compare. contrast. sift away the thoughts & see what we find. what was hiding in our subconcious
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... )
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... )
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).
The whole singularly/doubly fictional thing is totally true, but I kinda think its over simplifying. Because what the author creates is the purest state of being for a character. If someone then reads/watches that, they'll put their own interpretation on the character. It doesn't matter if they write it down or not, their reading is still different to what the author created. So one could say, I suppose, that even in simply experiencing the canon the audience is making the character doubly fictional (kinda like with RPF. When you watch the band/actors interacting, you're not seeing the person, you're seeing a facet of the person, which makes what you see singularly fictional)
And then what if someone writes a fic about a fandom (specific rather than general)? To what power is that fictional? *doesn't think about it as my brain is already aching*
In semi-related news, I caught up mistful's Drop Dead Gorgeous yesterday and why did I not do it sooner??? IT IS SO AWESOME! Anyway.
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