Stages of fandom:

1. This is awesome!

2. This is okay.

3. This was awesome, but now it sucks.

4. This has always sucked.

5. Whether this was good or bad is beside the point, because I now realise that I was never a fan of it in the first place; I was a fan of the idea of it, and most of what I found appealing and relatable in it is stuff I extrapolated from the text that was never explicitly present.

6. Welp. I guess it’s all up to me!