Your mission should you choose to accept it

[firecat]

This is coming up for me as a result of a combination of things, including: having started to read Star Trek the Reboot fanfic, conversations I heard at Wiscon, and posts I saw today, including this one.

Describe science fiction fandom.
Describe media fandom.
What fandoms do you consider yourself to belong to or feel some affinity with?
What terms do you use to describe them?

Comments

[sistercoyote]

I'm responding here because I want to mess with your head, I guess.

There are two specific people on my f-list I would like to direct to this post, either here or on LJ. May I? They have been heavily involved in fandom (including cosplay).

[firecat]

Certainly!

[firecat]

And thank you, I really enjoyed their contributions.

[sistercoyote]

You're welcome, although I was surprised to discover that Max (slothman) considers himself a part of fandom!

He's very intelligent, hugely socially awkward (though less so since he married), and you'd probably like him. :)

[firecat]

The OH knows him -- they used to work together, and they both go to Baycon -- and also says I would like him.

It's a small world. :)

[sistercoyote]

That's way bizarre.

I went to college with him, sort of. Actually, I had dropped out of college but he was rooming with a friend so that's how we met.

It is a very small world. Six degrees of separation (which works a number of ways in this particular instance).