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[fansplaining]

Episode 209: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 17

In the newest (17th!) installment of the “Ask Fansplaining Anything” series, Flourish and Elizabeth read a mix of responses to recent episodes and fresh queries. Topics discussed include communal versus solitary fandom, how the “BNF” role shifts when global fandoms rely on fan translations, asexuality and aromanticism in fic, their (EXTREMELY MIXED) experiences running surveys, and, importantly, AMC’s Interview with the Vampire.

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[articulately-composed]

We all know that homestuck never leaves you. Once you’re in deep, it’s stuck in your brain forever like a parasite that needs you alive to replicate, so if you joined the fandom in 2012 or earlier, chances are you still do an occasional homestuck thing here or there.

So that leads to the weird and wild experience of people who were younger when they first joined the fandom (eg me) occasionally working on projects a decade later with people whose fanwork they really admired back in the day.

[catgirl-catboy]

A lightbulb just went off in my head:

The amount of antis in a fandom has nothing to do with the darkness of the content itself.   What it does have something to do with?   The stances of the Big Name Fans.

[kellyvela]

Funny thing is most BNFs totally loved the show when the theories like Jon's resurrection or R+L were confirmed. They only started hating it later on because other theories like T@rg restoration, 3 heads of dragons, S@nsan never came true. So now all of them act like show isn't canon or they never liked it at all lmao

Yup.

[imetyouonljpodcast]

I Met You On LJ → Episode #040: An Unbelievable Series of Words

Two BNFs falling out? That’s like a sharknado.

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Charmies should really watch this, and all the way to the end. The parallels to how Sherlock fandom crumbled is in step with how Charmie is now going. It's fascinating.

[fedonciadale]

What IS a BNF?

Dear nonny,

a BIG NAME FAN,

People who have been around for quite some time and therefore have a huge following and are sort of famous in the fandom.

In the GoT/ASOIAF fandom they behave like tenured and established professors of the ASOIAF university - with a self-confidence that comes close to hero worship and so smug about their theories (Stannis retakes Winterfell, Jon and Dany and Tyrion as heads of the dragon and world saviours, you name it...) that they probably would tell off GRRM himself if he contradicts them...

They ignore everything that challenges their view on ASOIAF and as always Jonsa theories and theories by Jonsas are the worst (tm) and they would declare them a heresy if they could.

Sry, not sry for the generalisation... I 'm sure they are not all like that.

Thanks for the ask!

[killjohnkaye]

John Kaye and Frits - Melbourne