what's something you're into that you don't want anyone you know irl to know about?

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 190 points –

I really like fanfiction. Reading and writing it. Nobody in my life knows and I plan on keeping it that way.

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Homestuck, Undertale, Hazbin Hotel, and all those popular pieces of media that get overshadowed by their shitty fandoms

I have so much more fun with most things just enjoying it and not engaging with the fan base at ALL.

I knew about Hazbin, but the others are new to me. Thank you for the suggestions!

I feel like homestuck, at least, is hard to disentangle from its fandom just because of the level of outsourcing the author did.

I got into it blind and only learned about the fandom and the surrounding history after finishing it. It felt like reading a parallel story and it was actually pretty fun, but it only cemented my feeling of not wanting to be associated with them. I mean, the bucket. Just wow.

I never got too far into the fandom, and I've never really investigated it. I have no memory or knowledge of the bucket.

But I did enjoy looking at fan art and such whatnot, "trollsonas" and such, at least a bit. I got into the lore about as far as I do any

I recommend watching a youtube recap of the history of the fandom as it really helps contextualize the whole comic, and it is quite fun, as such an excentric comic attracted an equally excentric fanbase. There are plenty of fun and gross anecdotes. As for the bucket, you can watch for yourself, but let me warn you...

::: spoiler "spoiler" It's a bunch of people collectively spitting into a bucket in a restaurant :::

Hazbin's probably a little more mainstream now that the full season released