Fandom Crazy: An Epic Saga

[drakyndra]

I take back everything I have said about the craziness of Doctor Who fandom. There is no fandom crazy like Harry Potter crazy.

...And yet somehow I, little fandom n00b that I was, managed to remain completely oblivious to all this until about 2 years ago.

Comments

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I think it's that she wanted in with the BNFs. And as someone said in one of the comments to them, it's not like now, back then BNF-ness was a Big Fucking Deal. "They made people, and made pairings" was the quote, I believe. The analogy would be getting into the popular crowd at school - some people will do pretty much anything to achieve that.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's true enough that BNFs made pairings - hell, I've heard it said that the Draco Trilogy is mostly responsible for making Harry/Hermione as a 'plausible' a pairing as it was in fandom. Similarly with Draco - you still get people to this day - wasn't there another wank about it really recently - complaining that canon Draco isn't as 'good' as that Draco... didn't the Draco trilogy basically create fanon Draco, complete with leather trousers, snarkiness, and all?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you about the Harry/Hermione thing - until I read those fics (Well, the first two, I got bored by then and never read more than a chapter of the third) - I would never have considered it, what with the screamingly obviousness of Ron/Hermione and all. And I don't know if the trilogy created fanon!Draco, but since it was pushed to pretty much everyone when you entered the fandom, it certainly got it the massive exposure and popularity.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

ZOMG!! Part five is up!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Eek! And I was half-way through mina_de_malfois, too. *races off to read*