I just got an email telling me I now have tickets to see HBP at Azkatraz! HOORAY! I really didn't think that would happen at all. I guess the change in time has made it less popular
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Your fandom question is really interesting to me since I am going through that right now. I have always said I'm a very fannish person. It is difficult for me to watch things casually. I tend to mainline whole seasons of TV in one go, but despite my obsessive fannish nature, I haven't felt the pull towards really participating in other fandoms the way I do with HP and H/D. Occasionally I will read the TWoP forums for a show I love, but I won't post. I won't read fic, really. I just haven't felt the need. HP wasn't my first fandom, per se, but it was the first and pretty much only fandom where I sought out fanfic/art. I've only had one other REAL fandom in my life, which was Alias when I was younger (14-17). I would compulsively read and participate at forums and I ran a graphics contest community for a period of time. Then it jumped the shark and I kind of stopped caring.
I wonder if part of my love for HP is that it never jumped the shark (even the Epilogue wasn't enough to kill my enjoyment of the series) and that it actually got more complex and dark as JK grew as an author and I grew up. I mean, I was with the series from the beginning, before it got big. I grew up with it. I just...I really do believe that it will always have a place in my heart. And I think the reason that I seek out fanfic so much for HP is that they are coming of age novels, but JKR kind of epically fails on the romantic front and almost completely ignores the sexual aspect. And so there is a big gap to fill. I guess I just haven't come across another fandom that has gripped me like HP and has also had a decent enough gap in the canon that fanon has to fill.
I will now stop rambling. I have no idea if that made any sense to anyone other than me, but there you go.
I wonder if part of my love for HP is that it never jumped the shark (even the Epilogue wasn't enough to kill my enjoyment of the series) and that it actually got more complex and dark as JK grew as an author and I grew up. I mean, I was with the series from the beginning, before it got big. I grew up with it. I just...I really do believe that it will always have a place in my heart. And I think the reason that I seek out fanfic so much for HP is that they are coming of age novels, but JKR kind of epically fails on the romantic front and almost completely ignores the sexual aspect. And so there is a big gap to fill. I guess I just haven't come across another fandom that has gripped me like HP and has also had a decent enough gap in the canon that fanon has to fill.
I will now stop rambling. I have no idea if that made any sense to anyone other than me, but there you go.
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Totally made sense to me. ;)
*catching up on old LJ entries* ;D
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