quitting a canon or fandom, for taliahale

[healingmirth]

Is there anything that will make you immediately abandon a fandom/canon? What's the line for you? If you don't have a force quit reaction to anything, what makes you drift out of a fandom to greener pastures?

I've been thinking about this! Because I've gradually abandoned at least twenty fandoms, for no reason more complex than something else did a slightly better job of lighting up my brain, and for several days, that collection of fannish drift was drowning out my memory of having intentionally left anything.



*For all of these, I had, at a minimum, a fic-reading period that lasted at least three months.

**reconstructed from the fic I wrote, and the fic I recced here on my journal and bookmarked elsewhere.

Veronica Mars, Dark Angel, Stargate SG:1, The Office, Stargate: Atlantis, Torchwood, Harry Potter (overwhelmingly Snarry), Merlin (barely; watched two episodes, read a bunch of fic) NCIS, Leverage, Supernatural, SPN RPF, Avengers Comics (mostly Captain America/Iron Man and largely pre-MCU, but post-RDJ Iron Man), Bandom (all of it, good lord), Star Trek AOS, Star Trek AOS RPF, Criminal Minds, The Losers, Generation Kill, White Collar, Suits, X-Men: First Class

And that doesn't count fandoms that I came to waaaaay late, read All The Things, and moved on from - due South, The Sentinel, Sports Night, Oz.

And for further reference, I consider myself still "in" Live Free or Die Hard, American Idiot, Hockey RPF, Lewis, Teen Wolf at the moment, but I'm not reading anything in Teen Wolf but authors I'm subscribed to, and not reading most of what little is getting written in LFoDH. And I think American Idiot is pretty much just me by this point. I'd probably still count myself in Inception fandom, too.




Torchwood. Good lord, Torchwood. I was Not Happy after Exit Wounds, but after Children of Earth, I was absolutely in the irate part of fandom. I like Jack and all, but I didn't want to watch the Jack Show, and wasn't much more interested in the Jack and Gwen Show.

I don't even mind character death, much! I just thought it was written so very stupidly, and while I'm pretty sure Gwen was intended to be the audience proxy, she definitely wasn't mine, so.

I stuck around the fandom for a bit for fixits and all, but when the next series premiere approached, I was done. I had absolutely zero interest in new canon, and my need for closure had been met. So, so done.

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The only other canon I've intentionally quit is White Collar, and I'd probably even go back to it if I wasn't already perpetually behind on shows that I actually enjoy.

I was never all that deep into White Collar fandom, but I was happy to show up for Neal/Peter or Neal/Peter/El (or Neal/Clint?). I am not actually sure when I quit, but I think it was the beginning of Season 4? Whenever it was, there was an episode that wildly swung a mallet at the button to reset Peter and Neal's relationship to day zero, or possibly day less-than-zero. I am SO OVER them not being able to trust each other. I would have stayed forever to watch them negotiate the tension between their moral and legal codes, and even had a fair amount of patience for Big Mistakes, but the show just pushed too far, and didn't appear to be offering me anything else that I look for in media in compensation.

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I may be at that point with Suits, as well. I'll have to see with the new season, but I've ceased to be interested in the tension they're continually manufacturing out of Mike's secret. For me, they're about to hit the point where I have to suspend too much disbelief, even though I still love all the characters.

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I don't think (could be wrong! brain made of swiss cheese!) that I've ever had a fannish experience that's soured me enough that I decided to walk away - I've had no personal involvement in ship wars, or fandom wank of any sort

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The ship has well sailed on my doing this in any formal meme framework, but feel free to lob a question at me, and I'll do my best to have thoughts!