when fandom goes to far
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Toxic Fanbases ruin things for everyone else
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We like to imagine that our personal opinions concerning what we love are organic and intrinsic to our privately designed scale of quality. Pure, honest and uninfluenced by external things, we judge by what’s meant to be judged and nothing else. Yet, sometimes, when it becomes abundantly clear you are not the only one who feels so strongly about something…
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The future world of Blade Runner 2049 is a disappointing one
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Speaking on what attracted her to write science fiction in the first place, multiple Hugo award winner Octavia Butler relayed it was mainly because she “was able to do anything” and the fact that “there were no walls to hem [her] in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” The…
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