On fandom, contingent narratives and reinterpretation
This is a contribution to the March Month of Meta. I originally started writing this when Supernatural 4.18 aired (The Monster at the End of This Book, the episode where Sam and Dean discover the Supernatural book series in-canon) but it is by no means SPN-specific. Recently (so nearly three years after I wrote the first draft of the thoughts below
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we retell, reimagine, recapitulate the characters, plot points, settings and tropes in countless ways, and do it *over and over*. Fanfiction gets much of its power by this process, and I think it’s one reason why that it can’t be explained completely to those who haven’t been through the collective experience of experiencing and re-experiencing a fandom. It is an emotional process, a process that has to do with wanting
That isn't something I had considered before about fanfiction, but now that you've pointed it out, it seems very obvious!
if everything becomes transmedia, there is no final narrative. If so, there’s increased emphasis on interpretation, and we know that interpretations vary widely - do we create a group consensus about ‘canon’ for everything, not just in fandom?I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by this - do you mean that there isn't/can't be a "true" canon for something, only a majority opinion of what the canon is? I'm not sure I agree with that, if that is what you ( ... )
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