everything's FINE

[iamsab]

Things I know about yesterday: Donnatella Moss didn't die. I learned that on AIM. Then I learned about denialcorp on AIM as far as SV's concerned, and I share the following: EVERYTHING'S FINE. Then I saw Angel and lots of people died, but since it was the APOCALYPSE and also most of them were demons I'm pretty sure that's not a spoiler. Seriously,

Comments

[moireach]

I kind of get the feeling in the most tertiary of ways that LOTRips may be the big monkey of the hour. Also PoTC was getting all big for a while, too, but now it's maybe dwindled?

Before that, of course, was XF, the One Big Fandom To Rule Them All, and before that, I had Trek, the One Big Fandom To Birth Them All.

It's funny 'cause it's true!

[ratcreature]

Heh. That is because DC comics RULE. ;)

*hides her stash of Daredevil and Spider-Man comics*

[kerlin]

whitelight1 linked to your post and as for CSI: I suppose you could call it a big fandom, in that it's the #1 show in America or some such jazz, but...it doesn't quite feel as "big" as Farscape did. (does?) Its main archive is ff.net, which is the devil, though there are smaller specialized archives for pairings. It hasn't got much of a community in that it's incredibly factionalized. So while on paper it would fit a lot of the requirements, I just don't get that vibe.

[mmeguilotn]

Pop as a fandom is actually fairly large and yet fairly cohesive. Not on the scale of something like HP of course, but it feels pretty there. And, whatever you think of RPS, most popslashers are legitimate fans of the media as well. They buy the albums and the DVDs and pay obscene amounts of money to go to charity events.

I find that the HP fandom is so large that there are practically BNFs by pairing. So that you'll find someone who's very well-known in Snape/Harry circles, but the Harry/Draco people won't have even heard of them.

[iamsab]

Yeah, popslash, I totally forgot. How has popslash survived in the last few years? Is it still going strong? Several of the folks I knew who were in the fandom have moved on -- or at least spread out their interests -- so I don't know if it's as centralized as it was. Though it's still definitely ubiquitous.

And, interesting about the HP fandom. That whole fandom empire frightens me no end.

[mmeguilotn]

Popslash is still alive and kicking. I'm a post-hiatus newbie, so I can't really say what it was like back in the heady days when the bands were actually together. Some people may have drifted away, and a lot of the popslashers I know write in other fandoms as well, but there is definitely a core group that is very hooked in.

[tangleofthorns]

Yeah, CSI is kind of a faux-fandom--there's the barking mad Gil/Sara love brigade, and then there are... everybody else, but there's not a real unifying factor. One of the amazing things about TWW, I always thought, was that there were good writers (present company included) who wrote in different pairings and genres and moved between them fluidly--really well-rounded BNFs, in other words.

I don't know what's up with those Smallville/Everwood type people, but there seem to be lots of them, too.

I'm kind of feeling fandom-disaporic, myself; I'm vaguely into lots of things, but it sure doesn't help that TV sucks so bad anymore it's hard to develop an attachment, and I'm still grieving the loss of TWW as the show I was compelled to watch. I don't have a home base anymore, and that's okay, because really I should be writing less fanfic and more original fiction anyway, but I miss it the same way you do.

[iamsab]

There's definitely a there there in Smallville -- I get the feeling Everwood is a side-dish fandom in the way Firefly is (and possibly CSI too).

I think you might be right and that we've just caught a downward slope of TV in general, as all the old fannish shows are cancelled and none of the new shows are really biting. Wonderfalls showed promise and promptly vanished, and that was the closest I've heard to a new fannish show on the horizon. Alas.