Mono-fan
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| See also: | fannish butterfly | |
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General
A mono-fan, or someone who is mono-fannish, is a fan who has only one fandom.
A mono-fan tends to get deeper into their fandom than fans who follow many fandoms at once. They're more likely to know every episode title, in order, set up canon vs fanon listings, or fabulous repositories of canon knowledge such as the Stargate Handbook. If they go to conventions, mono-fans are more likely to go to guest-cons that have actors from their show, or fan-cons that are specifically for fans of one show, like WinchesterCon; fans with multiple interests might be more likely to go to mixed conventions like MediaWest for gen fans, or Slashcon, Escapade or BASCon for slash fans.
Mono-fans are also less likely to know what's going on in other fandoms, and more likely to think that all fandoms must do things the same way things are done in their fandom. When mono-fans wander out into greater fandom, this can lead to wank.
Mono-fannishness is contrasted with the condition of being multi-fannish (having multiple fandoms at once). This is sometimes also called being a fannish butterfly.
A fan who periodically moves to a new fandom, but stays with each individual fandom mono-fannishly (solely and for long periods of time), is serially mono-fannish.
