Holy Post-It notes, Batman!! That's amazing! I bet you would ace any course/class on the book 😂 Also, what a gorgeous cover!
Yeah, that's a very good question about fandoms quieting down. My main fandom for several years was The Strange Case of Starship Iris, and it's a super small fandom whose activity is very driven by whether there are episodes currently being released. (At the moment, it's in a lull between seasons 2 and 3, and has been since 2021). I was still happy to be fannish about it in the 'quiet periods' - if anything it was nice to focus on fanworks during that time and have the space to develop some headcanons - but I know a lot of people found the feast-or-famine activity levels to be tough. Especially if you're trying to run, like, an event and people aren't engaged enough to take part, you know?
I see Tumblr posts about how we have really short attention spans as fans these days and people just kind of descend on a fandom, CONSUUUUUME and then leave, which makes me feel guilty about moving from fandom enthusiasm to fandom enthusiasm ^^; But then, given that media is available on demand these days in a way it wasn't decades ago (at least unless the streaming platforms take it down...), shouldn't fandoms be longer-lasting? 🤔 I guess it depends on how much critical mass you have - since fandom activity kind of begets fandom activity. But also some fandoms just seem to go and go - the Inception fandom has been really long-lived considering it's one film!
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Date: 2023-05-24 09:20 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's a very good question about fandoms quieting down. My main fandom for several years was The Strange Case of Starship Iris, and it's a super small fandom whose activity is very driven by whether there are episodes currently being released. (At the moment, it's in a lull between seasons 2 and 3, and has been since 2021). I was still happy to be fannish about it in the 'quiet periods' - if anything it was nice to focus on fanworks during that time and have the space to develop some headcanons - but I know a lot of people found the feast-or-famine activity levels to be tough. Especially if you're trying to run, like, an event and people aren't engaged enough to take part, you know?
I see Tumblr posts about how we have really short attention spans as fans these days and people just kind of descend on a fandom, CONSUUUUUME and then leave, which makes me feel guilty about moving from fandom enthusiasm to fandom enthusiasm ^^; But then, given that media is available on demand these days in a way it wasn't decades ago (at least unless the streaming platforms take it down...), shouldn't fandoms be longer-lasting? 🤔 I guess it depends on how much critical mass you have - since fandom activity kind of begets fandom activity. But also some fandoms just seem to go and go - the Inception fandom has been really long-lived considering it's one film!