[ SECRET POST #2393 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2393 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not everyone has to be obsessive, though I do think if you're in fandom, it should be assumed that you're into it enough to notice some minor details. OTOH everyone notices/cares about different things. In a class I took where we spent a whole semester on a book, in other words became obsessed for grade purposes, all of us focused on completely different things, and there were people who noticed things some of us hadn't. One person did her paper on a character nobody else had even really considered, even though looking back the character is actually quite important. It doesn't mean we weren't "really" involved, our interests in the specifics just varied.

[lemiru]

well, I'd say that if you consider yourself part of the 'fandom', you'd probably be into it more than in a 'have seen a few episodes and liked' it kind of way. But you can still call yourself a fan of something without knowing everything. I don't know, I kind of consider 'being a fan' and 'being in the fandom' two separate things, maybe that's just me? My point was more about how there shouldn't be a hierarchy of 'fannishness' and that nobody should be called/considered a bad fan just because you don't know every bit of trivia.

Your example sounds amazing though, I wish I had an experience like that in school. All my school related readings were always tied with whatever the teacher actually wanted us to pick up, so that we could discuss that particular aspect in class (which is probably why I picked an essentially non literary major in the end haha). Mind if I ask you what book that was?

[(Anonymous)]

Possession by A.S. Byatt. Not a book I think most of us would have read on our own, I really disliked it until 300 pages in when suddenly I loved it (which is way too long), but it made for great "meta" and I'm glad we read it in the end. :) It really was like being in the smallest real life fandom ever, haha. (It was a seminar class, so that was the only thing we read.)

Yeah, I agree that fandom and being a fan are two different things. I guess with trivia, I meant whatever specific trivia grabs you. I don't really think much about the clothing in Mad Men, but I do think and remember a lot of character details. You're right though that there shouldn't be a hierarchy.