There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
Margaret AtwoodTag: writers on-writing similes authors disappointment epigrams fandom
There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.
Joss WhedonTag: humour fantasy fandom fanfiction
We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
Jerry GarciaTag: fandom grateful-dead
When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn’t bother with the pretenses. They’re just there to have a good time. The second difference is the dress code— the ensembles at a fan convention tend to be considerably more novel.
Jim ButcherTag: work fandom harry-dresden
You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.
Simon CheshireFandom is less like being in love than like being in love with love.
Michael Joseph-GrossTag: fandom
Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest.
Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.
The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D
Sharyn McCrumbTag: imitation literary-criticism fandom fanfiction
My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that this was how I would act if I ever saw you.'
'I have the same thing, but with Tom Stoppard,' I said.
'You'd kill Tom Stoppard?'
'Not at all. I promised myself many years ago that I would throw myself at his feet and scream "I'm not worthy!" if I ever met him, so now if we're ever at the same party or something, I have to be at pains to avoid him. It would be undignified, you see—for him and for me.
Tag: humor hatred fandom awkward
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
Henry JenkinsTag: fandom media-studies
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