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

[firecat]

Thank you. I need to write another post about my personal history with fandom/being a fan of various things, because it ties in with why I made this post.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I will be very interested to read that post. I seldom talk about what few fandom activities I participate in, when I participate, because I worry about boring people.

I think to me in some ways fandom is similar to a shared hobby - I think ljgeoff's "shared community" works. I know that there is Mercedes Lackey fandom for her Valdemar series that has led to some of the fen (plural of "fan," and I have no idea when that came into vogue) getting published in official short story collections. (Queen's Own (http://www.dragonlordsnet.com/qo.htm) is the official fansite.