August 2012
9 posts
“Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think — and...”
– John Scalzi (via izzatso)
Well said — Megan
July 2012
9 posts
Meditation on Fandom re: Gawker's James Holmes...
blurintofocus:
Adrian Chen does a decent job of actually getting at fandom, briefly, for a general audience.
“Fandom in many ways now spends as much time talking about itself as it does talking about TV shows and movies and comics,” wrote scholar Rebecca Lucy Busker in 2008. Back then, Busker attributed the change to a new awareness among fans of fandoms outside their own, due to the fact that...
Dear Teen Wolf Fandom:
lolafeist:
teenwolf:
We love you. You’re the reason our boy Posey won Choice Summer TV Actor. And we’ll let you know about the other category as soon as we hear anything.
Keep being amazing.
I am not super invested in this award but I am so, so in love with this adorable official Tumblr and their rapport with this fandom. I have been doing fandom for a decade and I’ve never seen anything...
Dear Journalists Covering SDCC
themarysue:
postcardsfromspace:
DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A WORD THAT MEANS BOTH “FANBOY” AND “FANGIRL” AND ALSO COVERS PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS NEITHER?
It is “fan.”
You’re welcome.
I’m nominally out of the office for a few days, so instead of getting a quick meditation on how “fanboy” usually denotes enthusiasm and only occasionally misplaced sycophantic behavior while “fangirl” is much more...
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quel alexandra dit: Joyful PlayThere are a lot of... →
quelalexandradit:
Joyful Play
There are a lot of misconceptions floating around about people who write fan fiction and why they write it, so let’s knock off a few of them right up front. Fan-fiction writers are not pornographers. (This perception is so pervasive that in order to avoid confusing their friends and colleagues, many of the people interviewed for this article declined to be...
Alert to Podfic Makers and Fanfic Writers!
transformativeworks:
There are a number of discussions in fan circles right now regarding the Random House Audio Fan Fiction Contest being held at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International. The publisher is offering fan fiction authors the opportunity to record their own original work of fan fiction during Comic-Con for a chance to have their work published as a downloadable audio book on...
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Deconstructing Storyboard's 1D fandom coverage
quelalexandradit:
Inside the Gleefully Obsessed World of One Direction Superfandom
So far, so good. ”Gleefully obsessed” is a fuck of a lot nicer than “crazy” and “hysterical.”
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Over the next 24 hours, a quarter of a million One Direction-related posts flooded Tumblr: animated GIFs of the boys’ performance, photos, poetry, letters, fans vowing to stay “up all night” for the end of the “Up...
