The post is here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/musesfool/402068.html
Glad you found it interesting.
I find that the vast majority of fic people DO limit fandom to fic writers and readers. There is canon, fanon and reviews, nothing more.
I find this attitude really fucking annoying. Maybe because I came into online fandom through discussion newsgroups rather than fic, but there is a lot more to fandom than fanfic. If Fandom-At-Large is a city, Fic is a large neighborhood group of neighborhoods, perhaps analgous to the island of Manhattan for the City of New York, but there are other boroughs and other ways of expressing fannish love.
Not to mention those lurker/readers, we always seem to forget about.
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Glad you found it interesting.
I find that the vast majority of fic people DO limit fandom to fic writers and readers. There is canon, fanon and reviews, nothing more.
I find this attitude really fucking annoying. Maybe because I came into online fandom through discussion newsgroups rather than fic, but there is a lot more to fandom than fanfic. If Fandom-At-Large is a city, Fic is a large neighborhood group of neighborhoods, perhaps analgous to the island of Manhattan for the City of New York, but there are other boroughs and other ways of expressing fannish love.
Not to mention those lurker/readers, we always seem to forget about.