I've been a fan for a long time - I exhibited fannish behavior long before I found anything that could be called fandom. (A feral 12yo fan! Raised by wolves mundanes, unfamiliar with the language of her people!) And then I found fandom, and found myself a couple of fandoms, and things moved on from there. So maybe imprinting is the wrong word,
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*cuddles Crystallize*
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as for the rest: i'm fascinated by imporinting, personal and collectively, by the central role of the text and the context. (and your XF was my Buffy...and it seems to be certain fandoms like these two that draw in *huge* crowds...what is special about them...OK, totally stupid question, right? :D)
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I've been thinking about narrow vs wide audience appeal, too, and the advantages of things remaining unspoken, or just unspoken enough. Freedom to choose a wide variety of interpretations seems to go over well, but of course emotional situations that are presented too obliquely don't provide anything for a fan to hook into. hmm.
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i think your second question is *really* crucial. there are some stories i adore but would rarely rec, b/c they're too unspoken, too insider in their references. i think it might go along with the good fic vs good fanfic question. if you write to only an audience of one, your imagery may be suberbly subtle...if noone gets it, you have pleased yourself but noone else...
(is that what you meant???)
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You know, when you're skimming quickly in your cubicle at work, "buttons" can look a lot like "buttocks". Just fyi.
*g*
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Paper Hearts was the ep of TXF that made me a fan. Victoria's Secret was the ep of DS that made me realize there was more to this show than I thought...probably a whole lot more. Passion is the first and only ep of Buffy that makes me cry, still, and it's still my absolute favorite.
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Interestingly about VS, I recently showed Part I to P., and he's already guessed almost everything. Since it took me about three viewings to even understand what was going on, I am mightily impressed with him, but also sad, that he's effectively spoiled himself (though I neither confirmed nor denied).
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Oh, there are certain visuals that will always have more impact for me than words ever will, and I'm not at all a visual person. Especially the almost but not quite touch the precedes a kiss (espeically a first kiss, with the hesitant stop and start, and then the lean, and two mouths so close but not touching, and the eyes flutter closed with a soft gasp... Yeah, that kind of visual gets me every time. I don't even have to like the couple particularly.
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All the time, actually. I'm terrible at writing imagery. Dialogue I'm good with, but imagery? not so much.
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