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89The Basics of Fanfiction
Fanfiction is a popular but often secretive and poorly understood hobby. Even the definition of fanfiction is controversial. Wikipedia offers as good a definition as any - "Fan fiction is a broadly defined term for fiction about characters or...
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77The Basics of Fanvids
A fanvid, also sometimes called a vid or songvid, is a fan-made music video that combines music with television or film footage to tell a story or make an argument. Although fanvids are related to video...
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66What is Fandom?
Fandom is the community surrounding a particular character, pairing, TV show, movie or other entertainment-based endeavor. Such shows as Star Trek, The Man from Uncle and Battlestar Galactica are just a few examples of shows in the last few...
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81The Female Gaze
Every few years, there's a new sensation among teenage girls, and every time a new one arrives on the scene, a lot of people seem surprised all over again that a bunch of girls can drive the highest grossing films, bands, and books of the year....
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78Twilight: Love to Hate or Hate to Love?
This week, much to my own amusement, I found myself in the little town of Forks, Washington. We were en route with my husband from the lovely Victorian seaside port of Port Townsend to the hiking trails and giant spruces of the Hoh Rainforest in...
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79Star Trek: Data's Love Life (A Retrospective)
It isn't easy being a machine in love as Data, the android on the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" could tell you. If his predecessor Spock had women throwing themselves as his unemotional Vulcan feet usually to no avail, Data...
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63X-Files Episode Love: The Field Where I Died
"At times I almost dream..." "The Field Where I Died" is one of my favorite X-Files episodes of the entire series. There are a number of X-Philes who hate it and think it was a waste of time. But I have a...
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57Fandom: My Insights
What does it mean to be a fan An important question is what is a fan? Everyone likes something but what makes one a fan or even more a fan boy? It is a love of a brand, a product, a person, anything...
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53When Fandom Crosses The Line
Recently I read some pretty disturbing comments about the significant other of one of my favorite actors. The comments were rude, nasty, spiteful, and baseless in reality. Most shocking to me was that the...
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69Sub vs Dub, the Great Anime Debate
Anime, animated series from Japan, are presented in America in one of two formats: subbed or dubbed (usually abbreviated as sub and dub respectively). Subs are presented with the original Japanese audio with English subtitles. Dub, on the other...
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