Getting all the salt out: robot edition
Sunday, 1 March 2020 14:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yvannairieOhhhhhh I finally figured out why the IDW TF fandom specifically comes across so obnoxious and self-involved that it's put me off reading the comics simply because I don't want to hang out with any of them.
It's the treatment of IDW canon as the only canon that truly matters, or acting like the canon potpourri applies less to IDW than it does to other continuities.
And because they have this attitude, almost all of them act like tagging something just as "Transformers" is sufficient, because if it applies to IDW, it must be somehow universal, right? Like, IDW isn't a "reinterpretation" like those other continuities, it is "the canon" now instead of G1 and it's the one that we should all refer to, right? Nobody would ever need an IDW tag for blacklisting as a whole, only for the individual books because everyone knows what those are, right?
... of course, like, this isn't the actual attitude by anyone in the IDW fandom (or at least I real fucking hope so), but rather it's the sense I get when people consistently treat their continuity as the continuity, and not as something fungible the way the other continuities are, probably because I had some early run-ins with people who told me I was doing it wrong by sticking to Aligned canon, just because the comics had different opinions about that.
It's the treatment of IDW canon as the only canon that truly matters, or acting like the canon potpourri applies less to IDW than it does to other continuities.
And because they have this attitude, almost all of them act like tagging something just as "Transformers" is sufficient, because if it applies to IDW, it must be somehow universal, right? Like, IDW isn't a "reinterpretation" like those other continuities, it is "the canon" now instead of G1 and it's the one that we should all refer to, right? Nobody would ever need an IDW tag for blacklisting as a whole, only for the individual books because everyone knows what those are, right?
... of course, like, this isn't the actual attitude by anyone in the IDW fandom (or at least I real fucking hope so), but rather it's the sense I get when people consistently treat their continuity as the continuity, and not as something fungible the way the other continuities are, probably because I had some early run-ins with people who told me I was doing it wrong by sticking to Aligned canon, just because the comics had different opinions about that.
