#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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This is the twenty-sixth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I did get into this fandom due to a juggernaut fic being recced on FFA, but I also transitioned to my own team very quickly, and some of the first stories that I read and loved and that kept me in the fandom were rare pairs for rare teams. So I think how much community you feel or felt as a result of popular ships probably varied a lot and may not have been there much at all for some rare pair shippers. For me, yeah, sure, I probably got some comments from people who also read popular teams and who were okay reading for other teams as well, but I also got negativity from popular pairing shippers and, in some cases, an epic fuck ton of OTT shit, so my whole experience in this fandom has been either not having a community, only having one anon, or wandering around trying to find people to talk to around the perimeter of things.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That makes sense! But I think you're maybe using the word "community" differently from how I am, and it's possible that I used it differently from how others others meant it? I feel like there was more of a sense of community when the juggernauts were more popular, and that people were not as loosely dispersed. But I didn't necessarily "feel community" as something that I had. I understood the a-airt-rt as saying (amongst other things) that fandom felt more cohesive before and feels more spread out into smaller groups now, and I agree and in a lot of ways find that more pleasant to deal with.

I know a lot of people got into non-juggernaut teams and pairings and stayed attached to those pairings even though they came into fandom through juggernaut fic, but I suspect that that also happens less often when the juggernaut activity declines. But I think maybe I conflated fandom size/growth with the idea that there's a sense of fandom community.