If their major fannish thing is RPF, I expect them to also be fannish about something fictional or to have been in the past (like J2 fans generally also being SPN fans, LotRPS coming out of LotR fandom, Bandom having strong connections to slash fandom as a whole, etc.).
That's really interesting, because one of the things I've noticed with assumptions about RPF is that actor-rpf or perhaps bandom—the rpf that is closely connected to fpf fandoms—is the majority of rpf. I don't find that to be true, at all. I'm not sure that the politifandom/fakenews people are necessarily linked in, and I find the rockfic people to be much further out. Idolslash/SYTYCD seems to be a first fandom for a lot of folks, and if anything, they're likely to go into the kinds of fandoms that are new and not tied to SF-F, like Gossip Girl or The Office or HIMYM. I see a growing group of relatively young people who write fanfic as a matter of course while being fannish about any thing, not as part of being a certain kind of SF-F fan. The one place they might have been was main HP fandom, but they saw HP as a teen book, a mystery book, but not primarily a fantasy book—not unlike Twilight.
That said, coming out of HP fandom and all that "feral fandom" criticism, I've been much more aware of the differences between the fandoms I've been involved with and main SF-F fandom (whether old school or new), and as the assumptions that all things fannish are the same slide away, I'm more interested in the similarities, because I think there are many.
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Date: 2009-06-09 08:16 pm (UTC)That's really interesting, because one of the things I've noticed with assumptions about RPF is that actor-rpf or perhaps bandom—the rpf that is closely connected to fpf fandoms—is the majority of rpf. I don't find that to be true, at all. I'm not sure that the politifandom/fakenews people are necessarily linked in, and I find the rockfic people to be much further out. Idolslash/SYTYCD seems to be a first fandom for a lot of folks, and if anything, they're likely to go into the kinds of fandoms that are new and not tied to SF-F, like Gossip Girl or The Office or HIMYM. I see a growing group of relatively young people who write fanfic as a matter of course while being fannish about any thing, not as part of being a certain kind of SF-F fan. The one place they might have been was main HP fandom, but they saw HP as a teen book, a mystery book, but not primarily a fantasy book—not unlike Twilight.
That said, coming out of HP fandom and all that "feral fandom" criticism, I've been much more aware of the differences between the fandoms I've been involved with and main SF-F fandom (whether old school or new), and as the assumptions that all things fannish are the same slide away, I'm more interested in the similarities, because I think there are many.