Thanks for reading! I am unfortunately prone to using a lot of words, because whenever I use few words, I never seem to get my meaning across.
I think with any fandom, different people experience different types of pressure to conform -- for example, I would say there are sub-sections of fandom where the pressures are directly related to the "guiding policies" within that sub-section (i.e. members of fandom_wank may feel pressured to act aloof and disinterested even when they care about a particular topic that comes up in a wank report, because the whole premise of f_w is that it's uncool to get worked up about fandom shit). My main area of fandom involvement is fiction, and the particular pressure that I feel affects the fanwriter corner is the idea that we're a group of writers rather than fans, and thus we are expected to care about things that writers traditionally care about (such as recognition) usually at the expense of fannish concerns (such as canon adherence, among other things). For consumers of fic, there is constant pressure to idolise writers, and this is hugely compounded by the "we're writers first, fans second" mindset.
I think with any fandom, different people experience different types of pressure to conform -- for example, I would say there are sub-sections of fandom where the pressures are directly related to the "guiding policies" within that sub-section (i.e. members of fandom_wank may feel pressured to act aloof and disinterested even when they care about a particular topic that comes up in a wank report, because the whole premise of f_w is that it's uncool to get worked up about fandom shit). My main area of fandom involvement is fiction, and the particular pressure that I feel affects the fanwriter corner is the idea that we're a group of writers rather than fans, and thus we are expected to care about things that writers traditionally care about (such as recognition) usually at the expense of fannish concerns (such as canon adherence, among other things). For consumers of fic, there is constant pressure to idolise writers, and this is hugely compounded by the "we're writers first, fans second" mindset.
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