Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com

of canon, a term which refers to the events, plotlines and character
developments within the source material. Canon is often juxtaposed to
“fanon,” or developments established within fandom, and there is a complex
and subtle tension between these two concepts, which will be discussed
further on in the sections dealing with fanfiction-reading and –writing. One
can summarize her activities as a fan as obsessively watching the work in
question, accumulating collectibles, and roleplaying. Ka will watch the show
or series to the point of quoting lines and answering trivia questions; she will
collect paraphernalia for the sake of having them rather than because she
wants to use them. She gives the example of buying “Sailor Moon [a very
popular Japanese anime] underwear intended for five year-old girls and
stuffing them in a drawer somewhere without ever taking them out of the
package.” Ka does roleplaying, though never a character already existent in
the universe. Rather, she has been playing a unique character with other
unique characters in the Star Trek universe for a long period of time. She
explains, “in these sims [short for simulations], a character with any kind of
connection to a character appearing in the series] has a kind of newbie aura to
it, and any characters directly lifted are completely rejected.” All fanfiction
she has ever read is anime-based.
If you want me to draw any conclusions from this stuff, I'd
say that my brand of fandom is to rabidly pursue the canon
of the series, and then use that to act out unsatisfied wishes
for the franchise that are as completely independent of the
stories already presented as possible. Because thinking of it
like that helps explain to me why I hate yaoi/slash and
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