The Fandoms Need You!!

Do you like books? Do you like film? Are you a fan of the Avengers? Then there is a fandom for you!

This is basically how you are recruited into the realm of the Fandom. There are fandoms for every book, every film, every graphic novel and even every actor.

Too complex for you? Then here’s a small illustration.

Sally is a fan of the Hobbit, Harry Potter and Tom Hiddleston. There are three fandoms that appeal to her: the Hobbit fandom, the Potterdom, and the fandom known as Hiddlestoners. The “beauty” of fandoms is that you don’t have to choose to be part of one…you can be a part of as many as you like.

That’s how you get sucked in, unfortunately.

Plus, when you become a part of the fandom, you aren’t just you anymore. You are a fangirl/fanboy. A lot of fangirls and fanboys have already developed a very bad reputation. Do you remember when Coriolanus was featured at the Donmar Warehouse last year?

The Hiddlestoner fandom earned a terrible reputation because of the disrespect a select few showed the other patrons and the disrespect they showed to the performers themselves, including Mr. Hiddleston himself. The worst part is that quite a large number of fandom members were completely respectful and innocent. A few bad apples spoiled the entire barrel. They were just rounded together because they were all Hiddlestoners.

I will clarify one caveat about the fangirls/fanboys. Not all of them are crazy, obsessed individuals who live in a dream world. Some of them are professionals…some of them are respectable members of the community…some of them are mothers and fathers…a lot of them are kind, respectable people.

Once you are a part of the fandom, they don’t prepare you for what lies ahead.

However, that’s another story that I will regale you with another time.

Dear reader, please don’t assume that I am attacking every individual in a fandom. I’m just exposing the fandom itself and every negative thing it signifies. For everyone still in the fandom, please be careful and never forget that you are a unique, special individual who means a lot to the world. You don’t need to be defined by what you enjoy…just be yourself!