Is fandom “entitled”? A history of fan-made material
Are fans who wanted to make amateur films as “entitled” to make them as pros are?
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Molly Jackson: Many Faces of Fandoms
Fandoms can be a wonderful thing. People who are drawn together by love of a particular series, be it written/filmed/drawn/created in any way, can and have banded together to do some amazing things. I’ve written about how my fellow Browncoats (a.k.a. Firefly fans) and I have raised money for Equality Now. Supernatural fans have come…
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Tweeks: More D23 2015 Adventures
As promised, here is Part 2 of our adventures at D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. In this video we take a look at some of our favorite things (Harrison Ford, Chris Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Teen Beach Movie, etc) and ask some expo-goers what their favorite things have been over the weekend. There’s also…
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Emily S. Whitten: G.I.S.H.W.H.E.S. – A Culture of Positive Fandom
This weekend, on the way back from the wedding of one of my longtime best friends, I took a loooong train ride home. Naturally, I was riding in high style, in a Deadpool shirt and my handmade Deadpool symbol earrings. During the trip, I happened to be standing in the Amtrak café car line when…
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Tweeks: Cosplay Dreams
One of our favorite parts of attending cons is watching the cosplayers. We know that not everyone is a fan, and that’s too bad, because it’s such a creative way to show fandom. Though maybe after watching the documentary, Cosplay Dreams 3D, those who haven’t embraced cosplayers will. The film focuses on cosplay celebrities as…
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Tweeks: Fangirl Termonology Guide #1: Shipping
Editor’s Note: The Tweeks went on a lovely vacation this week and were unable to have a video ready. So, rather than let them off the hook and fully enjoy their vacay, I asked them to write a little something. And boy am I glad I did! ~Adriane Nash Sometimes it’s hard to explain to…
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To See Or Not To See, That Is The Question
So, as you may have heard, first the scripts from the first five episodes, and then a work print of the actual first episode of Doctor Who leaked last week. And those fans with access to the internet (also known as “all fans”) all felt like Pandora, wondering whether or not they should take just…
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Fandom, DON’T BE THIS GUY!
Via Dork Tower by John Kovalic.
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Dennis O’Neil: Friendly Fandom Family
“I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.” Groucho Marx I didn’t know about organized comics fandom until 1964 when I interviewed Roy Thomas for a Missouri newspaper, and that was only a month or two before, under Roy’s aegis, I became a comics professional. And I wonder:…
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Emily S. Whitten: Fandom Is Beautiful
I’ve seen fandom do beautiful things. In point of fact, I can see because fandom (and some great friends) did a beautiful thing. And as we approach Thanksgiving, I wanted to revisit the story of something I’m thankful for every day. You see, I have a degenerative, incurable eye disease called keratoconus. It’s relatively rare,…
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‘FlashForward’ fans take cancellation lying down, and want you lying down too
Fans of ABC’s cancelled drama FlashForward are planning to stage protests at ABC’s offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta this Thursday. Flashmobs (sorry) will lie down on the ground in front of the various ABC offices for two minutes and 17 seconds, in honor of the blackouts that happen in the…
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Happy 80th birthday, Fandom!
Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor.com reminds us that on December 11, 1929, the world’s first club devoted to science fiction met for the first time in a Harlem apartment. They called themselves the Scienceers and within three years would count Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz among their members, along with the original Ray Palmer. Years…
