Research!

[featherynscale]

I need some help from the flist on this one, particularly those of you who consider yourself fannish. I'm interested in what the experience of fandom is like for people, generally, I think. If you could take a moment and comment below, I'd appreciate it.

What I'm particularly interested in knowing about are things like: how/when do you know you are a fan? What are your criteria for determining who is and is not a part of a fandom? What sorts of activities, if any, are you likely to participate in due to or related to your fandom? Does it affect your language or other behavior outside of strictly fandom-related activities? How does your fandom play out in your day-to-day life, if at all? That sort of thing.

Seriously. Talk to me about fandom. It's for a class I'm working on.

Thanks!

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The one thing I would consider a true fandom thing for me is Harry Potter. Even so, I don't take things with a my-life-depends-on-it seriousness. Not even Remus/Sirius. Really.

I did the fanfic thing and the role play thing summer before last, but that was mainly to spend time with twixxa before she left for France and not so much because for the sake of the fandom itself. The stories were partially intended to be and wound up being good practice for writing my own stuff, as well. Any effects on language or other behaviors are more of a silly, inside-joke nature, mostly in the family, and are both meant and perceived as silliness. Not sure if that quite counts either.

All in all, I imagine I'm perceived by others, especially here on LJ, as being more fangirly than I really am.

Having said all that, one of my summer goals is going to be to create a Red Dwarf mood theme. :-)