#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT-I suppose it does depend on how people come into the fandom and how they interact with it. I agree that many people are drawn in by the existing fic, and a large part of those fics are juggernaunt pairings. But, like you say many people move on from those fics to other teams and other pairings. Some people will be drawn in by individual teams and players instead.

So there are many people who do have shared experience of specific works or authors but does it make a difference if K/T or S/G continues to be produced? That I'm not so sure about. I'm not really into twitter so perhaps that reduces the impact on me.

I think it'll be interesting to see if it is a shift in focus, and a new juggernaut pairing will emerge. Or if there will be a greater number of different smaller ships. I'm not sure if it's just a decline of juggernaut pairings or if it's a result of the rift in the fandom which is impacting the sense of community. There do seem to have been more team specific exchanges for example this year, but it is difficult to determine cause and effect.

I think there will be some occasions when you wish someone would write the pairing of your heart rather than a different pairing.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That's a good point about how people engage in fandom. It would be a really different experience for someone whose fandom participation also included twitter and tumblr, versus someone who might just read and write fic for particular players they care about. I guess I was thinking more of the former than the latter.

My theory is that fewer people will be drawn in by non-juggernaut teams and players in the first place than the amount of people drawn in by juggernauts who then move on to those other teams/pairings. But that's only my perception. Like you, I'm curious to see what happens next. And that's a good point about cause and effect -- it's easy to see, for example, why something like the Kane allegations would fragment the sense of "community" and contribute to the decline of K/T as a juggernaut pairing.

Oh, I agree, and I've felt that way about my favorite pairings too! I just thought it might be one thing subconsciously influencing conflating wanting the juggernauts to decline with wanting more variety of pairings.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I do engage a certain amount with tumblr but I limit that, because I find it too much to absorb.

Like the other anon I entered the fandom through recs on FFA and I had no idea who the people were, but there was more to read for that pairing than say a rare pair. But the players I ended up liking most and the team I follow aren't the ones from the first fic I read. I am sure if I had connected to one of the teams with a juggernaut pairing my perceptions would be different.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oh, I wonder if this is at least as much a question of how people engage in fandom, then. The reason I feel so strongly that fandom had a wide sense of community was how impossible it was for me to ignore the juggernaut pairing I didn't care for, not being attached to a juggernaut pairing/team. Even people I followed who weren't attached to that juggernaut-containing team frequently engaged with the players/pairing and their fans, even some who claimed not to like one of the players involved. But my problem with fandom was also the same as my general problem with tumblr, which is the impossibility of shielding yourself from certain content/people without cutting yourself off from what you want to use tumblr for in the first place. Obviously that wouldn't be the case for someone who engages less in that platform and who mainly reads and writes fic, and I hadn't thought of that.