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[teaonthestairs]

I had a whole entry about leaving fandom - not me! I've got my lifetime membership and I'm never letting it go - but about how I didn't understand how people can just leave - I'm not talking those of us who just grow up and away from it, who have rl issues and need a break or whatever, but rather those who get in a fight or get offended and just go, delete their journal, blog, fanfiction - how can they let go? Do they regret it? I would be having serious separation issues - fanfication cravings, feeling faint from lack of pretty, going out of my mind having to keep ALL the fangirling inside - because, for me, fandom isn't about me making things (okay, sometimes I might get a little crazy and make icons) - because I'm a taker not a giver, but it's ALL about the talking - about sharing links and squee!ing over pretty and reading fanfic and leaving adjective filled notes and gushing about episodes and nodding seriously over episode reviews and shrieking with laughter of the sheer awesomeness of my more giving friends.

Fandom is so entwined in my life  I can't separate the two - I'm a fangirl, it's what I am, it's what I do. My emails, my phone conversations, my instant messaging, my messages, my computer time, dinner conversation, rl conversation - it's all ties in together, I nreathe my fandoms, my friends are fangirls - my FAMILY are fangirls/boys. 

So HOW do you just leave fandom?

I had a whole thing about comparing leaving fandom to leaving high school (because I am THAT original) and the differences between Leaving fandom (deleting journal, unsubscribing to newsletters and fannish alerts, clearing out your bookmarks and reorganizing your hard drive) and leaving fandom (basically - you're a lurker) 

It was awesome....   

...but it got all beleated so gah! stupid lj. 

Comments

[gothatheartholo.livejournal.com]

Random lurker here who found this entry through metafandom,

I tried leaving a lot of times-- for almost a year, and I couldn't seem to leave, because I'm addicted to fandom...

So I wouldn't mind knowing how does one leave said fandom.

-Holo

[rosiew.livejournal.com]

I sometimes get bored of fandom - well online fandom, which makes me back off - though I never last longer then a week. Disscussion above leaves me to assume you never really do, unless your not very in in the first place!