Spates of jargon

[antennapedia]

I have no joke here. I just like saying "spate". Spate spate spate.

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[littleotter73]

I agree that separating the media categories is a bit superfluous, But how do you differentiate something like the book Les Miserables from the musical Les Miserables to the 1998 and the 2012 movie versions? I suppose all the characters are portrayed with vary little deviation, so that's a perhaps not the "right" example. Perhaps we should go with Sherlock Holmes as an example. There is the original character in the books and then are several TV and movie versions (minus Elementary, because obviously that has its own title independent of the word Sherlock and or Holmes). But is Holmes the same Holmes in each version? No. In the 3 universes I am thinking of off the top of my head, the actors all portray the titular character differently, as to the actors playing Watson. The Robert Downey, Jr movies have different titles, but are the same character, but you don't want to pick one or the other fandom title(?)/header(?) to attach to that fandom, you want one for that universe. You could categorize the Jeremy Brett Version as (Granada) or some such. Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes fandom could be categorized as BBC Sherlock or just Sherlock as the title implies. Obviously the book will retain the title Sherlock Holmes. So the question is, is the media category necessary? Probably not, but the fandom needs to titled properly and easily found by author.

Just things to ponder...

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[antennapedia]

For most fandoms, there's no point separating the book-canon fic from the movie-canon fic. If you're writing for "Howl's Moving Castle", say, you're in a small enough fandom that you don't want any separation. If it matters to a specific fic, tags are the way to go.

For larger more fragmented canons, the solution is naming, which fandom already does. And I would just run with how fandom disambiguates the variations. (Heh, I got to say "disambiguate".) For the Holmes example:

Sherlock Holmes (original)
Sherlock Holmes (RDJ)
Sherlock (BBC 2011)
Elementary

Or perhaps there's an umbrella fandom "Sherlock Holmes" and all this stuff is underneath? But I don't think that reflects how most fans interact with it. The fans of Elementary are more likely to fire air rifles at the wax busts of fans of Sherlock than engage in a happy discussion of how fortunate we are to have three awesome Holmes adaptations in progress at once. Kids these days. Get off my lawn.

Whereas, with Doctor Who, I'd just ditch the concept of separate fandoms and lump them all into one happy 50-year canon with tags to help people who are fans of the audio adventures to find fic about those specifically.

[littleotter73]

Yeah, that's sort of where I was heading. The fandoms need to be properly defined. God forbid the streams cross! I can't even begin to fathom the flame wars between Sherlock and Elementary And yay for disambiguate! :)

With Doctor Who, it's a matter of defining the Doctor really and you can do that by character: Six, Three, Nine, Eleven, etc. No need to have Doctor Who (Classic) and Doctor Who, or whatever. Agreed! :)