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eldabeRemember that book I recommended last week? The one I might have started harassing friends to read? (Sorry! Sort of!)
1. The ebook on sale for $2.99 right now! In a DRM-free format! Go go go!
2. Because the sequel is coming NEXT WEEK! *fanflail*
(3. There is also a two-chapter preview on the Tor site, but you shouldn't read it before you read the first book. There are MAJOR SPOILERS pretty much immediately.)
Moar lists!
1. It's flipped the fandom switch in my brain! That switch has a shoddy, unpredictable connection to the rest of my brain and I'm always a little startled when it trips. Generally, an active fandom really helps -- but I've searched tumblr and there's less than a dozen posts under the "After the Golden Age" tag.
2. So how do fandoms start anyway? We know that books tend to have smaller fandoms than movies or TV shows, except when they are long series's, but even then there is guarantee. It helps to have an easily-slashable set of dudes, which in a twisted, uncomfortable way makes it difficult to have fandoms centered around large casts of female characters. (Everyone can name exceptions to everything I'm saying, I know.) And After the Golden Age has a few guys that could be slashed, but we have no "darling*" over here. Fantasy/SF tends to have fandoms, which is totally understandable. They provide wolds to explore and play with. Actually, seeing a movie or a book with a fascinating setting and no squeals always makes me a little sad.
Has anyone figured out the golden equation for fandoms? Probably not. There's too many outside factors and pop-culture influences. Plus, fandoms come in lots of shapes and sizes. It's probably impossible to calculate.
*=Inception fandom's birthing moment was a single word that could be interpreted as slashy. The hotness of the two dudes involved did not hurt.
3. There is a canon couple. I ship them like the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I just want to talk about them forever. :)
4. Apparently books about superheroes is an actual sub-genre now? I find this cheering, as I've long been trying to remind people that comic books are a medium and superheroes are a genre.
5. I think L (my roommate and I) might just have our own quiet fandom of two, until it peters off. We've been texting each other names for our fancasting which is hilarious. I am the LAST person to make a fancast. I've also been sketching out some fic and IDK. What else do book fandoms do? Ooooh, I could write meta.
1. The ebook on sale for $2.99 right now! In a DRM-free format! Go go go!
2. Because the sequel is coming NEXT WEEK! *fanflail*
(3. There is also a two-chapter preview on the Tor site, but you shouldn't read it before you read the first book. There are MAJOR SPOILERS pretty much immediately.)
Moar lists!
1. It's flipped the fandom switch in my brain! That switch has a shoddy, unpredictable connection to the rest of my brain and I'm always a little startled when it trips. Generally, an active fandom really helps -- but I've searched tumblr and there's less than a dozen posts under the "After the Golden Age" tag.
2. So how do fandoms start anyway? We know that books tend to have smaller fandoms than movies or TV shows, except when they are long series's, but even then there is guarantee. It helps to have an easily-slashable set of dudes, which in a twisted, uncomfortable way makes it difficult to have fandoms centered around large casts of female characters. (Everyone can name exceptions to everything I'm saying, I know.) And After the Golden Age has a few guys that could be slashed, but we have no "darling*" over here. Fantasy/SF tends to have fandoms, which is totally understandable. They provide wolds to explore and play with. Actually, seeing a movie or a book with a fascinating setting and no squeals always makes me a little sad.
Has anyone figured out the golden equation for fandoms? Probably not. There's too many outside factors and pop-culture influences. Plus, fandoms come in lots of shapes and sizes. It's probably impossible to calculate.
*=Inception fandom's birthing moment was a single word that could be interpreted as slashy. The hotness of the two dudes involved did not hurt.
3. There is a canon couple. I ship them like the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I just want to talk about them forever. :)
4. Apparently books about superheroes is an actual sub-genre now? I find this cheering, as I've long been trying to remind people that comic books are a medium and superheroes are a genre.
5. I think L (my roommate and I) might just have our own quiet fandom of two, until it peters off. We've been texting each other names for our fancasting which is hilarious. I am the LAST person to make a fancast. I've also been sketching out some fic and IDK. What else do book fandoms do? Ooooh, I could write meta.
