i have no justification to offer for the silliness of this metaphor.

[cimorene]

an lj-based fandom is kind of like an after-school club. it's not just whether you like art, spanish, or french best - it's which clubs are the most fun.

you're not going to join the spanish club if the girl you hate is the president; you're not going to join the art club if you know there's only five girls in it and you only like one of them. and you might join the home ec club because they have really fun cooking parties even if you don't like the home ec teacher at all, whereas you might avoid the biology club like the plague even though it's your favourite class because all they do is sit around helping each other with their homework.

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[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

i love it, though. XD!!! (school clubs! i was in the gay club. and the anime club. woo. shocking, i know! and now i'm still in the gay club! except it's like the Club For People Who Love Bad Gay Porn.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it may not surprise you to learn that in tuscaloosa, alabama, there was neither a gay club nor an anime club, nor in fact, even a science fiction club or english club, not that i'd have joined: i knew the people at my school. i'm really not a joiner, so i was just in the clubs that it was kind of socially expected of me to join, which is to say, honour societies plus spanish. (i was in art honour society - with almost nobody - but not art club, which would've required more interaction with people.)

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

the gay club and the anime club essentially were my group of friends, so it was certainly no hardship for me. XD but i'm also definitely more outgoing than you are, even though highschool was still part of my "occasionally paralyzed with social awkwardness!" phase.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hahahahah. i usually only get paralysed with social awkwardness, like, when i'm in an elevator or trapped and have to suddenly produce smalltalk, you know? usually i'm perfectly satisfied to sit and quietly observe the people around me and that doesn't even feel weird. but i was really not as antisocial then as now; i think i - didn't know any better? sort of like how i didn't know i was gay and didn't know i was depressed! granted i wouldn't've joined a club i wasn't expected to join; it just wouldn't have occurred to me that meeting new people could conceivably be fun (except at science fiction conventions!); but i, you know, pretty much did the things my friends did, whether it was skipping to go to the mall after final exams or singing carols in a nursing home.