Response to Fannish Kerfluffle Du Jour

[kiya]

You see, the internet makes it so easy to produce trivial content like stuff on the internet, so I've only been agonizing over this for days and then when I actually have it drafted stared at it for ages before hitting "post". It's just too easy for people to contribute, I GOT MIMEOGRAPH INKSTAINS ON ME FINGERS.

http://kiyanicoll.com/2019/06/30/i-was-born-to-be-a-fake-fan/

Bonus ha ha the correct icon for this post is the one with the Heinlein quote.

Comments

[graydon]

Fandom membership is modelled as different things.

Many fandoms are modelled around enthusiasm, but not all; consider the variants where baseball can be "root for the team" or baseball can be "esoteric knowledge".

Fanzine fandom is a social inclusion through esoteric knowledge thing, it's a feature (to its participants) that it's closed because belonging is being defined in the American by-exclusion (we know who we are not!) way, and they're mostly sorta actively anti-enthusiasm because most enthusiasms are outwith the defining esoteric knowledge.

The overlap between fanzine fandoms and con-running fandoms has done a lot of harm.