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uiscerosWith 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!
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!
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Date: 2009-03-25 09:52 am (UTC)I think dorama fandom also has BNFs (as any other fandom I knew) who usually can influence opinions of the rest of the fandom.
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Date: 2009-03-25 01:30 pm (UTC)Fandom Wank is hilarious, and I love it. I especially love that they expose the major hypocrisies of some fandom people.
I don't really know any drama fandom BNFs myself (maybe dramabeans?), but as I was with HP, I'm not hugely invested in following fandom fashion. Mostly for the reason that I don't want to be influenced by it. I like my own opinions, thanks you very much :D
Come to think of it, maybe it was the BNF influence that exacerbated the BBF backlash...