumblr. I like and reblog a lot, but try to avoid commenting on much anymore. It feels like a lot of it has been broader fandom stuff, like the stuff about That One Fic on ao3 that has thousands of tags and is fucking up the site for a lot of people. And the aforementioned TMA drama. (This horror podcast that has had themes of possession and corruption and replacement from the start isn't about squeaky-clean perfect 100% lawful good characters, and even the protagonist has done bad things? HOW DARE!) Fandom purity culture remains the goddamn worst.
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The political stuff is another source of frustration. I've pretty much curated my experience to unfriend/unfollow/mute the conservative jackwads, but a handful of the leftist friends and spaces I'm connected to feel nearly as toxic these days.
I try not to engage overmuch with fandoms on tumblr. I like and reblog a lot, but try to avoid commenting on much anymore. It feels like a lot of it has been broader fandom stuff, like the stuff about That One Fic on ao3 that has thousands of tags and is fucking up the site for a lot of people. And the aforementioned TMA drama. (This horror podcast that has had themes of possession and corruption and replacement from the start isn't about squeaky-clean perfect 100% lawful good characters, and even the protagonist has done bad things? HOW DARE!) Fandom purity culture remains the goddamn worst.