Honestly, if we pushed so hard to make Fandomena a known term, why is it not just as easy to make it clear that fandom-based entities are not fandom personifications themselves, but just canonical entities from each fandom?
Because I
tried that and it
DIDN'T FUCKING WORK.
I made it
very clear -- not only in the OP but also every other time I brought it up -- that that's exactly what fandom-based entities were. But people still didn't get it. I ran into several instances of members clearly not understanding it, which is why I implemented "the test", and therefore learned that people's misunderstandings were
far worse than I had anticipated...
And my attempts to make that distinction only highlighted how
stupid the term was because I realized just how
difficult it was to verbalize, and how it was
so easy to get "fandom entities" and "fandom-
based entities" mixed up that I really couldn't blame anyone.
I shouldn't have to try
this hard to drill that distinction into people. I shouldn't have to run around like a chicken without its head just to make people take some dumb test and talk down to them like four-year-olds to tell them why they can't understand what I'm saying and then hunt them down just to make sure they reply to my post saying "Yes, I understand" because if I
don't then there's the chance that I'll
think that they understood me but they really didn't and they'll just continue to make more mistakes down the line because I didn't realize just how
confused everyone was and I wasn't
thorough enough about it.
And when avoiding confusion is
that fucking difficult, it implies that I, the GM, have failed at conveying my information well. And, again, in attempting to explain "no no, you're thinking of
fandoms, which I sometimes call "fandom entities" even though that's
confusing as all fucking hell, they're totally different from "fandom
-based entities", and I know that the distinction is really difficult to remember but I need you to
tryyyy for sake of my sanity
please" -- I realized that the terminology was stupid and making people confused and therefore stressing me out. That's why I changed it.
I'm sorry you don't like the pedantics of it. I understand what you're saying, but, you know what? I think it's a relatively small issue. Even if you don't think that the term "fandomena" makes a ton of sense, you still understand what it's
supposed to mean. Which is still way more than I can say for "FBE", where people were so far off-the-mark about such a
fundamental aspect of how this world works, which was just so hard to fix and get everyone on the same page.
Therefore making me feel like I was being way too strict... even though it was the fact that I
wasn't strict up until that point that was causing problems because I saw that people didn't seem to quite understand things but I didn't bother to correct every tiny detail because I didn't want to stress about it... but then I realized that I
had to say something because the tiny little lump that I didn't want to acknowledge turned out to be a tumor and then that tumor turned into full-blown cancer and cancer is
very hard to fix and now I'm putting my RP through chemo and it's not pleasant for anybody and it's probably the reason why I feel sick and my hair's falling out but it's
my own damn fault for not checking up on those lumps in the first place.
*sigh* So... I'm sorry for snapping... But, please, believe me, using the term "fandomena" should theoretically be saving me
loads of stress... If I never tried to use the term "fandom-based entity" in the first place, then everything would be even
easier... and that's why I'm trying to lay that term to rest as quickly and painlessly as possible so that we can move on to something that's a lot easier to distinguish from straight-up fandoms and get everyone on the same page. That's why I put a new tab on the OP so that this information is very easy to access and not at all buried so people are more likely to read and understand it.
And that is
especially why I don't want to have both terms in use at the same time, because then I worry that people will start to think that they are
different things, which is just a whole new
layer of confusion that I
really don't want to deal with...
I'm sorry. I probably sound like a stubborn GM who's refusing to listen to criticism.
But like.
Please.
I need you to understand where I'm coming from...
