I personally love critical discussion, and it's one of my main fannish activities. That's why I follow so many meta comms. For me it's a fun, positive experience. It makes me feel very connected to other fans, like, yes, we care about this show, and choose to engage with it. I find it thought-provoking, I find it stimulates my creative impulses to write fic, even vid if I ever learn how, and it generally broadens my horizons and expands my world-view.
Squee doesn't interest me much, and sometimes it can even harsh my meta. Invented example: "Is Neal one of those con men who thinks that the money he gets from his victims is fair payment for the "experience" he sells them?" "IDK, but omg his blue, blue eyes are so pretteeee!" Meta, harshed.
It only makes sense that the squeeful feel that critical discussion harshes their squee. Dreamwidth gives us that awesome, wonderful tag filter - why not put it to good use.
Tag the squee posts with "squee", tag the discussion posts with "discussion", tag both with the relevant episode, character, and actor tags, and we can all have a good experience reading this comm.
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I personally love critical discussion, and it's one of my main fannish activities. That's why I follow so many meta comms. For me it's a fun, positive experience. It makes me feel very connected to other fans, like, yes, we care about this show, and choose to engage with it. I find it thought-provoking, I find it stimulates my creative impulses to write fic, even vid if I ever learn how, and it generally broadens my horizons and expands my world-view.
Squee doesn't interest me much, and sometimes it can even harsh my meta. Invented example: "Is Neal one of those con men who thinks that the money he gets from his victims is fair payment for the "experience" he sells them?" "IDK, but omg his blue, blue eyes are so pretteeee!" Meta, harshed.
It only makes sense that the squeeful feel that critical discussion harshes their squee. Dreamwidth gives us that awesome, wonderful tag filter - why not put it to good use.
Tag the squee posts with "squee", tag the discussion posts with "discussion", tag both with the relevant episode, character, and actor tags, and we can all have a good experience reading this comm.