Elise Matthesen

People hate seeing what was once rare and precious become the norm and lose its rare and precious status. We can no longer point at something ("this is fandom!" for instance) and essentially mean the same thing if we're defining it as a static experience. Also, it is sort of a dream come true to have our beloved speculative fiction become widespread and the love of it equally widespread, but the dream (like all dreams) has found its own internal logic and that can be disorienting and upsetting.