Emblanoning

Anon memes are a good place for trolls and sockpuppets.  And I guess you can say, even at their best, that anon memes kind of debase the conversation because you're not engaging in dialogue with your friends, or even your 'Net friends-- you don't know who it is you're agreeing with, or debating with.  Are they real?  Are they sincere?  Is it your voice interacting with the echoes of a sockpuppet army?

emblanon  is turning out to be pretty good, though... and some of us are rather obvious "anons."

And for the people who feel they're at the edges of fandom, or excluded from it, a forum like it probably feels really good.  Ike/Soren fans may feel they're bashed a lot, but seeing that Merric/Elice fan speak up was... interesting.  All the more so in that they voiced a defense of FE3!Marth.  When a fandom is as tiny as LJ Archanea fandom, making people feel unwelcome for preferring a canon pairing over the fan-favorite thing is probably a bad idea.

And the people who expressed the idea that fe_contest is some elite circle that would be impossible to break into... well, I was afraid of that.  But the only way to counteract that impression is for newbies to join and write and get feedback.  Otherwise, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Then there's that OTHER part of the emblanon  community...

Marth/Nagi is the worst and least sexy Lord/DragonChick pairing in Fire Emblem history.  She's amnesiac, possibly undead, very likely the reincarnation of Tiki's father, and might not even have a pulse.  And given that she vanishes, she might not even be 100% corporeal.  And he's... Marth.

I'm so not seeing it.