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Fandom far afield
When was the last time you participated in fandom on the internet not through a journaling site? I don't really mean posting fanfic to something like fanfiction.net, unless you also post and discuss in the forums there. I mean discussion, meta, the posting of fanfic, the making of graphics, etc, all being share through a medium other than LJ, DW, Insane Journal, JournalFen, etc. This would be a forum, website, mailing list . . . if you did something like a fanzine, not online, I'm interested in that too.
1) What fandom was it?
2) What was the medium? (e.g. was it a forum, a mailing list, etc)
3) When was this?
4) Are you still active in that fandom?
5) Why did you participate there, and not at a journaling site?
6) Are you more active in fandom on journaling sites or at other places?
7) How did the different mode of interaction affect your fandom participation?
8) Does there seem to you to be a difference in fen between the other medium and journaling sites? What are the differences? Why do you think those differences exist? Is it the nature of that fandom, or do you think it has anything to do with where that fandom is taking place?
9) What were the fen in the other medium's thoughts on yaoi? (No, seriously. What was the general sentiment towards slash?)
10) Was it easier or harder to get into a fandom through a medium other than a journaling site?
11) Which medium do you prefer?
If it sounds like I'm doing a study, I'm not. I'm just dabbling around in this other fandom, the fen of which seems mainly to congregate around a forum rather than playing on LJ/DW. I'm wondering how many people share my experiences there. Forums used to be my main method of fandom access. I was comfortable in them and found LJ inconvenient and not very suited to my style. I became used to it because I decided a lot of cool people were here...and now I'm beginning to think it's the only way!
1) What fandom was it?
2) What was the medium? (e.g. was it a forum, a mailing list, etc)
3) When was this?
4) Are you still active in that fandom?
5) Why did you participate there, and not at a journaling site?
6) Are you more active in fandom on journaling sites or at other places?
7) How did the different mode of interaction affect your fandom participation?
8) Does there seem to you to be a difference in fen between the other medium and journaling sites? What are the differences? Why do you think those differences exist? Is it the nature of that fandom, or do you think it has anything to do with where that fandom is taking place?
9) What were the fen in the other medium's thoughts on yaoi? (No, seriously. What was the general sentiment towards slash?)
10) Was it easier or harder to get into a fandom through a medium other than a journaling site?
11) Which medium do you prefer?
If it sounds like I'm doing a study, I'm not. I'm just dabbling around in this other fandom, the fen of which seems mainly to congregate around a forum rather than playing on LJ/DW. I'm wondering how many people share my experiences there. Forums used to be my main method of fandom access. I was comfortable in them and found LJ inconvenient and not very suited to my style. I became used to it because I decided a lot of cool people were here...and now I'm beginning to think it's the only way!
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Anywho, I think a lot of people were intimidated, for similar reasons. I thought about going to JA forums about it, and decided not to--both because it would be a lot of trouble (I'd have to register several places) and because I didn't expect a lot of cross over. I did tell the N&S forum on which I've been participating about it, with no response. What I was expecting was fen to come out of the woodwork of LJ/DW, really.
I think you're right about people not wanting to consume time with something outside their primary fandoms, but . . . well, one of the reasons I'm not in JA fandom was I couldn't find it on LJ, except in the form of approx. 1 billion icon communities. I thought if I started something for the canon I'm interested in, people like me who just couldn't find them on LJ/DW would say, "ah, here's a way to be involved in this fandom through my journal! Considerably less effort than a forum..." Primarily, I wish JA, the Brontes, and Gaskell, with occasional Dickens and Wilde thrown in, were just huge fandoms on journal sites, with posts popping up every day on my flist with people saying intelligent things about them all the time, and writing fic about them and--and--stuff.
Anyway, as much as I love non-canon pairings in some fandoms, I don't really seek them in much of the period drama I enjoy. In fact, I'm very boring; mostly I just want the main pairing of each book when I actually seek fanfic: Emma/Mr. Knightley, Margaret Hale/Mr. Thornton, etc. But I would read anything in these canons if it was good, and I wanted as many people as possible who felt they could participate. Apparently in saying that, no one will!
I have since changed the exchange format to a fest format. I have yet to go around promoting that; I'm really burned out on the whole idea. But I still mean to do it.
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Depending on when the fest (classes -_-), I would be interested in participating.
(Actually, there are JA fans from the forums in lj--I get the impression they either don't use it for fandom participation, or they use it, like me, for other fandoms.)