In what ways (if any), for you personally, do your fannish practices change depending on the source culture of the material you're fanning on?
I don't think it changes at all. The way I relate to fannish texts don't change by what culture it's from. My fannish practices can change depending on the nature of the source (for example, I'm not likely to write or seek out fanfic for a book) or the quality of the source (if there are holes in the plot/worldbuilding I want fic to fill them out!), but not culture. As for cons, like I said before, I've only ever been to events in Japan, but I would gladly go to events in the US or UK or something if I happened to be in that country.
in what ways, if any, has your fannish practices changed over your time in fandom?
My fanning have mostly changed as a result of change in fanning platform. I have fanned by e-mail only way back when, on certain fanfic archives, on internet forums, and for the last few years pretty exclusively on LJ. Though I guess none of that has changed the way I fan, and neither have the source material. I've always sought out gen fanfic and contributed mostly with meta, squee and short gen ficlets. But it's true that it took many years for me to realize that the "amv" phenomenon existed in Western TV fandom as well - I used to think only anime fandom made music vids.
And, naturally, though I've never been involved with scanlation or subbing, translating stuff from Japanese to share is a very specific type of fanning that I only do with a Japanese-language source text, and only in the last few years after I learned enough Japanese.
Are you interested in/have any experience with/in slash/Boys Love/yaoi/ m/m etc.? If yes, do you notice a difference in how it is approached/explored depending on the source culture of the material?
No, I'm pretty much a gen fan. And on that front, one thing that I have noticed is that there seems to be more good gen stories in Western TV fandoms than in anime fandoms.
I would make comparisons between yaoi and slash in Japanese fandom (in Japanese) and Western fandom (in English), because I do notice differences, but you only ask about source culture, not fandom culture, and I don't have all that much experience anyway, so I'll leave it.
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Date: 2010-08-27 02:39 pm (UTC)In what ways (if any), for you personally, do your fannish practices change depending on the source culture of the material you're fanning on?
I don't think it changes at all. The way I relate to fannish texts don't change by what culture it's from. My fannish practices can change depending on the nature of the source (for example, I'm not likely to write or seek out fanfic for a book) or the quality of the source (if there are holes in the plot/worldbuilding I want fic to fill them out!), but not culture. As for cons, like I said before, I've only ever been to events in Japan, but I would gladly go to events in the US or UK or something if I happened to be in that country.
in what ways, if any, has your fannish practices changed over your time in fandom?
My fanning have mostly changed as a result of change in fanning platform. I have fanned by e-mail only way back when, on certain fanfic archives, on internet forums, and for the last few years pretty exclusively on LJ. Though I guess none of that has changed the way I fan, and neither have the source material. I've always sought out gen fanfic and contributed mostly with meta, squee and short gen ficlets. But it's true that it took many years for me to realize that the "amv" phenomenon existed in Western TV fandom as well - I used to think only anime fandom made music vids.
And, naturally, though I've never been involved with scanlation or subbing, translating stuff from Japanese to share is a very specific type of fanning that I only do with a Japanese-language source text, and only in the last few years after I learned enough Japanese.
Are you interested in/have any experience with/in slash/Boys Love/yaoi/ m/m etc.? If yes, do you notice a difference in how it is approached/explored depending on the source culture of the material?
No, I'm pretty much a gen fan. And on that front, one thing that I have noticed is that there seems to be more good gen stories in Western TV fandoms than in anime fandoms.
I would make comparisons between yaoi and slash in Japanese fandom (in Japanese) and Western fandom (in English), because I do notice differences, but you only ask about source culture, not fandom culture, and I don't have all that much experience anyway, so I'll leave it.