fandom's

Coraline, meanwhile, was genre fiction fandom's secret success.

Happy Birthday to Us, Part 6 2009

What this means is that in the comments to this post we are going to (1) squee over sc (2) squee over sc (3) speculate loudly about exactly what impact the fact that the protagonists were two men of color might have had in fandom's complete and utter dismissal of the show. comments will include screencaps, spoilers, cracktasticness, and lots of pointed thoughts on race and fandom.

live action meta. nantahala 2010

Apparently, this year of all years, the Hugo shortlist kind of sucks and it's all fandom's fault for being willing to acccept mediocrity; and SF authors shouldn't submit their work before it's "perfect," whinge so much about how awful their work is in public*, or admit to their doubts about their own ability.

for the life of me I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise jmeadows 2009

The Hugo shortlist indicates the books and authors thought of most highly by fandom's core at that moment in time; whether or not that is of any value to an individual reader outside of the scene is something that only they can determine by trial and error.

MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles 2009

Comic fandom's rarely held to be a welcoming place for girls.

Boing Boing 2009

And I think it is a huge stretch of the fandom's active imagination to think they will ever be happy.

Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009

ETA: a link from eldritchhobbit: Remembering a First Lady of Fandom: One of fandom's first ladies is no longer with us.

September 15th, 2008 eldritchhobbit 2008

Great characters in interlocked settings with great plots and great writing tend not to be fandom's babies, in part because they're hard to write and in part because slash fandom, at least, does best with great, or at least beloved, characters, full stop.

TFV and me (mostly TFV) on fannish AUs hradzka 2010

Already tiring of the fandom's minority complainers out there - no movie, and no performance is without flaws, but this is the best book adaptation I've ever seen.

‘Twilight’ Continues To Break Records, Sequel Officially Confirmed » MTV Movies Blog 2008

Some ten years after the original game's release, though, it's fairly clear that the fandom's evolved -- mutated, even -- into something that has very little to do with the core gameplay experience.

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