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I am of the opinion that one cannot truly love something unless they acknowledge and appreciate its faults as well as its strengths.

I love watching Doctor Who. It's corny as hell, the special effects are cheap, and the plot is, at times, overly predictable. But I love it anyway, and part of what I love is its creativity within confines of budget, technology, etc.

I love drawing furries and illogical fantasy animals. Sure they don't make sense. Sure they could never exist in the real world. But it's fun anyway, and part of what I love is trying to think up preposterous reasons why (insert illogical aesthetic feature here) could be a survival adaptation.

I love Pokemon. I know the show is retarded and most 99% of Pokemon stuff is targeted at little kids. But I still appreciate the idea behind it, and the story involved. Part of what I love about it is taking the sanitized, sugar-coated presentation of the show/games and thinking past that to the rather brutal and crazy premise of the whole thing.

Nyoko and I, we've got this thing. We make fun of tons of stuff. Little satires, jokes, wordplay, etc. But the way to know that we really care about something is if we make fun of it. In fact, the things we joke about most are the things we love most.

Way back in the day, it was Slayers. Then it was Neopets.

Tales of Symphonia.
Tales of the Abyss.
Doctor Who.
Sonic.
Sparkledogs.
Our own art and characters.
And hundreds of other little things.

Very few things are 100% SRS BUSINESS. Especially on the god damn Internet. If you cannot accept ANY SORT OF CRITICISM EVER, and believe that anyone who does not take Subject X 100% seriously is a horrible infidel to be ostracized from everything involving Subject X forever, then maybe YOU need to get off the Internet and grow up.

I mean, really.
REALLY.

Self-reflection is something essential to a healthy person. You have to be able to look at yourself and things around you critically. Sadly, this is something that people don't have from birth. It's something you get as you're growing up. Some people never get it at all, which is a sad case.

And just because you accept that such and such thing isn't 100% perfect doesn't mean you need to hate it or that it's bad. It's that you understand that it's not perfect, but love it anyway. Loving something because you're looking at it through rose-tinted glasses and you think it's perfect is flawed. Loving something because you've seen its faults and still love it anyway is real.

Moreover, faults don't have to be viewed negatively. You can laugh and joke about something's imperfections in a happy light. Joking about the flaws of Subject X does not automatically mean that the person doing so is:
a) a troll
b) a hater
c) a meanie weenie
d) a loser with no life
e) not also a fan of Subject X

All in good fun. Internet fandoms are not serious business. If you take them as such, they you should take a step back.





This is not meant to bash anyone in particular. This is a rant inspired by an overall trend in people both online and IRL.

If anyone's reading this worried that I might be talking about you, I'm not. p: The people who inspired me to actually post what's been on my mind don't watch me, I've never talked to, and will most likely never read this.