Subject: I think we've got three main groups.
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Posted on: 2013-06-28 23:55:00 UTC

The first group, often oldbies, are LotR fans, generally into fantasy literature, tend to get things like Mercedes Lackey and Discworld and Diana Wynne Jones and Anne McCaffrey. I know I've felt left behind by the moving away from those fandoms before, and, though this is probably partly my own thin-skinned-ness, I've occasionally felt slighted by the way people react to LotR fannishness and high fantasy enthusiasm by seemingly putting it down as snobbery.

The second group I'd call middlebies, though that's an oversimplification and not entirely correct for other reasons. I'd say Miah's post here captures that pretty well. People, in short, who are neither old fantasy literature enthusiasts, nor in touch with the gamer and anime fans who seem to be our third group.

...er, the third group isn't exactly newbies, but I don't have a better name. I'd characterize this group as being more into newer fandoms, fandoms that are integral to their experiences as... er, fans, as LotR and Discworld and Redwall were to others of us. The ones that stand out to me in immediate memory are Halo, Bionicle, Hetalia... er, and others. I may think of more at some point, but you guys probably know what I mean.

There is a looooot of overlap here - I'm not thinking these are exclusive groups! That's just the simplest way of generalizing the "generations" in the community that I can think of.

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