Talk:Fannish Community

This needs a lot of work: category links and much more about fanart and vids and other stuff. By someone who knows a lot more about fandom community than me :-/ --Msilverstar 17:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand why the list was broken into sublists. I mean, when I last looked it was kind of a checklist "you know you're a fan if you..." type of thing, with the idea that if you check more than x boxes on that list you are more likely a fan than not. Now, I'm not sure that was the most brilliant approach to explain fannish community and distinguish it on the continuum to the regular engaged audience, but it made sense. And most of these activities have their own pages explaining them in detail. I don't get why the bullet point "making fanart" needs explanation or "more fandom". I mean, obviously you could break it down into tiny steps like the meta section and make half a dozen bullet points that say things like "draw fan comics" "make chibis of your favorite character" "paint easter eggs to look like your favorite character" "knit puppets" "make fanart tutorials" "feedback fanart" or something like that but clearly that all either should be or already is covered in the fanart article. Actually I think some of the other sections should be shorter if anything, with the details of what it means to write fanfic or meta going in the respective articles.--Ratcreature 18:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

ETA: Actually the more I'm thinking about this, the more I think the goal of this article needs to be reconsidered. I mean, what is this article supposed to explain? Right now it says in a lengthy way that members of the fannish community are fans who engage in fanac with other fans. Which is kind of tautological and has a list of fanac that is longer than the one in that article.--Ratcreature 19:03, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I took away from the original article that one has to interact with other people in some way (and then a lot of those ways were listed) in order to be a part of the fannish community. Which seems tautological, but at the same time, there used to be people who said 'oh my first fandom was my little pony, when I pretended that I was one, and wrote my adventures down in my journal, for my own amusement.' Obviously, that person was a my little pony fan, but they weren't necessarily part of a fannish community because that person was independent of interaction with anyone else. So like Ratcreature, I was looking at it as an index into the types of things someone could do as part of the fannish community, but not necessarily an exhaustive list--more a jumping off point for someone 5 years from now who stumbles onto the site and wonders what the heck the fannish community does. --rache 19:36, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I can see some sort of list to give examples for the fan interaction parts that make fan community different from solitary fanac, just shorter than it is now rather than longer or broken into sections. I think most of that belongs into the specialized pages for the specific thing, or should be used to expand the still very short fanac page. E.g. the whole Watsonian/Doylist distiction and explanation of how fans talk about the sources with other fans would fit better there, IMO, because here it doesn't really matter how a fan talks with other fans about the source, just that it happens and thus community is created.--Ratcreature 19:51, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

In the Fanwork/Fan fiction subcategory, should we have an entry about betas readers?--Xenakis 01:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure where this could slot into the article, but hesychasm's Fandom Is. . . might be of interest.

Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

--Anenko 13:02, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

what does "(kbs as list moms)" mean?

is that a typo, or a acronym that needs to get a glossary def?

I went back through the history, and it's in your original writeup, so I'm guessing it's a typo. <G> Maybe for aka? --Arduinna 01:07, 6 December 2008 (UTC)