Secure The Blessings – Fan Activism: Book Analysis
Secure the Blessings – Fan Activism
In this section I deal with fans in general, and it is important to remember that not all fans participate in the creation or consuming of fan fiction—some are downright hostile to the genre, or some sub-genres, like slash or RPF22. But all people who write fan fiction are by definition fans of something.
There have been studies on the relationship of political activism and fandom, or being a fan. There is the activism outside fandom sphere as well as activism directly related to the content of the canon material, like asking the makers to bring back favourite characters, or fix the way some aspects are represented, or the fate of the canon, as in the campaigns to save cancelled TV shows. Another level of activism is that which is geared towards changing the conventions of the …show more content…
Bacon-Smith 1992, p 144). "Fan fiction is not a product of the fannish discursive community but is instead another entry into its ongoing circulation of claims about what canon is and what it could be." (Wills 2013)
It is again important to remember that not all fans participate in fan fiction, some consider it to be objectively wrong26, some only in the case where the author has discouraged it. Fanfiction.net doesn't allow content about certain writers' work as they have stated explicitly to be against it27 , and one form of activism is trying to dissuade other fans from writing it, or certain forms of it, like slash or RPF.
That is one instance of the activism within fandom, trying to change the practices of the community or culture itself, not just the contents of fan creations. Other examples included the campaigns to get people to comment more on the stories they read, and the importance of disclaimers, explicitly stating the ownership of the characters and the non-profit nature of the
In this section I deal with fans in general, and it is important to remember that not all fans participate in the creation or consuming of fan fiction—some are downright hostile to the genre, or some sub-genres, like slash or RPF22. But all people who write fan fiction are by definition fans of something.
There have been studies on the relationship of political activism and fandom, or being a fan. There is the activism outside fandom sphere as well as activism directly related to the content of the canon material, like asking the makers to bring back favourite characters, or fix the way some aspects are represented, or the fate of the canon, as in the campaigns to save cancelled TV shows. Another level of activism is that which is geared towards changing the conventions of the …show more content…
Bacon-Smith 1992, p 144). "Fan fiction is not a product of the fannish discursive community but is instead another entry into its ongoing circulation of claims about what canon is and what it could be." (Wills 2013)
It is again important to remember that not all fans participate in fan fiction, some consider it to be objectively wrong26, some only in the case where the author has discouraged it. Fanfiction.net doesn't allow content about certain writers' work as they have stated explicitly to be against it27 , and one form of activism is trying to dissuade other fans from writing it, or certain forms of it, like slash or RPF.
That is one instance of the activism within fandom, trying to change the practices of the community or culture itself, not just the contents of fan creations. Other examples included the campaigns to get people to comment more on the stories they read, and the importance of disclaimers, explicitly stating the ownership of the characters and the non-profit nature of the