This is hilarious.

This is not. Shut up, lady, shut up shut up shut up. Now you are part of the problem. Shut up.

I am reading this ethnography from 1992, and I know that fandom was a lot more insular back then (in the 80s, really, since the ethnographer spent several years getting involved) in that you couldn't just get online and go; but the way all this is couched in lines like "the turning point in my initiation into fan culture" and "Over the next year I ( Read more... )