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[meganbmoore]

[Poll #1115911][Poll #1115911] ETA: And before everyone instinctively answers, I would just like to ask: How many fandoms like to write about teenaged boys getting it on with 30 foot tall robots? Don't answer, just ponder before clicking.

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[grey-fuzzy.livejournal.com]

I voted HP, just because I've seen too much of that fandom not to. But can we talk about how the Johnny's Entertainment fandom consists entirely of inundating oneself with bad jpop and photoshopping boys into dresses? Also, this (http://whatthejin.livejournal.com/).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

A very valid point. JE(the agency) rather scares me and squicks me out, so I often try to forget about it altogether.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

(Internet based, at least) J R R Tolkien fandom is scary batshit insane. I dipped my toes warily in the water many years ago and removed them again, quick smart. And this was before the films were even announced.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I've never actually heard of anything from the LOTR fandom.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

I once got (textually) screamed at because I wasn't sufficiently homophobic. Considering that (at the time) I was discussing straight characters and not discussing sex at all I had no idea where that came from, except possibly something repressed in the screamer him- or herself.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Are we talking the Tolkien newsgroups here, or something else? I've dipped my toes into a.f.t and r.b.t. occasionally and neither seemed all *that* bad as fannish Usenet groups go -- after the films there was always the odd bit of n00b-bashing and wank over folks who only knew the movies butting horns with the sort of obsessive book fans who could cite H.O.M.E. chapter-and-verse, but many of the regulars seemed to have a sense of humor and the worst wankiness seemed to be all the off-topic political stuff that would drift in. But maybe I picked good days to wander in, and I freely admit that being one of those chapter-and-verse book nerds myself may have seriously skewed my perspective on scary insanity where Tolkien is concerned...

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

It was a newsgroup in my case - might have been r.a.b.t. I might have just shown up at a bad time though.

I was a bit of a chapter and verse nut myself, although there were much worse than me about: one infamous poster at the time was obsessed with the idea that all Balrogs had actual, physical, wings and refused even to countenance the idea that Tolkien could have been at all skilled at the art of metaphor. This Tolkien bloke was only a university professor and fairly much a professional word nerd, after all...

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

While HP is pretty damn scary, I'm afraid the Lord of the Rings fandom is far, far worse because the movies brought us RPS. D:

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

These are interesting results, because I've never heard of any LOTR fandom scary.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I think I ran away screaming when I realized people shipped the movie actors.

Mind you, RPS is my #1 squick and is guaranteed to make me curl up into a ball and weep hysterically, so perhaps I'm biased.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Nothing outcrazies the Harry Potter fans.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Do Harry Potter fans have teenaged boys getting it on with 30 foot tall robots?

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's there somewhwere.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

In one of the fandoms I am on the margins of, the phrase "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With" (in reference to a robot) is authorial canon.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, and is a fandom with suicidal teenage boys getting it on with 30-foot-tall robots more or less scary than CANON involving giant transforming robots getting constant smoochy lolicon fanservice? (http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT66908) Inquiring minds want to know...

[morwen_peredhil]

HP. Definitely. For the Snapewives, if nothing else.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Snapewives indeed.

You know...maybe i should have included buffy...

[sanada.livejournal.com]

Gundam Wing, because at least some Potter fans are somewhat familiar with the plot and characters of the series they rape.

>__>; <__<;;; but in other Gundam series, there really are robosexuals...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that in a mere 24 hours, you may have comvinced me to never touch another Gundam series again, right?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I voted for GWing based on the extreme scariness of the fic, but for batshit human interaction, HP wins hands-down.

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

I think JE fandom can be scarier than anything at times, so I voted other.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think I sometimes try to forget it out of self-preservation.

[maxineofarc.livejournal.com]

While it is true that HP does not have a lot of RPS, HAVE YOU SEEN THE FANFIC DEAR GOD THE FANFIC

I mean, for comparison, does any other fandom you can think of actually have a canon giant squid? With... tentacles and... CANON I TELL YOU.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

heh...anime/manga and fantasy in general has me used to such things.

[drealkulit.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think the GL fandom is the scariest... ;)