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when you say you’re searching for your life’s purpose what you actually mean is you are searching for a box, an identity, a way to compress yourself so that you are more digestible for yourself and others. You don’t have a life purpose, you have identities and roles, you have a desperate desire to relate.

gardenvarietyhuman

💥🙌👏

ineffablebookgirl

Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs

addressmysol

Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!

angstbotfic

i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:

"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.

there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.

annlarimer

Do the kids not read Textual Poachers anymore?

Wait, I just checked the current price and what was once a nonfiction book for everybody that you could pick up at B&N is now a $250 textbook, of course they can't fucking read it. Get you a used copy off ebay.