[ SECRET POST #3918 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3918 ⌋

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02.
(Dance Moms)


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[In Treatment]


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05.
[Life]


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06.
[glee & buffy the vampire slayer]


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07.
[Hinterlands]











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Comments

Re: Is this right?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm not into the 'locusts' stuff easier because I think this is just a thing that happens in the subculture of fandom across all fandoms to varying degrees, and 'locusts' seems like one group of fans trying to put down another group and say 'we're not like them' (yes you are motherfuckers, you just don't like weird animated shit, you like your own weird shit).

FWIW this is basically the substance of my issue with the phrase in general. it seems to me like it is used primarily if not exclusively with that sense. even if it's usually not as explicit as calling them locusts.

I don't remember what I had in mind when I used the word structural, exactly. But talking in terms of migratory fandom is a massive simplification that elides a ton of different things, and i'm not sure that the use of being able to describe faddishness in fandom outweighs the connotation and all of that side of things.

Re: Is this right?

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough. When I first encountered the phrase it was referring to migratory slash fandoms and didn't seem so derogatory (more exasperated IIRC), but I can well believe that it's become much more negative since then.

I also get the irritation with the generalisation - generalisations are, after all, only useful up to a point if they are useful at all. And if there's a bunch of cultural baggage attached to migratory fandom I'm interested in a better term as well.