Ugh I don't know how to deal with it. You know... I hate the sound of velcro, it gives me chills and makes me shudder and if you fiddle with velco around me I'll probably get really pissed off at you. It's like nails on a chalkboard. And that's kind of how I feel about Supernatural right now.

I liked your point about people you're more of a friendfriend of than just a fandomfriend. I suppose that's true. Although you never really want to think of people in those terms. But I suppose it is true in many cases.

I mean, Ais, you've been in fandom longer than me (LotR, right?) and so I'm sure you've gone through this many times over, but for me it's kind of a new deal. Before LVI I was never a big participant in one particular fandom or another. I was a member of a movie chat group and I wrote a little bit of fanfic (Dawson'sCreek). Beyond that I simply bounced around and had no real "home." If I stopped liking something, then no big deal because it wasn't a collective thing. It was individual.

Of course, there's never been a situation in which I've gone from loving to loathing a show like I have with SPN. Any fading interest in the past was just that... fading. Not a full stop. Shows end or your interest/activity gradually slows down, or both! By the time you're "over it" the fandomfriends you bonded with over said fandom have probably already moved on, or maybe together you've moved on to talking about other things and become more friendfriends. But with SPN that is not the case at all.

(And someone else said, they feel like their flist is obsessed because so many people talk about it. Like if I suddenly decided Pushing Daisies was the worst thing on earth? No big deal because the fandom, and the percentage of my flist that actually talks about it, is microscopically small in comparison to SPN.)

Anyway, I'm trying not to stress about it. But I'm actually finding it difficult not to be annoyed by it. That velcro man, UGH!