"Fandom" vs "RL" friends
Dec. 2nd, 2010 05:34 pmOne of the interesting things about reading Fandom Secrets daily is that there tend to be a lot of evolving conversations scattered among the secrets. Most of them are shipwars, but there are also other conversations. Via the medium of FS, people are hashing out their feelings on different topics. Just in anonymous, meme-type-image format.
One of the ongoing conversations in the last week or so has been about whether people feel closer to their "Fandom" or "RL" friends. Which is a conversation that I just can't relate to at all. Because, while I remember a time when fandom was something that only happened in my internet life, that time was a very long time ago. While not all of my friends are actively in fandom, or even in transformative fandom in particular, just about all of them are at least fandom adjacent. And while I haven't met all of my flist and droll in person, I've met a relatively large fraction and would love to meet any of those I haven't met.
Fandom is just a very active facet of my day-to-day life. I mean...![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
damned_colonial and I talked about bandom slash in the lunchroom at work today. I don't even know how I would DRAW lines between "fandom" and "RL" friends. I can draw a line between "fandom" and "non-fandom" friends, sure, but that would be a really unproductive line that would cut through the middle of groups of people I normally spend time with together.
I suspect that this is true of most of the people in my general-purpose cross-journal access circle things given that they are largely friends and friends-of-friends, but I've gotten to be curious. So, a poll:
Please feel free to elaborate in comments.
ETA: Aaahhh I had to edit this like 500 times I am never using the rich text editor again in my life.
One of the ongoing conversations in the last week or so has been about whether people feel closer to their "Fandom" or "RL" friends. Which is a conversation that I just can't relate to at all. Because, while I remember a time when fandom was something that only happened in my internet life, that time was a very long time ago. While not all of my friends are actively in fandom, or even in transformative fandom in particular, just about all of them are at least fandom adjacent. And while I haven't met all of my flist and droll in person, I've met a relatively large fraction and would love to meet any of those I haven't met.
Fandom is just a very active facet of my day-to-day life. I mean...
damned_colonial and I talked about bandom slash in the lunchroom at work today. I don't even know how I would DRAW lines between "fandom" and "RL" friends. I can draw a line between "fandom" and "non-fandom" friends, sure, but that would be a really unproductive line that would cut through the middle of groups of people I normally spend time with together.I suspect that this is true of most of the people in my general-purpose cross-journal access circle things given that they are largely friends and friends-of-friends, but I've gotten to be curious. So, a poll:
Poll #5254 Are people in fandom real?
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20
Do you draw a line between your fandom and RL friends?
Where have you met most of your fandom friends?
General age-ish?
(The killer question... I don't judge) WHO DO YOU LIKE BETTER?
Gratuitous ticky boxes
View Answers
Llamas
9 (50.0%)
Daffodils
7 (38.9%)
Canoodling
12 (66.7%)
More ticky boxes please
11 (61.1%)
Please feel free to elaborate in comments.
ETA: Aaahhh I had to edit this like 500 times I am never using the rich text editor again in my life.
