I was confronted by something kind of random today. My co-worker, Matt, drew me into a conversation about Fandom. It was he who brought it up, which simply astounded me. He started the conversation by saying, "Hey, Jen. I think you should write a book about fandom." This is an idea that I've tossled about with for a while, but at the moment I'
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I run a Stargate website. It's a rather snarky piece of work, as I modeled it after some fangrrrrls' sites for a particular Stargate actor. I thought they were terribly over the top, w/o a trace of clue how scary they were.
My site features four older character actors and 'my voice' on the site is a raving fanggrrrl symbiote who is just completely clueless about her obsession being a tad bit wacky. She's wacky, she's clueless and she's crazy about her boy toys. I hope I present it in such a way that anyone that visits my site realizes that it's completely and utterly a parody of Fangrrrrlism. But I have to admit that I've spent too much on it - but in exchange, I've 'met' hundreds of online people because of it. One of the boys even told me that he thinks it's a funny, intelligent site. (Did I fangrrrrl squee on that comment? You bet your David Tennant Calendar I did.)
Fangrrrlism can be fun.
In moderation.
I've been to a couple cons where people have no sense of reality. They talk about Amanda or Mike like they're best friends. When you get to the point where you sobbingly debate canceling a con after spending too much money just because an actor canceled?
I've never baked a cake for an actor. I've never dropped off hershey kisses at his autograph table. Have I bought his/her kids shoes through autographs for me and assorted friends that couldn't make the con? Hell yes.
Have I joined in donating toward an actor's/actress's favorite charity as a fan group project? Yes.
Have I sent an actor a Christmas card? Yes. Mainly because someone on the group told him that the group was sending him Christmas cards and I thought as the group leader I should send him one.
Did one of my fangroups buy the actor his domain name for Christmas? Err.. yes... but that was a long, long story and he's a very special case.
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