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A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy involved with their interest, often as a part of a social network with particular practices, differentiating fandom-affiliated people from those with only a casual interest.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Fandom"

Stranger Things: Rebel Robin (Stranger Things, #4)

Whatever Happens (Julie and the Phantoms)

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts

What If... Loki Was Worthy? (Marvel's What If...?, #1)

The Truth is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files

Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom

Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel

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Stranger Than Fan Fiction (Unlucky in Love #1)

Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life

Once an Ever After (Once Upon a Con, #3.5)

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Quotes Tagged “Fandom”

“ The multimodality and multivocality of Tumblr blur the lines between feminist and fannish communities on the site, producing a cultural formation in which feminist, or ‘social justice’, politics are increasingly, although not exclusively, central to the operation of media fandom on Tumblr ... This is central to the formation of what I call ‘feminist fandom’, and Tumblr has subsequently secured a reputation for its users’ in-depth analysis of representational politics and social issues ... It is ...more ”
― Briony Hannell, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr

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“ When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn’t ...more ”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

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