The Book Show on ABC Radio National, Australia, had a segment on fan fiction yesterday, 21 July 2008. You can download the audio from this page.

The adulatory, and sometimes legally risky, world of fan fiction, where readers who can't get enough of their favourite books, TV series and movies, create new stories and take the characters to new ( Read more... )

Share something good about the people you've met in fandom. It doesn't matter whether it's a current fandom or one that you were in years ago. Time to celebrate the fun and friendships that we make through fandom!

( Multifandom in Florida rocks! )

From SMH here.

In celebrity land, there will always be the “fanatics”, but when it comes to Harry Potter fans, I’ve never met a more rabid bunch of die-hards in my life ( Read more... )

How long should you respect another person's choice to enjoy a book, film or television series without knowing the major twists in the plot, casting changes, and so on ( Read more... )

Have you joined a fandom after the show has been running for a few years, the author has already written 20 books in the seires, or a long time after the films were made?

Do you feel like an outsider or welcomed into the fun of what is a new fandom to you? Please share!

Poll Latecomers to Fandom

It's strange to be watching this after only seeing the occasional video. Strange in that after it being so long since I'd seen it, my only source for TS was via fanfic. Sometimes good stuff, sometimes utterly dire OOC stuff. Over time the principal characters' outlines blurred to the point where I could no longer say definitively that 'Jim does ( Read more... )

I'm cleaning up old e-mails and links at the moment and I came across this.

With Stars in their sighs by Bernard Zuel is about the lovely Viggo Mortensen (23 Nov 2004 ( Read more... )

Henry Jenkins comments on Stargate cancellation here.

All told, both the tactics and the analysis behind it shows an extremely sophisticated understanding of the current media landscape and the various points by which grassroots communities may leverage their power to exert pressure on corporate stakeholders in the series. Activists of all ilk can ( Read more... )

Article from The Sydney Morning Herald here.

Music giant Universal has threatened an Australian ABBA fan site with legal action unless it hands over the details of fans who allegedly bought or supplied unauthorised or "bootlegged" live recordings via the site ... Until recently, the site also sold bootleg CDs and DVDs containing old recordings of ( Read more... )

Every now and then I'm so irritated by wanktastic crap coming from certain sectors of fandom that I decide that I'll gafiate. Enough of the nitpicking, plagiarism, cliques and cliches, the fandom wars, BNFs, grudges, and sectarian conflicts ( Read more... )