PhormTheGenie

Vixen. Genie. Vixdjinn!

Hi! I'm Phorm, and I'm a Vixdjinn!

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I'm a genie girl, who really likes being a genie, and really likes everything about genies (really)! I'm a bit confused, lost, and trying to find my way, but I always enjoy interacting with folks here. (Trans🏳️‍⚧️, occasionally NSFW, Be 18+ or please be gone.)

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in reply to @PhormTheGenie's post:

"...A thing that consumes and makes noise, but gives nothing back, and makes nothing new."

There's the insidious capitalist bookkeeper inculcated in us all rearing its ugly little head. Reject the idea that anyone but the ultra-rich exist in this system as a parasite, that presence in a fandom demands transactionality ; it is anti-human, and only hurts a person who is by all measures kind and welcoming and fun.

As much as it's disgusting and wrong to think of fandom as being transactional (and I acknowledge that this is a gross underpinning of capitalism), I nevertheless can't escape the idea that community nevertheless requires contribution. And in this regard I neither enrich, nor belong.

I think it's important for people to be engaged in a community as much as they feel they are able... something something according to their needs, after all!
Presence, alone, can be a contribution. It's something I'm slowly learning to accommodate into my own self-perception in spaces I don't feel like I contribute to, either; I wrangle with this a lot myself.

You make more of an impact than you think you do.

Yea ill mirror what selina said. It's just enough to be around. What alot of folks tend to forget is that an incredibly small percentage of any community actually contributes in any way, even if we extend that definition to folks that talk on forums.

Lurkers are the majority, but just being around is good because you give life to a community that way. Commenting on art, fics, music. Having discussions about shared interests are important to giving a community a vibe thats welcoming and ensures all the participants want to come back.

Whether or not you know it. Someone has said "i love being a part of the (insert here) community" and you being around is the reason why.

I can appreciate that, I really can. At least mentally - theoretically. But when I really think deeply about it, I can't imagine that I do anything other than take and make things awkward. I exist in the margins of community, with no place of my own, and when I try to emerge it only makes people feel extremely uncomfortable because "Who the fuck is this? What is she doing here? What has she even done?"

I swear to gods some day imma make a universally fractal omni-newspaper just to bap your silly genie head.
You've brightened my day numerous times with your writing, you've been an inspiration for lots of artists. You do not get to say that you contribute nothing.