Member of a traumagenic–catharigenic, semi-structural DID system (host: @LoganDark)
Feral female Flareon, somewhat kinky but terminally panromantic towards other ferals~
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begging yall to stop using the word "fandom" when you mean "culture" lol. "fandom" to me is consumptive, "culture" is creative. like, furry is a culture, disney adults is a fandom, fanfic is a little of both.
I use "community" myself and I never could really put my finger on why I disliked the term "fandom" so much outside of it sounding too singular in purpose; a representation of a very narrow field of interests, but this hits the nail right on the head
we agree for sure that there needs to be a distinction here
we're not sure we want to retreat from the word "fandom"
the creative thing came first and capitalism has been successfully enclosing it, by bits and pieces over the decades
we're not sure what the best way to call attention to that is
yeah, i think "fandom is consumptive" is imposing a connotation that doesn't really exist
although FUCK the fandom dot com wikis. their vision is a purely consumptive one, without even room for community. but that's corporate greed trying to enclose the commons, it's not coming from the people.
oh yeah, I still refer to them as Wikia just out of spite (and I have the redirect extension installed)
been thinking about the usage of the phrase "furry fandom" a lot lately, well said
I get where you're coming from with this, but the thing that always stands out to me with "furry fandom" is that "fandom" meant something really different a few decades ago when furry was new. The sci-fi and fantasy fandoms that furry grew out of had a creative culture more like the modern furry scene at the time - early furry fanzines with comics, art, etc. look a lot like sci-fi and fantasy fanzines of the late 70s. Specific media fandoms like, eg, Star Trek definitely existed, but it feels like "fandom" as a whole meant something way more expansive and creative.
Not that I think other people have to like it, but tbh I kind of like how "fandom" in "furry fandom" is reaching back to something that felt a little healthier and more interesting and keeps it alive a little.
hmmm, i like this take on it. i'm not gonna link what inspired this but it v pointedly painted furries and corpo media projects like marvel movies as two sides of the culture coin and i think i was a little Incensed when i chosted this, lmao.
