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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-03-05 12:28 pm

[ SECRET POST #3349 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3349 ⌋

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Early today, places to go!

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Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

(Anonymous) 2016-03-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I get where it comes from because it does exist, but I don't think it's quite as simple as the term suggests. For one thing, fandom as a whole tends to migrate as well, or at least focus on whatever's popular at the time. Right now Poe/Finn and Kylux are popular slash ships, but then everything Star Wars is popular right now.

I'll admit to often being part of this MSF trend, and while I can't be sure if the following things are true for anyone else, I'd be surprised if the weren't. Yes, there are ships that when I'm through with them, I completely forget even if the canon is still going on. But there are also ships that I'm still into even if the fandom is mostly dead because the canon ended years ago. I've ignored ships/fandoms that were massively popular because they didn't seem interesting while being really invested in ships that MSF shrugged at.

I understand the trend the term is describing and why a lot of people are annoyed by it. I just think it reduces people to a mindless herd. Yet another variation of 'oh, those silly fangirls'.

Re: Migratory Slash Fandom

(Anonymous) 2016-03-06 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
I know there are some people who get into one fandom and then stay in it exclusively forever, even when there is no new canon, but I think they are pretty few and far between.