these football cosplayers need to put some effort in. They don't even bother to get the shorts and shoes right & rarely try make-up.
― woof, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
There's a popular tumblr dedicated to mocking people wearing full kit outside of a playing context.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 16 May 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
i remember that. full kit on adults is a weird look
― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 May 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Enjoying the avenue we're going down atm, my main thing was the whole BB 'OMG INTERPOL BOYZZZZZ' shit but as she's not here lets carry on with the varying levels of football fanaticism
― online hardman, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
i like it when people really get into their freakish manias but i hate it when they get together and build some normalized (and trending towards conservative) social conventions around it and adult sports fandom seems like the endpoint of such a thing.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 16 May 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
Most enlightening thread
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Friday, 16 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
How true is it, really, that adult fandom goes along with being a fuckup of a person?
― cardamon, Friday, 16 May 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
it doesn't, this is just another 'cool/uncool' thread dressed up as amateur psycholog
― brimstead, Friday, 16 May 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
as someone who's beefed with BB quite violently in the recent past (and is pretty apologetic for some of the things he said, fwiw - playing the 'you want offensive HERE'S OFFENSIVE' card was deeply crass) I gotta say: this is the lamest going-not-all-the-way-behind-back bitching-session shit I ever did see, and it reeks of self-pity. you're too young to be jaded, dorke. you can still achieve things in your life. no need to start projecting a failure that hasn't necessarily happened yet
― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Friday, 16 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
I hope Branwell posts here and rips the threadstarter a new one
― sarahell, Friday, 16 May 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Oh hang on is this thread someone being snarky
― cardamon, Friday, 16 May 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
You are not welcome on this thread. Good day to you madam.
― Sausage Party (Bob Six), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Phil D otm
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 May 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
the day online hardman cried
― mattresslessness, Friday, 16 May 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
like I genuinely just got IRL dismayed at the prospect of two millionaires leaving spurs to be replaced by two different millionaires who will then perform appointed tasks in that organisation in their stead. idk.
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
if luka and bale didn't break you nothing will mate
― pandemic, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
I can't do it again
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:54 (ten years ago) link
adult fandom is great. wtf, thread? i'm glad that people's imaginations get captured by stuff, especially if that stuff makes them happy and allows them to meet similarly captured fellow travelers. better than getting all crazy about the rapture or the gold standard or w/e.
full disclosure: my mom cuts pictures of benedict cumberbatch out of waiting room magazines.
― katsu kittens (contenderizer), Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm confused by this thread too, especially since ilx is full of mostly obsessive fans of all sorts. As far as I know there is no line to cross between fan and fandom. And if there is, where would that line be? I've never been in a fan club or made officially recognised contributions to anything but I'd still say I'm part of many fandoms because I enjoy, support and communicate about these things.
But I do dislike fan consumerism and many other fannish traits intensely and believe that those tendencies destroy the good things. The word "fanboy" is a valid insult in my eyes.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
most people - adults, even! - are fans of something or someone to a greater or lesser degree and it just manifests in different ways
an adult with no cultural enthusiasm or the willingness to display it - someone who just stays in their lane and drearily consumes whatever their demographic is supposed to be into - is much weirder and duller than someone unabashedly excited about a sport or author or musician or whatever that they love
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
fandom is the mechanism by which dreary consumption and lane calcification happens though
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
I wouldn't consider myself a part of any particular fandom (Fandom?) but I do appreciate that various fandoms exist for things that I like. Like Tuomas, I appreciate there being people who want to have in depth conversations about the media I enjoy. I can also really see the appeal of immersing yourself deeper into a particular world. I think video games offer this opportunity, but I am uniformly terrible at the kind of video games that provide immersive environments, so it is fun sometimes to read websites or "extended universe" stuff about fictional characters I like. Sure some people get really weird about it and tying your identity up completely with somebody else's creative input might cause some problems but people get weird about everything. I guess I mostly see fandoms as harmless often charming hobbies.
Oh god no wait I've gone to multiple Star Trek conventions so I guess I take back the first part of my comment. LLAP.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
creative output, not input
Also I think fandom as it originally sprung from the geek/sci fi/Star Trek/slash fic/convention-type mentality is a whole other animal from sports fandom, if for no other reason than liking sports, even fanatically, is considered a normal, positive way of interacting with popular culture, insofar as its strongly encouraged (wear your favorite team jersey to work day, for example) and met with approval. Fandom as in fictional universe fandom is still very much associated with basement dwelling dorks with no social skills, etc. etc. etc., and considered ripe for mocker. Like, when everybody is talking about going to a Cubs game on Saturday I'm sure not going to pipe up "Oh well, there is this movie event where theaters show remastered versions ST:TNG episodes on the big screen!"* So two different animals, IMO.
*Actually I totally would. Fuck the haterz.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
soi-disant online hardman explains maturity, sweet sign me up
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― house always! (wins), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
cool post
― online hardman, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Seriously, can't think of a better arbiter of what constitutes adult behavior than a representative of vice magazine who posts pathetically transparent subposts on an internet forum under that name
― house always! (wins), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
online hardman is a vice mag rep? great HBO program, dude. kudos.
― Mordy, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
jk it's a rubbish name
if some dude calls you tanline nerdman will u change it
― house always! (wins), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
http://static.thecia.com.au/star-trek/deep-space-nine/7/02b5.jpgstar trek sports fandom
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 22 May 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
CA killin it itt
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 May 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Being too cool to express enthusiasm is soooo coool
― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 7 July 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaKskB43I_M
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
cool revive
― mattresslessness, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
SHOTS FIRED
― online hardman, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:19 (ten years ago) link
mods wtf
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:38 (ten years ago) link
Dwight Yorke, back with a vengence!
― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 12:19 (ten years ago) link
we used to be m8s m8
― online hardman, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
You were great.
― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Anyway. What you listening to atm? Into any of the PC Music stuff? I can't get enough of that at the moment.
Thom M aka Jim_F is trying to get me to go see Perfume in Ldn in Nov, fancy a meetup?
― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
gonna ilx message ya
― online hardman, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
the issues raised in this thread I think have made me less of a spurs fan
thanks tbf
― blap setter (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
A pretty good piece in the Atlantic about antis in the context of Depp v Heard.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
Interesting, disturbing read. Makes sense that the conspiratorial mindset of recent years - qanon, flat earth, anti vaxx - would spread in these ways I guess.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
Oh very much so. Horrific to see. The linked tumblr essay in that piece was very good.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link
The pathologies on display cross over a great deal with what a lot of Americans think about political folks, too
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
imo, fandom in general trends toward pathology and the stronger it is, the unhealthier it is.
About the only fanatical fandom I think deserves any slack are fans whose lives are so physically constrained that their experience of the world outside of their room(s) is almost entirely mediated, so that apart from meeting their most basic physical needs they live vicariously through identification with their chosen idols. Not coincidentally, the idols of choice among this demographic tend to be athletes.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
I recently discovered that there's a zoomer fandom for classic Hollywood, and they even do the "x is cancelled" type discourse around whatever someone in the fandom has dug up on some ancient stars. Today I read the sentence "the stuff that's coming out about Marlene Dietrich is some truly wild shit"; not quite as good as a few days ago tho when I saw someone say "Henry Fonda looks suss fr".
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 18 July 2022 10:39 (two years ago) link