User:BlueFlareTZK

Hope. Hope is what drives us to live, day in, and day out. Hope that things will change, hope that something cool will happen, hope you'll one day achieve what you've always wanted. Hope is vital to being human. In fandom, your hope is a commodity, one that is sought after by everyone. Fandom will fill you with hope, it will drown you in hope, and steal it all away from you time after time. What distinguishes "fans" from people who just happen to be there, in my book, is that when a person gives their hope to a series, and that series drags their precious hope through the mud, throws it into a pot of scalding water, leaves it out to dry only for it to disintegrate and get swept up by the holy shit that's a tornado oh my god how did that get here and now your precious hope has been struck by lighting three times and each individual piece fell into the gaping mouth of a volcano only for it to erupt and shoot all of your hope into space where it freezes and floats for all of eternity, the person who's along for the ride probably walked away after the mud, and the fan will sit there, begging for more, despite the fact that "more" is just the dead ripped up remains of their hope getting eaten by a giant space whale that is hunted for food and ground up into a thin paste only for that paste to be burned as jet fuel because it turns out the space whale was inedible.

My point: hope is easily exploited in fandom, and I hope far too much, even more than most, but as a "fan", I refuse to stop hoping, space whale, or not.