See, I'm not sure if I would want to be involved in bigger fandoms. I mean really I feel I still sit slightly on the fringe in this fandom, despite my partcipation I still don't feel I have been fully brought into the fold so to speak (of course this is the story of my life because I'm distant and blah blah).
And do get frustrated by the behavior of some of the young, young members because that's one of the places where these generalizations of a whole is born.
It's interesting because a part of me wishes I hadn't gotten so involved in the fandom because whether your looking for shippiness or anti-shippiness it does take some of the fun out of watching, because I find myself forcing myself not to look for them because that's not where I want my focus to be when it comes to the actual text. I guess I try to compartmentalize my fannishness/shippiness because if shippiness is the direct topic them I'll talk about it in that regard, but if it's not then I want to look at it just for what it is. Does that make sense?
Also I completely agree with what say as fanfiction being a "fringe hobby" and there is a feeling of belonging that comes with it. So I guess it does make sense that cliques would form. I guess what I find interesting is how common human behavior in real life is transfered into this virtual world where in many times you don't have real names or real faces to the people you are partcipating with all you have is words on a screen, which is not nessicarily a full representation of a person, but things still ultimately form in the way they would in RL.
Sorry I'm rambling again. Maybe I should be a cultrual anthropogist or something...hehe
And do get frustrated by the behavior of some of the young, young members because that's one of the places where these generalizations of a whole is born.
It's interesting because a part of me wishes I hadn't gotten so involved in the fandom because whether your looking for shippiness or anti-shippiness it does take some of the fun out of watching, because I find myself forcing myself not to look for them because that's not where I want my focus to be when it comes to the actual text. I guess I try to compartmentalize my fannishness/shippiness because if shippiness is the direct topic them I'll talk about it in that regard, but if it's not then I want to look at it just for what it is. Does that make sense?
Also I completely agree with what say as fanfiction being a "fringe hobby" and there is a feeling of belonging that comes with it. So I guess it does make sense that cliques would form. I guess what I find interesting is how common human behavior in real life is transfered into this virtual world where in many times you don't have real names or real faces to the people you are partcipating with all you have is words on a screen, which is not nessicarily a full representation of a person, but things still ultimately form in the way they would in RL.
Sorry I'm rambling again. Maybe I should be a cultrual anthropogist or something...hehe
It's all very interesting...
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