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

[snippy]

I think of myself as a fan more because I like to hang around cons than anything else, even though I adore SF/F to the point of proselytizing. Fandom has been an excellent filter for me to find fascinating people. I don't find a significant difference to my enjoyment of fandom by type of media: so far I have enjoyed filkers and "media" fans (which means non-printed-material, I think) and writers and readers and costumers and so forth.