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neifile , Five fandoms that you think changed what fandom can do (in writing, meta, art, whatever).
1. Sherlock Holmes
I have a book called The Game is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes. I also have a copy of The Seven-Percent Solution in which Sherlock Holmes is treated by Sigmund Freud. Holmes is the first great fandom -- the one that spawned fan fiction before there was such a thing, and the one of the first to spawn a campaign to revive a character the author wanted to kill.
2. Star Trek: The Old Series
Star Trek fan fiction gave us both Kirk/Spock slash and the Mary Sue. Without them fandom would not be the same.
3. The Lord of the Rings
Without The Lord of the Rings we wouldn't have the modern genre of fantasy fiction. So many fantasy writers started out writing thinly veiled LOTR ripoffs. Many remained hacks, but the best took the genre new places.
4. Anime/manga
Anime/manga fandom brought a significant cross-cultural element to fandom as fans taught themselves another language in order to spread the love. They also brought the awareness of copyright and intellectual property law to a whole new population.
5. Star Wars
Why does it matter that Han shot first? It matters because at that point the fans asserted a moral ownership over the text in opposition to the author.
neifile , Five fandoms that you think changed what fandom can do (in writing, meta, art, whatever).
1. Sherlock Holmes
I have a book called The Game is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes. I also have a copy of The Seven-Percent Solution in which Sherlock Holmes is treated by Sigmund Freud. Holmes is the first great fandom -- the one that spawned fan fiction before there was such a thing, and the one of the first to spawn a campaign to revive a character the author wanted to kill.
2. Star Trek: The Old Series
Star Trek fan fiction gave us both Kirk/Spock slash and the Mary Sue. Without them fandom would not be the same.
3. The Lord of the Rings
Without The Lord of the Rings we wouldn't have the modern genre of fantasy fiction. So many fantasy writers started out writing thinly veiled LOTR ripoffs. Many remained hacks, but the best took the genre new places.
4. Anime/manga
Anime/manga fandom brought a significant cross-cultural element to fandom as fans taught themselves another language in order to spread the love. They also brought the awareness of copyright and intellectual property law to a whole new population.
5. Star Wars
Why does it matter that Han shot first? It matters because at that point the fans asserted a moral ownership over the text in opposition to the author.