rheaitis

we say a lot about leaving comments, but the you've got kudos mail is such a blessing to my day, especially at times i'm not writing with any regularity (so, like 80% of the time).
In the last couple weeks, someone called Sistermine (whose profile is woefully shorn of details) has kudosed twenty-seven of my fic, primarily for Renault-fic, and I'm just so full of love for them. ♥ ♥ ♥

 gonna go talk to my guide about next chapter, a good two-thirds of which is about how fandom is seen as immoral. the man asked wheter star wars was fanfic of star trek last time, when i was explaining the beginnings of modern transformative fandom to him, that's how bad he is about pop-culture.

hold me.

ETA: I can write fic, and I can write meta, but when I try to write meta about meta I apparently slip into writing meta instead.

Day 14: In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom.

I think fandom needs to be intersectional and federated. cesperanza's entry for today discusses the technical side of this far better than I could, so that, basically.

On the other side, I think fandom is deeply and historically Western, in ways that have led to incredible idiocies in the past (RaceFail, yo). In part this is because the Global South doesn't do fanfic etc in the same ways; in India at least the fannish impulse for films and books mostly discharges itself in the same way as it does for sports: fanclubs and events and cheering and legit temples I kid you not. Every Indian fanwriter/artist I've found online has been middle-class and upwards, and found their way into fandom through a love of Western sources.

(This is not to say that there aren't fanworks being produced in India, but they're not (by and large) locked into fandom in any recognisable fashion. One of the coolest remake-groups functions out of a tiny, ex-industrial town in Maharashtra, where they take Hollywood and Bollywood films and adapt them to their own circumstances: their best-known is a Superman adaptation.)

But I digress. I would love for fandom to be more accessible, and OTW's translation movement is a very good beginning to which I wish I'd contributed more. But also a space for fandom in other cultures and languages, which is one of those things that tumblr was really good for, because you could just go through the tags and not have to know the people involved, because a shared love for Bollywood or Indian history or (worse) mythology doesn't actually indicate that you'll like each other. Which... brings me back to the need for federated fandom, I guess.