Wow guys; just, wow. I got an AMAZING response from fandom in my poll about preference of canon size. As per a few requests and my own musings, here is a followup poll, this time dealing with fandom POPULATION size, or the "base" of people that make up the fandom. Below the poll is the analysis of Poll 1.

Poll Population-wise, Do You Prefer Larger or Smaller Fandoms?

Here are the statistics for Poll 1:

Q1 ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the types of fandoms I'm into lately. My main fandoms as of now consist of Scrubs, Psych, House MD, and The Office, and they're mostly all contrastingly different in terms of how much source material we have to work with ( Read more... )

Tell me what person/couple this song reminds you of.Any fandom, whether I know it or not. Why does it remind you of them? Are there any specific events in that person's/persons' life/lives that this specifically reminds you of ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking lately about what the general ideas and definitions around RPF actually are. I've also been thinking about how I view different types of RPF, and why I do so. This essay is my attempt to properly start a discussion of what the subcategories of RPF are, and to help people figure out why they react to certain RPFs in certain ( Read more... )