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[sherlockian]

I want to point at this yuletide kefluffle and sad face that it didn't happen two weeks ago. Because sleepfighter and I kept using the concept of "performative fandom" when we were talking about "The Limits of Online Fandom" at Yaoicon, and this is kind of a perfect example of how what one group of people can do in fandom is similar, but subtly different from another group-- how concepts of fandom change based on where you are, and what you're doing.

I really want to make a post about the whole idea of performative fandom (and the fact that birchsalt's list made me BZUH over her inclusion of Percy Jackson until I realized there were 25-30 Percy Jackson fics posted on FF.N yesterday alone-- if that doesn't make my performative bias obvious, I don't know what does), but I need to get dressed and go to work.

Discuss.

Comments

[jetamors]

You should definitely make a post about performative fandom! Especially since I'm not really sure what you mean by performative in this context.

[sherlockian]

Hm. I think it boils down to the fact that I think fandom is as much what one does as it is the community. Especially since so much of fandom happens on the internet, fans have to make specific decisions about what sort of fan they are. And what is recognizable as "fan-activity' is not always, or-- even when you're performing the same activity, because of the choices being made about where you perform that activity, how you perform it and who you perform it with, your fannishness is subject to scrutiny or judgment.