Comments | doomette: compare. contrast. sift away the thoughts & see what we find. what was hiding in our subconcious

doomette

compare. contrast. sift away the thoughts & see what we find. what was hiding in our subconcious

Jul 20, 2008 22:19

I've been having these thoughts -- and no, I'm not going to tell you that I'm gay -- about fandom. (And now you scroll down, because really Megan, shut the hell up already)

The thing is, I think about fandom a lot. And when I do, I'm either thinking of a specific fandom (sga, spn, bandom, hp, whatever), or fandom as a whole. Except...I don't see ( Read more... )

meta, you guys rock, fandom

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janetmaca July 20 2008, 15:37:08 UTC

Whoa.

doomette July 20 2008, 15:40:10 UTC

XD My thoughts, let me show you them. They are long and probably don't make sense.

janetmaca July 20 2008, 15:45:29 UTC

No, no, they do make sense it's just I've never seen people think that way before.

doomette July 20 2008, 15:47:49 UTC

:D!

...or D:?

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insane_duckfish July 21 2008, 00:16:23 UTC

Hmm you make interesting points. I love your meta (except that it makes me want to write my own meta *sigh*)

I agree with what you say about fandom being about safety in numbers, and the thing is, it works. Not just because people think "Oh well, fandom's big and can eat us, we'd better not do that" but because fandom is big and will eat you if you piss of even a corner of it. I wasn't directly affected by any of the Lj screw-ups and I still got righteously outraged. Maybe its the philosophy "It's them now, but it could be me next" Plus fandom has a surprisingly prevelant live and let live idealogy - people may disagree with your genre/pairing/kink but so long as you stay over there and I stay over here then its ok. I know flame wars would suggest otherwise but those are pretty much constrained to conflicting pairings (john/rodney vs john/ronon or something ( ... )