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For both of these fandoms Eiko frequents LiveJournals as well as web
archives (both big and small). In terms of official sites, she will visit the
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She does not subscribe to Mailing Lists
nor does she “watch” communities (a term used on LJ for actively subscribing
to community journals and putting them on one’s friends list), but she will
visit some LiveJournal sites regardless. Often she does not visit official
communities for HP, but will rather go to Maya’s friend list (Maya is a
prolific writer in the Potterverse, the affectionate name given the Harry Potter
slash universe). This is very much a community in itself, she explained to me,
as all of the HP people are drawn together there. A friends list becomes a
community in that way, even though it is not nominally a community account
(i.e. one journal to which multiple members have posting rights).
Eiko is actively involved in a couple of fandoms of Japanese pop
divas. These fandoms mainly interact through Bulletin Boards, and Eiko
participates in the discussions about these pop stars. Topics include what these
stars have been doing recently, and how fans would like to see them evolve in
terms of music and style. For the all-female group MAX, there used to be a
fem-slash following, i.e. a group of fans who would slash the women of the
band in various pairings, but this fandom went underground once the band
members got computers and went online. Some of the fem-slash fans were
concerned that MAX members would find these fanfics and become upset. In
terms of temporality, the peak of this fandom was at a time with less
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