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Jan 08, 2009 22:34

So, propinquitine is writing a fannish paper for law school and asked for my perspective on fannish differences (or not) of opinion. I started composing a reply, but I got totally sidetracked and ended up writing a ginormous essay on the history of my own fannish interactions and how much I love Fandom. And thus (somewhat edited and slightly expanded from the ( Read more... )

anime/manga, fandoms, tv: pgsm, tv: merlin, tv: stargate atlantis, tea, internet, geekyness, languages, in which i am long-winded, friends, people, bryn mawr, fandom love!, loe, series: bssm

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monkey_junkey January 9 2009, 05:43:07 UTC

♥♥♥ I love SGA fandom too and will be hanging on for dear life with you!

And for the record, PGSM is made of cheesy WIN.

winkingstar January 9 2009, 18:01:22 UTC

*clings*

And also OMGYAY another PGSM fan! :D It is definitely made of cheesy WIN. I mean, it'll be all serious-like (even while surrounded by plastic toy props) and then someone will have a serious conversation in a turtle suit:

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propinquitine January 9 2009, 06:28:27 UTC

Lady, thank you for this, I will read better and respond properly (possibly in person tomorrow?) once my eyes are no longer crossing. Compiling a bibliography, FTL. (Well, no, lots of sources = FTW, but still: blergh.)

winkingstar January 9 2009, 17:54:08 UTC

You're most welcome, dear. Obviously I got inspired. *g*

fish_echo January 9 2009, 07:57:20 UTC

*hugs and squishes*

winkingstar January 9 2009, 17:53:12 UTC

*hugs and squishes back!*

lacontessa11 January 10 2009, 12:35:53 UTC

Can I just say how much I SERIOUSLY MISS the Shingetsu days? That was when I was in D.C. with people from school whom I liked . . . but who were very much not geeky in any way. The PGSM boards and chats totally saved me from unending boredom--and everyone was super awesome! I love you guys! *huggles* These days I don't have enough time to be active in any fandoms, which sucks. I will sometimes chat on the Anime News Network boards in response to specific stories, but it's very limited.

Also, school papers on your hobbies are the best kind (although you have to be careful they don't make you hate what it is you're writing about >_>). I wrote my final Advanced Trademarks paper on Asian ball-jointed dolls. Did you tell us the results of your paper on the podfic archive yet? That was probably way more intellectual than what I wrote (I was just describing and applying caselaw--the most in-depth thing I did was conduct a survey. But it was the last paper of my third year, so there was no way I was putting out much effort there).

winkingstar January 13 2009, 05:28:46 UTC

PGSM/Shingetsu were so much fun! And life-saving for the both of us. ♥ It really was an awesome set of people, all around. I think that was the least wanky fandom I've seen. (Obviously we had our spot of trouble, but wank and problems were definitely less frequent, I think.)

The podfic paper is over here. Using a fannish topic made that particular class so much more interesting. :) It got bogged down by me padding it with random vaguely-related quotes in order to meet the citation requirement, but overall it's a pretty good paper and I'm hoping to rewrite it a bit for possible publication.