Shared interests (PVP mode)

Something that's been kinda on my mind a lot is how funny feelings get for me when finding out someone has a shared interest of mine. Maybe it's a little hyocritical of me for feeling this way, but most times if the other person is way more enthusiastic than I am about something I have tremendous intrrest in, it makes me feel awful.

Like an example is that if I have extremely high fascination with something and someone I know is getting into the thing or looking into it for the first time, I tend to just kind of sprinkle tidbits or some such to hopefully keep them hooked. But I've often run into the issue where someone comes barging in, a fanatic, a friend of a friend, etc. who starts talking like they're an all-knowing messiah of information for this shared interest. And they'll be incessantly talking about it. Whenever I do have room to breathe and say something, it's almost always rudely coubtered with some overcorrected info that I just happened to be mistaken about, usually in a way that makes it sound like I'm intentionally perpetuating misinformation.

It sucks. It sucks that these things I love very dearly and deeply attract some people who, maybe intentionally or not, act like they're the "bigger" or "better" fan. It's... often worse when they're also better friends with the person you're eager to try helping explore said interest too. Maybe that's why I get a little too excited about Junko and Super Junkoid, because as of yet I don't have any reason to believe that there's anyone with as deep of knowledge about them in general than I do outside of P Yoshi herself. It's... one of the few things I can claim are really my realm of expertise for real.

Now granted this isn't every time, and I'll admit when I'm wrong about stuff as long as someone's not being snarky about it. But those... "die-hards" I keep running into just... kinda plague me so much. I wish it were easier to display my adoration for certain things.

I wish I was known as the [insterest] girl, just as much as those other people...