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fandomsecrets2012-03-23 07:01 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-03-23 07:01 pm
[ SECRET POST #1907 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1907 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Disney's Gargoyles]
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[X-Men: First Class]
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[keanu reeves]
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11. [SPOILERS for Death Note]
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12. [SPOILERS for Kuragehime]
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13. [SPOILERS for The Walking Dead]
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14. [SPOILERS for Supernatural]
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15. [SPOILERS for Mass Effect 3]
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16. [SPOILERS for Mass Effect 3]
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18. [TRIGGER WARNING for sexual abuse]
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19. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]
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20. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #272.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - hit/ship/spiration ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Primary fandoms: At the moment it's just really Sherlock (BBC) and a little bit of Cabin Pressure. Sometimes depending on my mood I read a little SPN/CW RP (old fandoms of mine) or Harry Potter.
How has fandom affected your life?: God. It was/is such a big part I genuinely think I would be a completely different person if I hadn't discovered it. When I was a teenager connecting with other people through fandom was what kept me sane, both through actually writing/reading about fandom stuff and through discussing our personal lives. Nowadays it's still one of my favourite hobbies. I have improved my writing immensely over the years which I don't think I'd have been half as inspired to do if there weren't people there eager for me to share it with them, which isn't often the case with original fic. In the last few years especially it's made me question media and what I accept a lot more, and I've always loved to question and wanted people to do that so I'm really glad of that. I also learnt skills with things like Paint and Windows Movie Maker for fandom purposes which later turned out to be useful elsewhere.
How do you think new advances in technology/social media (Facebook, twitter, LJ, tumblr etc) have changed fandom? For better or worse?: Weeell. Hmm. I started on ff.net and moved to LJ (after a few months drifting between Yahoo groups, fandomination.net and so on) when they took out RP and NC-17 fic. At first I wasn't too sure about LJ because it was such a different platform but I grew to love it because it made it a million times easier to interact with other people. It is, however, terrible for archiving purposes and it means you have to keep track of anything you like, otherwise finding it later can be a nightmare. I don't think I've really seen a whole lot to do with Facebook in fandom, I think mostly because fandom tends to be people keeping almost separate from their meatspace lives and Facebook is very much interacting with people you already know in meatspace. so.
Tumblr I think has maybe made it easier for people to lose themselves in fandom. I don't use it myself, though I occasionally go there to look for something in particular (which is a nightmare) but I have heard lots of people talking about going on there and suddenly the day's gone, and I could see how that would happen. It's great for sharing things but I think awful at tracking that, keeping the original creator attached to it so that they receive credit, and most of it I don't think is original content (as in, people share far more of other people's stuff than they post new stuff of their own). It's kind of like a neverending party post but when it means that people forget to actually do the rest of the stuff in fandom, the writing fic and meta and commenting on that and making vids and so on, I think it does lessen the fandom experience a bit.
How do you think current technology advances have changed how fandom interacts with the creators of the media of fandom?:
Twitter...has made it easier for people to interact with the creators and contributors to canon, which is kind of cool for people who like to do that respectfully but unfortuantely tends to mean that the few people who have problems with manners and social convention end up representing fandom by default, and then people who aren't in fandom get a skewed view of it.
It can be amusing when you get a little shout out to fandom, a little in-joke here and there, but when it gets to the level of Becky the crazy fangirl in SPN, it's just embarassing because there will be many people watching SPN who know nothing about fandom and that is the first time they'll be exposed to it. There's no balance in the show, just really obsessive fans and Sam and Dean talking about "as in, Sam slash Dean. Together," and while the creators might sort of understand that obsession and actually value it (even if they also like to poke fun a little bit) the vast majority of non-fandom people won't. Trying to explain fandom to someone who's not in it can be exhausting and I think it is one thing that makes much more sense if you actually experience it yourself (and then get dragged into the vortex).
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