Category: Fans Misbehaving

  • Sinking Ships

    Shipping, or, to be pedantic ‘shipping, via “relationshipping”, is the fantasist’s version of match-making. Now, I have zero issue with day-dreaming, creative thinking, fantasising, or wishful thinking. When it’s staying in your head, or being adapted into original thought or content, it’s incredibly healthy and productive. That’s not always the outcome, though. I only discovered…

  • A Sense of Entitlement in Fans

    I kind of covered this recently in another post, but YouTube threw a short at me last night that I can’t stop thinking about, so I thought I’d talk about it here, as an addendum to my Fanning the Flames post. Watch the YouTube short that made me write this here. This guy is called Chan, a…

  • Fanning Flames

    Actors and musicians don’t owe us a thing. Interaction is a privilege. Intimacy is not an option. Our rights do not go beyond product we’ve purchased, and we shouldn’t forget that. As someone who has, on a minuscule scale, had fans, and as a Kiwi who grew up in a country where people are mostly…