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The participation in these shared fics (the act of recommending fics to friends, discussing them with friends, or using fic-specific references) is part of how a certain community identity as well as an identity of self, or a specific fan-identity, is built and acquired. As these modes of identity are fed back into a larger public space, and external factors such as real-life occurrences (e.g. the recent high-profile debates over gay marriage and over the implied homophobia of certain slashers on LiveJournal), changes in the original source text and canon (e.g. when J.K. Rowling holds online chats with her fans), and additional new fics come into play, the fandom as a community is in a constant process of change which in turn feeds back into the various modes of identity. This makes for an interesting separation between a personal sense of being a fan versus being part of a fandom. When Dinah restricts her selfdefinition by explaining she is “not really such a fan,” she does not mean that she is not a Harry Potter fan, nor that she does not follow the external information or rumors about Harry Potter productions, movies, and book developments. She means that she does not read a large part of the slash fanfiction put forth in the Harry Potter fandom, which are “famous fics.” As she cannot see a Harry/Draco pairing, she misses out on one of the most common pairings and a large part of the common readings in the HP fandom. She cannot be as much part of the larger Harry Potter communities, but has 94
found friends through her activities as an author at an archive, which organizes chats. On the other hand, being a lurker does not equal a sense of oneself as outsider. Though Eiko lurks in the HP fandom, because she feels that there is not much she can contribute that would be original or worthwhile other fans’ time, she feels no less a HP fan for that. By contrast, in popslash, she was not a fan of the source medium or the music groups in question, but rather became interested in the music after she read fanfiction that she liked. In that sense, she was part of the popslash online fandom, before she ever became part of the actual pop music fandom. Keeping both of these views in mind, I asked Barb in an interview on her personal position: SY: So what do you think about this “being a personal slash-fan” versus the community? Barb: […]You’ve got people who take the text, and read the text and read what Rowling says, and who don’t read the fic, who don’t read the meta [meta-text analysis & discussions in fandom] ….but they’re still fans. And I think they’re a different kind of fan: Unless they’re talking about the meta on their own with other people in real life, it ends up being a shallower interpretation. SY: So about Dinah and Eiko’s views on this? Barb: Their views make sense…I’m a very dedicated lurker. I’ll occasionally delurk if someone asks a question no one has answered yet. […] I don’t participate in Harry Potter: I’ll watch it, I observe it, but I won’t post, I won’t crit [critique]; I’ll read what other people write and every once in a while I might give some feedback. SY: Do you feel as part of it? As part of the community? Barb: I don’t think I’m part of the Harry Potter fandom community, and I’m comfortable with that. 95
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Table of Contents I. Introduction..
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more stories, and sharing funny tid
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yet understandable enough, to intro
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justifiable, and believable. 1 It i
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well as the act of worship (activel
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This leads Maygra 2 , a prominent f
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the fandoms are well-known. Slash-
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equality and beyond social stereoty
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uses his authorial position to loos
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fandoms, and are 2) people outside
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that writing in and for Anthropolog
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in ethnographic narrative, which ha
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very analytically thereafter. Jenki
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web. In a way the nature of convers
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affected not simply by the object o
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This is emphasized by how they view
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participation: In order to limit se
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order to find an earlier post, one
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academic audience might find such a
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linked, text with the connections o
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“Internet fandom” is what essen
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C. Mindset How can I map out this m
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IV. Interplay of modes - or conclus
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e used toward understanding multipl
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V. Appendices A. Appendix A: Fandom
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SG-1 Tokyo Babylon Weiss Kreuz Wolf
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ANC angst angstfic anime anime musi
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difference between good and bad fic
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C&C canon casual fan, casual CBFFAs
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criticism constructive feedback con
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drabble are based on pre-existing s
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activities. Science fiction fandom
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or to the actual act of turning a m
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GWLBWLB H sugar and spice. We are n
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LEO, L.E.O. lemon lemonade lime lis
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meta-MST MEverse MFEO, M.F.E.O. mir
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Regardless, if a fan calls you a mu
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ose OT OT OT3 otaku The filk equiva
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Continuum PWP RACC RACMX Ratboy rat
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SCA, SCAs schmoop self-infliction s
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"degeneration" of smarm into near-s
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them all, let alone finish them! Na
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al Couple Unnamed Faction Unusual S
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VI. Bibliography Works Consulted Pr
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1997 “Culture in the Plural”. M
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