{"id":10934,"date":"2015-08-11T04:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T04:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/11\/do-you-ever-think-youll-stop-drawing-fanart-no\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T04:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T04:31:26","slug":"do-you-ever-think-youll-stop-drawing-fanart-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/11\/do-you-ever-think-youll-stop-drawing-fanart-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you ever think you’ll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you’re supposed to grow out of. I’m just curious what your plans\/goals are since it isn’t exactly an art form that people take seriously."},"content":{"rendered":"

euclase<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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destielhiseyesopened<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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talesfromthemek<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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linzeestyle<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ah, fanart. Also known as\u00a0the art that girls make.<\/p>\n

Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it\u2019s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it\u2019s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it\u2019s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they\u2019re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the art you mean, right?<\/p>\n

Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s interesting though \u2014 the culture of shame surrounding adult women and fandom. Even within fandom it\u2019s heavily internalized: unsurprisingly, mind, given that fandom is largely comprised by young girls and, unfortunately, our culture runs on ensuring young girls internalize *all* messages no matter how toxic. But here\u2019s another way of thinking about it.<\/p>\n

Sports is a fandom. It requires zealous attention to \u201cseasons,\u201d knowledge of details considered obscure to those not involved in that fandom, unbelievable amounts of merchandise, and even \u201cfanfic\u201d in the form of fantasy teams. But this is a masculine-coded fandom. And as such, it\u2019s encouraged – built into our economy! Have you *seen* Dish network\u2019s \u201cultimate fan\u201d advertisements, which literally base selling of a product around the normalization of all consuming (male) obsession? Or the very existence of sports bars, built around the link between fans and community enjoyment and analysis. Sport fandom is so ingrained in our culture that major events are treated like holidays (my gym closes for the Super Bowl) \u2014 and can you imagine being laughed at for admitting you didn\u2019t know the difference between Supernatural and The X Files the way you might if you admit you don\u2019t know the rules of football vs baseball, or basketball?<\/p>\n

\u201cFandom\u201d is not childish but we live in a culture that commodified women\u2019s time in such away that their hobbies have to be \u201cfrivolous,\u201d because \u201cmature\u201d women\u2019s interests are supposed to be marriage, family, and overall care taking: things that allow others to continue their own special interests, while leaving women without a space of their own.<\/p>\n

So think about what you\u2019re actually saying when you call someone \u201ctoo old\u201d for fandom. Because you\u2019re suggesting they are \u201ctoo old\u201d for a consuming hobby, and I challenge you to answer \u2014 what do you think they should be doing instead?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

#I love the fact I\u2019m \u2018weird\u2019 for writing fic but some guy painting a team logo on his beer belly is normal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here you go, anon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

euclase: destielhiseyesopened: talesfromthemek: linzeestyle: : Ah, fanart. Also known as\u00a0the art that girls make. Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it\u2019s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it\u2019s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it\u2019s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel … Continue reading Do you ever think you’ll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you’re supposed to grow out of. I’m just curious what your plans\/goals are since it isn’t exactly an art form that people take seriously.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,154],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fanart","tag-yes","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}