Awesome episode! The Joss convo was great – it’s such a sucky situation. I loved Joss’s work but never held him on that high a pedestal, so I don’t feel very personally affected, but it really reverberated with what happened in my previous fandom which was a segment of sports RPF, where I became a huge fan of the team and a huge shipper and then a rape allegation came out against one of the dudes and you can imagine how fun that was :/ :/ :/ The Joss stuff definitely isn’t as bad but I feel your dread, and hope nothing ever comes of it. Ultimately though in this case, I find it pretty easy to separate the creator from the art and the significant place it holds in one’s life, no matter what happens. In any case, the most helpful thing in dealing is just having conversations about it, like the one you just had and invited others to join, so yay.

Also this podcast legit sounds like Diana Prince is talking about fandom it’s kind of amazing 🙂

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