Interesting! I do think I assume Pretty Princess Monsters Blargh are all either fannish butterflies or fans of fandom in general. All those "fandom is my fandom" or "vidding is my fandom" or "meta is my fandom". Even though I know better, because every time Pretty Princess Monsters Blargh pick a new Huge Fandom to congregate in, Metafandom gets filled up with posts from fannish, um, non-butterflies, trees perhaps? who are all rooted in the previous Huge Fandom and won't follow everyone to the next, because they are not serially monogamous! Fandom is for life! for them.
Plus by now I have the habit of watching a movie or show for the first time and, if I feel the fannish love starting, I look up fanfiction recs for the fandom or ship I'm interested in. (This gets really frustrating for old movies. Where is the Bedknobs and Broomsticks love? Not even so much as one Harry Potter crossover where the children end up at Hogwarts? Come on! I may be known to utter the phrase "you have failed me for the last time, fandom" darkly at unfruitful Google search pages.)
Then again, I see a lot of "fandom is my fandom" with Scary Ponies Oh No as well. A lot of cons are somewhat or completely fandom-non-specific; filkers don't segregate by preferred text (that I know of, but then there's a lot I don't know of); and the expressions of Scary Ponies Oh No fannish pride, Fans Are Slans, mock the mundanes, &c., seem to be fannish-socialization first, preferred-text second.
Of course, I just asked for expectations and assumptions; whether or not these are in any way an accurate reflection of anything is another question entirely. ;-)
Re: via metafandom
Plus by now I have the habit of watching a movie or show for the first time and, if I feel the fannish love starting, I look up fanfiction recs for the fandom or ship I'm interested in. (This gets really frustrating for old movies. Where is the Bedknobs and Broomsticks love? Not even so much as one Harry Potter crossover where the children end up at Hogwarts? Come on! I may be known to utter the phrase "you have failed me for the last time, fandom" darkly at unfruitful Google search pages.)
Then again, I see a lot of "fandom is my fandom" with Scary Ponies Oh No as well. A lot of cons are somewhat or completely fandom-non-specific; filkers don't segregate by preferred text (that I know of, but then there's a lot I don't know of); and the expressions of Scary Ponies Oh No fannish pride, Fans Are Slans, mock the mundanes, &c., seem to be fannish-socialization first, preferred-text second.
Of course, I just asked for expectations and assumptions; whether or not these are in any way an accurate reflection of anything is another question entirely. ;-)