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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-17 06:47 pm

[ SECRET POST #2207 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2207 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #315.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2013-01-18 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
"It seems like (some) fans are just jumping from fandom to fandom, caring little about the actual canon"

This is kind of how I've felt about fandom for a while--maybe ever since Tumblr became the major platform for fannish activities, if I want to be honest with myself. Just this year, it feels like a mass of fans collectively moved from Sherlock to Avengers to Teen Wolf to Skyfall--and now it's The Hobbit. And sometimes it feels a little like writers are just taking on new fandoms so that they don't lose readers and stay on top of the trend.

Or maybe I'm just grumpy because I only see chemistry in two of the fandoms I've listed and couldn't care less about the rest of them.
thene: Fang, Vanille and the space between them. (awakened)

[personal profile] thene 2013-01-18 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
In anime fandoms before high-speed internet, it was pretty common for people to be open about not having seen their fandom's canon and be just following the fandom due to social momentum - even pretty good writers, sometimes. It's partly because, as well as being a medium, fandom (particularly slash) is a multimedia genre that people like to follow and work in, and a culture of people surrounding it. At least modern western equivalents have generally seen the film/tv show they're writing about.

(Anonymous) 2013-01-18 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
...which two fandoms? :D
brooms: (ja'mie)

[personal profile] brooms 2013-01-18 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
betting on sherlock for slot 1 and either tw or avengers for slot 2

(Anonymous) 2013-01-18 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think when people get into fandoms through fanwork they sometimes prefer the fanwork. Say how Teen Wolf does not actually have much Stiles/Derrek in it. That's a disappointment to new fans! Why switch to the canon they don't like as much when they have the fanon they knew first?

(Anonymous) 2013-01-18 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not even remotely interested in Stiles/Derrick, but I do like Stiles from what I saw of fandom. I tried so hard to like Teen Wolf, but WOW, Scott is just about the most boring lead character I've seen in a show in a long while.