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This is a continuation of the previous discussion post...
So let's say your campaign has worked; now your friend is superexcited, can recite the entire lite cream cheese speech, has favorite episodes, has put the 2AM reruns on Syfy (or local equivalent) on hir TiVo (or local equivalent). And now you want to try for the big leagues...you want to bring hir into fandom. Like, full-on membership: belonging to CAPSLOCK communities, obsessively collecting icons for every mood, joining multifandom RPGs, ship-manifesto-writing, fic-writing, vid-making, squeeful-excess fandom.
Where do you start? With particularly artistically perfect fanworks? A soft intro with an LJ and a membership in some nonthreatening comms (like![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
xfiles or a rewatch comm)? A whole bunch of crackfic or crackvids to burn the mind into submission?
Highbrow or lowbrow? Softball or hardball? How do you make a fangirl (or boy, or none-of-the-above)?
(PSST DON'T FORGET: SQUEEFEST ON WEDNESDAY!)
So let's say your campaign has worked; now your friend is superexcited, can recite the entire lite cream cheese speech, has favorite episodes, has put the 2AM reruns on Syfy (or local equivalent) on hir TiVo (or local equivalent). And now you want to try for the big leagues...you want to bring hir into fandom. Like, full-on membership: belonging to CAPSLOCK communities, obsessively collecting icons for every mood, joining multifandom RPGs, ship-manifesto-writing, fic-writing, vid-making, squeeful-excess fandom.
Where do you start? With particularly artistically perfect fanworks? A soft intro with an LJ and a membership in some nonthreatening comms (like
xfiles or a rewatch comm)? A whole bunch of crackfic or crackvids to burn the mind into submission? Highbrow or lowbrow? Softball or hardball? How do you make a fangirl (or boy, or none-of-the-above)?
(PSST DON'T FORGET: SQUEEFEST ON WEDNESDAY!)
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There's a lot of specialized terminology in this fandom! Probably because we are OLD. But generally folks tend to get divided into Mulderists and Scullyists, based on who they emotionally sympathise/identify with.
The terminology is fascinating to me! Mmm, fandom subcultures.
I suspect I am a Scullyist, then, although I am also fond of Mulder.