Fan Testimonials
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Fan Testimonials can take on several forms.
One is fans writing essays and descriptions describing their fannish journeys. This can include reasons for their devotion to certain fandoms and actors, writers, and other honoraries.
Another is descriptions of their real life interactions with celebrities, actors, and other people involved in producing their favorite media and fandom.
Fan Testimonials: Introspection and Descriptions of Devotion
Another form of testimonials are fans telling other fans about their fannish journeys to and within fandom: how they became fans, what fandom means to them. In that sense, these public statements operate a bit like open letters, but without the widespread visibility or goal of changing someone's mind.
They can also be in the form of descriptions about why they admire certain celebrities, actors, singers, writers, and other honoraries.
Sometimes these testimonials can take on the feel of a religious conversion, of stating one's intent to follow a celebrity and to be a good fan.
Fan Testimonials: Interactions with Actors, Writers, and Other TPTB
Some of these visits are Fans on Sets, but many others are fan interactions with their honoraries at production studios, on personal visits, and at conventions.
The testimonial aspect of these visits are the many descriptions and accounts fans told to each other in letters, over the phone, in person, and written accounts in fanzines.
Describing their interactions to other fans had many motives.
One was, of course, to brag about their experience, and perhaps about their social standing in fandom.
Another was to share their good fortune with other fans, and give them a peek into what the "real" person was like.
Another was to provide content for fanzines, mainly club zines. These zines often had a regular section devoted to these testimonials, and encouraged other fans to provide content.
Some Star Trek Fan Testimonials About Meeting Actors and Other TPTB
