Club Jade

As we can expect yet another round of fandom upheaval and craziness and nigh-inevitable finger pointing, I’m finally bringing this post to Tumblr…

The greatest people you will ever meet, and the worst: A call for civility in Star Wars fandom

Star Wars is a gigantic franchise, with many different facets. You don’t have to love every single piece of it to be a fan, and I think it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to do that. (More power to you if you can, but it doesn’t necessarily work that way for all of us.) If you love something about Star Wars, you are a fan. Star Wars is just too big and too varied and not everyone is going to love everything. You might even despise parts of it. Hey, it happens. What’s really important is how you express it, and how you treat others.

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This post is probably one of the things I’m most proud of writing in my whole fandom/blogging career. (Can I call it a career?!?)  I can honestly say that I don’t believe there’s any wrong way to be a fan, except by being an ass about it. I can’t claim to be a saint myself, and I have a real lack of patience for dealing with the assholes, but I do honestly believe everything I wrote in this. Let’s start out this Episode 7 thing by trying to be better people, not better fans.