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holyoutlaw, my jumbled mind chanced to think of how a few of us involved in Corflu Zed had joked about calling it the World Convention for Fringe Fandom, which was of course a play on Corflu Silver's World Convention for Core Fandom. This got me thinking about the controversy around the phrase "core fandom," and about previous attempts to name this difficult group: trufandom, fanzine fandom, fannish fandom. The latter suddenly struck me as pretty meta, and then it came to me. Of course! Metafandom! Fans of fandom itself! That's what we are! Or fandom that has disappeared up its own arse. Or at least that's the way it always feels when I try to explain what I do to those fans of a more sercon complexion, let alone to anyone who isn't a fan to begin with. I don't mean it in a bad way either. I'm perfectly happy to disappear up my own fundament. It's a reverse ouroboros, right? Which is kind of cool.
Quick, Luke, change the flyer! "Corflu Zed: A Reverse Ouroboros."
holyoutlaw, my jumbled mind chanced to think of how a few of us involved in Corflu Zed had joked about calling it the World Convention for Fringe Fandom, which was of course a play on Corflu Silver's World Convention for Core Fandom. This got me thinking about the controversy around the phrase "core fandom," and about previous attempts to name this difficult group: trufandom, fanzine fandom, fannish fandom. The latter suddenly struck me as pretty meta, and then it came to me. Of course! Metafandom! Fans of fandom itself! That's what we are! Or fandom that has disappeared up its own arse. Or at least that's the way it always feels when I try to explain what I do to those fans of a more sercon complexion, let alone to anyone who isn't a fan to begin with. I don't mean it in a bad way either. I'm perfectly happy to disappear up my own fundament. It's a reverse ouroboros, right? Which is kind of cool.Quick, Luke, change the flyer! "Corflu Zed: A Reverse Ouroboros."
