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? (e.g. do you watch more music vids for anime, do you read/write particular kinds of fic for western shows, do you seek out cons for only certain types of fandoms, etc.) The more specific the examples, the better.
When I watched anime I watched a few music vids, but find I watch more made vids now made from western shows (television series specifically.) I read/write slash across all fandoms, but don't produce any other type of fan work aside from an occasional icon. I have not attended any cons, although the ones I have considered were anime/manga cons.
Semi-related to the above question, in what ways, if any, has your fannish practices changed over your time in fandom? (both in general over the years you've been in fandom and in specific fandoms. ) And have these changes at all coincided with differences in source culture? (eg for western fandoms, you've always just watched/read fic w/out much change over time but with Japanese fandom, you started watching anime then moved on to music vids then progressed to helping scanlate manga because you went on to learn Japanese, etc.)
I don't think my fannish activities change much due to source culture. I started out in an anime fandom and before I'd actually read the anime. Then I read the anime, watched music vids and obtained some scanalated manga, and started to purchase manga and doujinshi. I learned some very basic Japanese, what I'd call fangirl Japanese. I don't know if it constitutes fannish activity, but I enjoy movies in Japanese and Chinese, I have also followed a Korean "soap opera" type television show.
In Western fandoms I began with book fandom, both reading and writing. I read the source material before I began fannish activity. (This was also pre-anime.) As I felt I'd exhausted the supply of stories or the quality of writing slipped in one fandom I moved on to another.
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When I watched anime I watched a few music vids, but find I watch more made vids now made from western shows (television series specifically.) I read/write slash across all fandoms, but don't produce any other type of fan work aside from an occasional icon. I have not attended any cons, although the ones I have considered were anime/manga cons.
Semi-related to the above question, in what ways, if any, has your fannish practices changed over your time in fandom? (both in general over the years you've been in fandom and in specific fandoms. ) And have these changes at all coincided with differences in source culture? (eg for western fandoms, you've always just watched/read fic w/out much change over time but with Japanese fandom, you started watching anime then moved on to music vids then progressed to
helping scanlate manga because you went on to learn Japanese, etc.)
I don't think my fannish activities change much due to source culture. I started out in an anime fandom and before I'd actually read the anime. Then I read the anime, watched music vids and obtained some scanalated manga, and started to purchase manga and doujinshi. I learned some very basic Japanese, what I'd call fangirl Japanese. I don't know if it constitutes fannish activity, but I enjoy movies in Japanese and Chinese, I have also followed a Korean "soap opera" type television show.
In Western fandoms I began with book fandom, both reading and writing. I read the source material before I began fannish activity. (This was also pre-anime.) As I felt I'd exhausted the supply of stories or the quality of writing slipped in one fandom I moved on to another.