Fandom Is...

[meridian_rose]

Fandom is…I saw and reblogged this on Tumblr; it's actually from this LJ post. Here's a few snippets:

Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption…Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact…Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom…Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting…Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.
Fandom is where you found yourself.

I highly recommend reading the entire thing :D

Comments

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

Absolutely AWESOME entry!

[meridian_rose]

It's a lovely sentiment. Fandom has given me such great friends :D

[hrhrionastar]

How true - even if, what with being sick and all, I haven't been in a very fandom-y place lately.

Fandom certainly means a lot to me - more, I think, than most people I know in RL really get. So it's nice to be able to share that with my friends 'in the box' :D

[meridian_rose]

I'm feeling a bit 'plurk' lately; lots of people whining about how fandom isn't doing what they think it ought to be doing, especially with regards to fanfic. I haven't had the energy to write up a rant about it yet - and worry somewhat about upsetting all the people doing the complaining if I do.

I'm starting to feel I haven't written anything fannish since Cara Mason: Attorney, besides our collaborative stuff, and while the original fic thing is great, I miss fanfic - the wider audience, the telling of a whole story rather than just fragments, the sense of belonging.

I keep telling myself this is cyclical, and that my impressions are being coloured by the negativity I keep encountering, and that things are quiet because it's - mostly/alledgedly, in the Northern Hemisphere - summer and people are off doing summery things. I've almost got myself convinced...

[dizzyknee.livejournal.com]

I love that, and it's all so true. People outside of the fandom world don't understand it and how it could be so important, but it really is all of those things. And I love how fandom is a universal language too.

[meridian_rose]

Oh, yes, fandom can provide universality through its jargon, tropes, and stock examples :D