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Nice to meet you - have a large bar of chocolate.

Always room for one more. Have a chocolate chip cookie and a potted aloe.

What sort of things are you into?

I fully intend to write both sooner or later, but we'll see if it works out.

That sounds pretty fun. And hey, aliens that aren't basically humans with wacky hair and/or squiggly lines on their faces! That's always a plus.

I really liked Cowboys and Aliens. I honestly can't figure out why it wasn't more popular. It was a really fun movie.

I'm glad you like The Adventures of Laura Davidson. It's something of a recent idea, so it's not properly formed yet, so I'm glad it's coming out coherent now.

As for sci-fi and fantasy, I've seen good sci-fi with fantastic elements (Homestuck is a good example), and once or twice I've run across a reasonably seamless meshing of the two. (The title escapes me but I read a book as a child about an interplanetary coalition that developed supernatural powers and used them to keep planets on a natural developmental path.) What I have never seen, however, is a solid fantasy base with sci-fi applied well to it. So naturally I set out to fill in the perceived gap in the fictional library.

What I'm trying to say is I don't know if it can be done. I hope it can, but we'll just have to wait and see. In any event, I totally understand your reservation.

Unfortunately I wasn't around when you posted the survey, but I'm glad I got to read this all the same. It actually helped me make sense of some things I've been wondering about in fandom culture. As someone who entered fandom in 2009, before most of this new wave had set in, but was too young (in actual years and fandom terms) to really get it, it offered some sense to a confusing and at times contradictory perspective.

So, as I said before, a very interesting read! Thanks for sharing!

Your findings absolutely reflect my subjective experience as an older/longer-term participant in fandom.

I find it very interesting that you seem to say that while discussions on newer platforms like Tumblr occur "at a more rapid pace with less control over the thread of conversation" and are more easily radicalized, they're being treated with "a more academic, professional lexicon" that "lends gravitas and credence to the arguments being expounded."

This puts a finger squarely on what bugs me about this shift. The conversation about fandom has become shorter, faster, less thought-through and lovingly (if self-aggrandizingly) developed, and yet treated more seriously? That seems backwards! Co-opting these serious academic terms in this way at once over-inflates the importance of one's opinions of fanstuff and dilutes their usefulness for people who do want to have a thoughtful discourse or need to express that they have a psychological trigger.

Too much like srs bsns.

~Neshomeh has to leave now, might have more to say later.

As your newbie gift, have two cents, so you can put them into discussions later.

You've already been linked the important stuff, so, what're your fandoms?

- Tomash

I played this game and didn’t notice these soundtrack shenanigans at the time (although I did feel like the music added a lot to creating the world), so thank you for pointing them out!

Have a blackberry chocolate cake!

In addition to the Constitution, which has community rules, I would point out the FAQ for newbies: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:ForNewbies.

How did you hear about this place? What sorts of fandoms (if any) are you interested in?

And this is a really fascinating read! /goes to spread it around.

/passes you a Small White Package. It makes a great doorstop!

Anyway, have you read the Constitution and/or the Original Series yet? :> What are your favorite continua and/or missions?

(The problem seems to be that your link was in smart, curly quotes for some reason.)

Just. Ignore all of that. Clearly this is an argument not to post on mobile.

http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1276/1724”>here is a prettier one but the link is the same so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

... that I’m now officially a published fandom academic. If you were on the Board at the time I posted a survey asking people to discuss their fandom platform usage and their perceptions of certain terminology, here’s the writeup of that now!

Anyway that’s new for me, as well as the oodles of fanzines I’ve been writing for, what’s up with all of you?

Hello. Can I join your group?

. . . I could never expect anyone to reciprocate reviewing my stuff without the use of time travel.

—doctorlit should have gone to sleep twenty-eight minutes ago, but that doesn't prove Nesh right or anything

40k doesn't even try to HIDE that. I mean, have you SEEN the Navigator Houses? :-P

Warhammer 40,000 is clearly a massive crossover, and Harry Potter is a Tom Brown's School Days AU.