I feel like I should be pouring myself a drink and lighting a cigarette because I have seen this shit and it wears you down.
I like fandoms. I don't mind the drama and I live for some of the bonkers shit that fangirls come up with, the inside jokes, the art and the stories. I'm pretty protective of fangirls to be able to nerd the fuck out in their own way. They're young and they love so deeply. I warms my cold, black heart, and it reminds me of myself when I was younger. Most of them are pretty harmless, albeit weird. I see it as a rite of passage, to have that period where you get all that embarrassing and awkward shit out of your system before you become a real adult.
That being said, however, Superwholock is marked by an aggression I've not seen in many other fandoms. They seem to have gotten it into their heads that they
own Tumblr, that they are the backbone of fandom in general, and they demonize hipster blogs that are guilty of only being pretentious and minding their own business. Hipster bloggers don't get in snarling catfights with people. I follow somebody of mixed race who's a Sherlock fan and doesn't ship JohnLock. Anonymous posters have called her homophobic and a negroid. All over her preferring to ship Sherlock with Lestrade.
The Superwholock fandom spawned something called the
Omegaverse, a bizarre Mpreg AU that started out in the Supernatural fandom involving "alphas," "betas" and "omegas." Basically, alphas are humans with knotted dicks like wolves and "omegas" have self-lubricating buttholes that can be impregnated. I had a follower who was so enraged at me after I called the Omegaverse "stupid" that she called me a kink-shamer and threatened to kill herself.
I have seen sexy prolapse art of the Winchester twins. I have seen furious responses to purposeful misspellings of Cumberbatch's name and screaming fits over comparing him to an alien or a lizard. And the Doctor Who fandom, obsessive as it is, seems to be perpetually miserable over the existence of Stephen Moffat. I have seen
Andrew Blake, one of the shiftiest con-men on the internet, stake out the Supernatural fandom as his next crop of potential victims.
I have pretty much refused to watch any of these shows because I want nothing in common with these grossly-entitled brats. I've been involved in fandoms with plenty of drama and weird shit before but for the most part, they're still fun. And that's what they should be: they should be
fun. Once you're not having fun anymore, it's time to move on.
I don't know if anybody in the Superwholock fandom is having fun. The only fun I have with them is the occasional schadenfreude.
