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[uisceros]

With the advent of a book I've been waiting a year for (oh the waiting!), I got thinking about the Harry Potter fandom, and fandoms in general.


The HP fandom was not my first fandom, but it's the one that's stayed with me the longest. Other things come and go, but I've been in the HP fandom since 1998, I believe.

Anyway, I've been in it forever. So it's special to me.

Occasionally I would partake in discussions, but overall my focus was fanfic. Still, I did know quite a bit about the fandom on a whole. HP fandom is huge, and the shipping area of it is massive. There are ships for characters you'd never guess. And these ships all have names... and symbols. There are captains. It's insane and hard to describe to people who don't know.

Like, my ship; Leather and Libraries. Otherwise known as Dramione. There's an official candy (Lifesavers)...

Anyway, what I was getting to is the massive HP fandom controversies that happened. Somehow I missed them all.

I don't know about other fandoms, but in the HP fandom we have BNFs (Big Name Fans). And there are fangirls for the BNFs. Cassie Claire is/was one. And from that (the desire to be a BNF, the desire to bring down BNF, fighting BETWEEN the BNFs, etc) there was an intense amount of discord. Stuff that honestly disgusted me, because aren't we supposed to banded together over something? Isn't that the purpose of fandom?

I haven't really encountered stuff like that in this fandom, which makes me extremely happy. Then again, I avoid forums and discussion boards because honestly, I don't want to hear the negativity. I'm in this fandom because I love it. I don't want to hear other people being negative.

That being said, I really love reading Fandom Wank, because some of the stuff is really ridiculous.


In closing, thank you people of the drama fandom, for being so utterly, amazingly, totally awesome! *squishes* Love you all!

Also, totally going to be MIA for a few days while I read my book. Which I am getting tonight! So excited!

Comments

[airplanemusic.livejournal.com]

I think every decently large fandom will have BNFs and their ass-kissers. I know it exists in Johnny's fandom, though I didn't really read enough forums/communities to know many of them by name.

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

I honestly have no clue. The only fandoms I've gotten heavily involved with are the Harry Potter fandom (in-so-where you cannot avoid the BNFs, even if you tried), the POTC fandom (where we had semi-BNFs, but I liked all of them, and there was no controversy), and the drama fandom, where I haven't gotten myself involved in the BNF business. The only reason I know most of the old school HP BNFs is from fanfic. Since the drama com doesn't really have that much fic, I'm kinda in the dark.

I think I hate the ass kissers the most, more than the BNFs. Like, being nice and pleasant is one thing, but when someone changes their whole opinions on something JUST because of what a BNF thinks? That's ridiculous. Granted, I'm not entirely exempt from it. I was a bit of a BNF fangirl back in the day. But I blame youth for that.

It's sad, because I kinda want to be one, but I think that's true of everyone... we all want fame, even if it's only relative.