of fandom. It also captured the academic imagination.
outside of the fandom stuff?
and of fandom in a world where many high-level games are drawn in somewhat rote fashion, perfect though the play may
are from the fandom, and access as far as having access to brands and the fashion industry as artists and how that has changed.
What was your first fandom experience?
Morgana's fandango, what a nightmare.
of proportion fandom for this particular writer.
So it's the fandoms where you never get to see a story in your tiny little fandom.
But in fandom that doesn't-- in fanfic that doesn't happen.
and its fandom. And I very much wanted to show both aspects, both the history and the example of folks, like Mr. Vader,
but it was a lot of fandom communities like the XFiles had like a pretty big internet presence. um Star Trek like it
like weather.com or Craigslist or Fandango for movie listings.
And how did you fall into the fandom?
And much like with comics fandom, yes, you did swipes.
Our relationship is combination of fandom, loyalty, family and they also help me with money and legal issues
We're the best at fandom.
Like the Disney Wikia Haunted Mansion fandom is hardcore, and they have resolved all the canon.
People do a lot of shipping in fandom.
It's a really wonderful meta comment on the fandom.
And if the platform allows for that and the fandom allows for that, then you have an open door for creative spaces.
Like, the fandom around it and what that meant to people who are queer, even though the show wasn't
And I want a story in any one of these four fandoms.
And these are-- Yuletide is specifically for rare and obscure fandoms.
You get more by basically building a community around your fandom.
Because those comments-- the more commenting is going on in a fandom, the more likely it is that somebody else is going to want to jump in and write
It's also meant that people who run challenges in fandom are frequently the kinds of people who have large communities and lots of friends.
down so I was stick with all these fanders and Gibson I have to almost to
And when I was talking earlier about different fandoms, the Harry Potter sets went into hibernation for a few years based on licensing and movies. And so, they're coming out with new sets in
OK. How do you think fandom has changed from hanging out with your friends at the slumber party, the convention in 2011?
want to get a sense of uh of the room of your Hamilton awareness or fandom or
So it was pretty interesting, the power of fandom and the internet teaming together can really do some fun things.
They're both starting from the same place of being invested in the fandom.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer used to be one of the most popular fandoms in FanFiction, The Lord of the Rings, just about any TV show, movie, book, even there's FanFiction about
--it's modernized, modernized "Star Wars." You mentioned kind of what drew you to the fandom in terms of how it felt and your mother.
I think someone smarter than me can maybe explain it, but it's part of that fandom.
The subdiscipline of Buffy studies, combining institutional academic criticism and theory with fandom and unlicensed criticism in the public sphere,
And as the evolution of the athlete grows, so does our fandom, and so does our celebrity.
But you do-- like, you just run across these things where you appreciate the fandom that they're-- like we had someone came to our show.
But they didn't. The success of the first movie and the fandom around it, were there a lot of celebrities in Hollywood
And then-- so the times that that has happened is lesser than people just sort of expressing fandom.
Remember, the readers are a small subset of overall "Star Wars" fandom.
What happens is, like an example, science fiction fandom-- there's this saying that if you do something once it's a tradition, if you do it twice,
They sign up for something between-- they say I'll write a story at any one of these six fandoms.
You get more by building a community, not just around your fandom but about the specific characters, or the specific pairing.
Generally, you write the kinds of stories that you want to read in fandom.
Because you need a big enough base of audience for people who want to write in that fandom to find each other in a way.
So in the FanFiction community women write stories about the characters or the settings of these fandoms . It's not always romantic or erotic but the vast majority of the stories
But it is amazing, because you can come in from all different angles of deep, deep fandom, comment fandom, watching everything from day one,
And there's this-- Steve and I call it in the book, a semi-permeable membrane between the canon and the fandom, and you can imagine that for lots
Oh, for sure. I mean, you know, when I do TV, my fandom has come to expects a certain something from me.