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.)
I enjoy looking at other people's art more for book fandoms, strangely, because for fandoms that start in a visual area - anime, film, live-TV, whatever - I'm always comparing to the original and using that as the sole determiner of how much I like the art. All my book fandoms are British or American. I generally prefer vids from games and anime (Japanese original) to live-TV and film (almost all UK and US original). Apart from that, no real differences.
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.)
No real changes.
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?
Read and written it. The source culture... hm. There are some fandoms in which it's quite common to see one of the male characters in a slash pairing being unduly feminised; in my experience this has been more common in anime and JRPG fandom than in Western film, live-TV and book fandom, but I'd call it a tendency rather than anything stronger. There seems to be more AU in TV fandom. As well as where pretty boys abide, there's a trend to write more slash for fandoms that contain few realized female characters, but that factor isn't really determined by source culture, I think.
Do you personally approach it differently/have different expectations for how it's depicted in fan works depending on the culture? If so, in what ways?
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Date: 2010-09-06 04:34 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? (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.)
I enjoy looking at other people's art more for book fandoms, strangely, because for fandoms that start in a visual area - anime, film, live-TV, whatever - I'm always comparing to the original and using that as the sole determiner of how much I like the art. All my book fandoms are British or American. I generally prefer vids from games and anime (Japanese original) to live-TV and film (almost all UK and US original). Apart from that, no real differences.
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.)
No real changes.
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?
Read and written it. The source culture... hm. There are some fandoms in which it's quite common to see one of the male characters in a slash pairing being unduly feminised; in my experience this has been more common in anime and JRPG fandom than in Western film, live-TV and book fandom, but I'd call it a tendency rather than anything stronger. There seems to be more AU in TV fandom. As well as where pretty boys abide, there's a trend to write more slash for fandoms that contain few realized female characters, but that factor isn't really determined by source culture, I think.
Do you personally approach it differently/have different expectations for how it's depicted in fan works depending on the culture? If so, in what ways?
I try not to.
And I'm a girl. :p