Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

Alright-now that you've got the Gilligan's Island theme in your head...Remember how in the first season The Professor and Mary Ann were only "And the rest"? Keep that in mind.

Yesterday someone posted something stupid (what, I have no idea because I did the craziest damn thing, I skipped it because it sounded stupid) in House/Wilson a interweb community dedicated to all things House and Wilson related. All things. The good. The bad. The unbelievably, eye bleedingly bad. The OH MY G-D THE HUMANITY!!! bad. It's all there. I posted my first fic there. People have been very welcoming to me there and I appreciate that the community for being the way it is.

Enter Moony. Yesterday, Moony posted, in a now flocked or bahleeted post, that s/h/it was "Fucking done with House_Wilson" because all that was left there was poorly written shit. That went over so well that s/h/it created a moderated, invite only comm called Hausvilson-cute, and so S2, if not 1. A couple dozen invites were sent, 5 people accepted. The uninvited became righteously indignant. Yes, I was among the univited. I wouldn't have joined anyway. I don't care about being a Big Name Fan. Has there ever been an instance when I've been worried too much about being liked? I don't give a fuck. What I do love is a good grudge match. I just want to be amusing in the way I'm capable. I don't need to be recognized by a known shit-stirrer (relevant entries deleted) to consider myself a decent member of the community. I have no problem with it, I think it could be very cool, but the was this was handled was the definition of not cool.

Leiascully makes a well thought out and intelligent post in response to this situation. Moony pops in and tries to defend her defenseless position. A task that would have been much easier if the community had been created sometime other than after 2 straight weeks of huffing and puffing about how few people correspond to her idea of what makes a good story. Another fan could pull this community off. Someone that enjoyed fandom for what it is and doesn't let politics and hierarchy skew her opinion on someone's work. The kind of fan that wouldn't start this kind of community.

In the last post linked above Moony begins the process of back-pedaling. First, she says that the community is open to suggestions. When faced with points regarding her lack of open-mindedness and general drama queen antics she begins to state that maybe it 'just isn't worth it.' A couple of hours later, she is thinking that the community should be taken off of invite only status (most likely because nearly all of the invited people have made it known the don't play that kind of game and some of the people that might play that game apparently weren't invited).

A few others weigh in. I participated in only one of these conversations. I'm easy to find. The dog gives it away if the name doesn't.


A one person unanimous compromise is reached.

I am fascinated by this stuff. What fascinates me most is the sensible conversation that went on. There's an easy target, who is acting persecuted, but who is just disliked. Everyone else is being very intelligent about the whole thing. I believe that shows that fandom isn't in trouble. It's in flux. And thank G-d for that. A static community is a dead community