Thread:Per Ankh/@comment-30644608-20170227194120/@comment-1674153-20170228030632

I'm afraid I wasn't clear with why I have contention with (some) fandom artifacts.

I know that current things greatly impact culture. That is what creates an artifact, after all - a culmination of a current moment preserved in an object. Artifacts are theoretically being made every day in some capacity with the amount of emotions and events and people around the world. I can respect modern artifacts. I think that not all of them could stand to not be immeadiately collected, as any of the modern artifacts you brought up would suggest, with the possible suggestion of the birdcage.

Dona Fausta's Brooch IS a canon fan-made artifact, but it succeeds where I think most attempts at fandom artifacts fail - it doesn't try to function as if it popped from the show's reality into our own. Quite the opposite. It sucks the user into the reality of the show. Most fandom artifacts, especially the Convention Aisle, because that is the rule of the aisle as you can see from the top of the page, feel as if they were torn from the show's reality, imbued with fan's desires for them to be really functional. And that would be fine, but the concept is used so often that I just can't find it too creative anymore. And downsides are usually the personal faults of the characters who wield the objects. Again, that's not bad, but it's really overused.

I'm not trying to ding anyone's creativity or to suggest that I know better, but from a story telling standpoint, I just get so bored with seeing the same tropes in the convention aisle. Dona Fausta's Brooch was born from Kelly's grandmother's desire to escape her life - that's interesting to me. A singular person having a singular wish to escape, and an entertainment source being the means of that escape for the artifact, is so much more compelling for me than an entire fandom really liking a cartoon and an artifact just born from the Tulpa effect. Which is why I really like the TV, Film, and Theatre section. The artifacts embody rather than directly copy from the source material, and allow for nuance. Dona Fausta's Brooch is fandom in the sense of being a part of a source of entertainment, but it's not a fandom artifact like the Convention Aisle touts, which is where my contention lies.

I don't dislike fandom artifacts. I dislike how the Tulpa effect has allowed contributions in the Convention Aisle to be so monochrome. There are no examples of those kinds of fandom artifacts in the show.