I think I have a problem

surreality51:

The 7 phases of being in fandom:

1. Unintelligible delight at discovering something AWESOME

2. Voracious hunger to devour all of canon. Mainlining episodes like an addict.

3. Confusion/despair when you run out of canon. Search for derivative work begins (adaptations, OSTs, behind the scenes promo vids, anything I’ll take anything just GIVE IT TO ME)

4. Addiction continues to grow, now moving on to shameless thirsting after the actors and diving into Tumblr tags. Religiously follow all of the fandom creators and meta commentators in hopes of getting more hits of this life-ruining drug.

5. Devour anything and everything even vaguely related, in the hopes that this thing will mercifully burn itself out in a short period of time and you can get your life back again.

6. You hit the deep stage. Even daily updates aren’t enough, you’ve read all the fics, you’ve watched all the fanvids a thousand times, and STILL you keep hitting that Tumblr refresh button waiting for more content. MORE, THE ADDICTION DEMANDS MORE. You are totally screwed.

7. Resignation/horror at the realization that fandom can’t keep up with the intensity of your addiction and you may have to create the content yourself. If only you could shake the fandom tree to make more fics/gifs/art tailored to your specific tastes fall out.

There is no step 8 because there’s no coming back after step 7. You are well and truly fucked.