[ SECRET POST #6312 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6312 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

Did Pterry actually know and enjoy Sailor Moon or...? I don't mean to be rude, but I don't really see the connection here. Is this really about Pratchett's media preferences or OP doing some mad projection?

[(Anonymous)]

It's possible. It's also possible that it may be colored by your personal fandom experience. I never heard of Terry Pratchett until I started visiting this comm, because my fandom spaces didn't have to do with him/his books. My fandoms have mostly been on particular pairing/archive sites, and mostly anime, with a few VG and a few movies/tv shows.

That said, would you mind expanding on examples of it? Perhaps I've seen them in my own fandom experience and since I wasn't familiar, I wouldn't recognize it as "him".

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the folks who invented the Internet were Star Trek fans, so it was hugely influential

Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-not-cite-the-deep-magic-to-me-witch)

If you mean the small subset of fandom that is modern LJ-DW-Tumblr-AO3 media fandom, I still don't think it was Pratchett: he wasn't even published until 1983, long after Trekkies. The first Kirk/Spock fics were shared in the 1970s, and even in the late 1990s, most people who were in early media fandoms such as The X-Files and popslash were not really SFF fans.

I've never really seen Sailor Moon fandom, so maybe it's key to anime fandom but not all fandom.

If you're just being a troll, well, I had a nice few minutes there

[(Anonymous)]

I do think Pratchett was important to the development of internet fandom, particularly in UK and Commonwealth spaces. Definitely as much as so X-Files fans and more than popslash, superhero comics, Harry Potter etc. Sailor Moon is also an important one for anime.

But Star Trek was absolutely foundational.

(Also, I want to know where you got the idea that X-Files fans were not SFF fans, since my Star Trek, Doctor Who and X-Files fan clubs had pretty much 100% overlap!)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Pratchett fan, but... no. Star Trek is such an old, large fandom that was so technology-leaning that it had the most influence on the early days of the internet and fandom. Pratchett I'd put second, Harry Potter third but its influence comes later when the foundation of internet fandoms were already laid. I don't know where Sailor Moon comes in, to be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

star trek created modern slash and the mary sue; far more people know what star trek is, meaning more people would've gotten into fandom because of it

star trek, and sci-fi fans in general, are also probably slightly more predisposed to being early adopters of new technology like usergroups and the early web, and also to stay in them longer