So, I've been thinking about creativity on the internet.

I really am very frequently more than amazed at what people in fandom can do. With art, with graphics, with video editing, with writing, with music, with keeping up a more or less smoothly running organization like fandom without everything falling apart.

The creativity I see here on the internet every day is baffling. The ideas some people come up with! In online fandom, there really are no limits to your creativity. No matter what you do, at some point somebody already did something more rebellious than that, so there's a lot less forced rebellion in online art as there is in other art. On the other hand, there are no restrictions. Somewhere, you will find an audience for anything, so you can really do whatever your creativity inspires you to do.

I think that's amazing. It's inspiring. It's addictive. And it makes every day life and every day interaction with people who are more or less strangers - people at uni, the work place, wherever - seem so much more dull and uninteresting, because there are all those social taboos and rules restricting your potential. Showing a RL friend some of your art work requires a relatively high level of familiarity. On the internet, you post your art to communities for hundreds, sometimes thousands of people to see it.

I love this. I really, really love this. My life would be so much less interesting without fandom. And it makes me really angry and disappointed at the so-called 'normal' people when they go and dismiss people in fandom as 'daydreamers' and 'wasting their lives' and 'being loners and losers'. It's hard not to react in return by dismissing them as close-minded, two-dimensional beings whose only desire in life seems to be to fulfill the demands a corrupt, brutal and hypocritical society poses.

It's just as wrong as what they are doing. But sometimes, I just can't help it.