Thoughts on fandom

I am utterly thankfu and grateful to all those fans that go to public events, conventions, premiers, and so on, and report back, with anedocts, pictures and what have you. Many fans will never be able to go to these places, see the actors and actresses they're fannish about, because they live in other countries, because it'd be too expensive, because their health does not allow it. What have you.

I wouldn't approve of fans keeping a bad behaviour in such public events, but there are degrees of bad behaviour and degrees of reaction.

Reporting fans to people outside fandom should happen only in the case of serious instances: physical harm, theft, stalker behaviour and such criminal acts. Everything else speaks of rightneousness to me, and childish ways of making oneself noticeable to TPTB.

I'm starting to NOT like fandom at all.
And to finally believe that never was Fandom to begin with.

SPN: new comm and a general fandom poll

taken from vaznetti:

spn_xx

"SPN_XX: The women of Supernatural fanfic challenge invites stories featuring any of the following:
Female characters from the Supernatural television series or the related Origins comics
Original female character(s) in an SPN setting
Crossovers featuring female characters from SPN in the setting of another source text
Crossovers featuring female characters from another source text in an SPN setting"

All info about prompts and deadlines in the userinfo page :)

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In lights of recent events in fandom in general, here's a poll that tries to gauge fans ideas about fans reporting other fans:
http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/667626.html