Actors Who 'Get' Fandom
Jan. 12th, 2009 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackwabbitSo, here we have an article with two of my top three guys covered, and that alone is reason to share, but when you add this bit of lovely from another of my fan loves, well, immediate posting ensues:
"The X-Files was said to be the first Internet show. We had chat rooms and fan sites and all that. Look, I'm usually five or six years behind whatever is hip. So it was around 2000 that I started doing e-mail and finally started understanding what all that was about. ... My initial response — and I still hold this to be true — is that it takes the place of some of the functions of a church in a small town: A place where people come together, ostensibly to worship something. But really what's happening is you’re forming a community. It's less about what you're worshiping and more about, "We have these interests in common." Someone has a sick aunt and suddenly it's about that, raising money to help her or sharing resources to make her life easier. That's what it was about with The X-Files on the Internet." -David Duchovny
Oh, David. Problems or not, you really should finish out that thesis, buddy. You deserve your PhD in literature. Magic and Technology in Modern Poetry and Prose indeed. You, my man, get it. As do the others in this article. Give it a look, guys. It'll make you think twice about fandom. We're not alone, folks. They're fans, too.
http://io9.com/5128208/actors-who-get-fandom
Peoples is peoples and all that.
"The X-Files was said to be the first Internet show. We had chat rooms and fan sites and all that. Look, I'm usually five or six years behind whatever is hip. So it was around 2000 that I started doing e-mail and finally started understanding what all that was about. ... My initial response — and I still hold this to be true — is that it takes the place of some of the functions of a church in a small town: A place where people come together, ostensibly to worship something. But really what's happening is you’re forming a community. It's less about what you're worshiping and more about, "We have these interests in common." Someone has a sick aunt and suddenly it's about that, raising money to help her or sharing resources to make her life easier. That's what it was about with The X-Files on the Internet." -David Duchovny
Oh, David. Problems or not, you really should finish out that thesis, buddy. You deserve your PhD in literature. Magic and Technology in Modern Poetry and Prose indeed. You, my man, get it. As do the others in this article. Give it a look, guys. It'll make you think twice about fandom. We're not alone, folks. They're fans, too.
http://io9.com/5128208/actors-who-get-fandom
Peoples is peoples and all that.
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Date: Jan. 13th, 2009 05:09 am (UTC)They may act for a living (they are likely theater geeks too in addition to being "regular" geeks)but most the other parts of their lives are "normal" (if anyone's life can be "normal").
And if you could point the way to Will Wheaton's blog? I've heard so much about it I'd like to read it first hand.
Thanks!
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Date: Jan. 13th, 2009 11:44 am (UTC)