I say "imaginary" because, while there is Oz bookverse fandom, it's very old-fashioned: mostly mailing lists and zines and the like. I've toyed with the idea of what Oz fandom would look like if the books had been written ninety years later. Probably a lot like Harry Potter Fandom, is what I envision.
Ooo, cool! Have you seen liviapenn's and hradzka's posts on this? (On imagining what LJ fandoms for older books might look like, I mean.) If you're interested, you can find David's one on Holmes here (http://hradzka.livejournal.com/121802.html), and he links to Livia's post about the Wimsey series at the top of that one.
Have you ever written up your vision of Oz-written-today fandom? I find those posts fascinating. (Well. Obviously, since I have collection of them in my head.)
I also, come to think of it, have more than one Sailor Moon ETMNBR. I've been meaning for a long time to rewrite one of them into an interesting and readable epic, but it may never happen. Which is a shame, because I think it could be made interesting to other people.
Interesting. What do you think needs to be done to your epic to make it readable and interesting to others? (I'm, um, fishing for ideas, here - I mean, if there's a way to do that, I would seriously consider it, just because - well, I wrote these ETMNBR, and it'd be really nice to take the MNBR part of them.)
Thanks for laying your fannish psyche bare for us - it's intriguing!
It's what LJ is for! (You can lay your psyche bare in many places, but only in LJ do half the people who see it say, "Me, too!" and another 5% say, "Link?")
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Ooo, cool! Have you seen
Have you ever written up your vision of Oz-written-today fandom? I find those posts fascinating. (Well. Obviously, since I have collection of them in my head.)
I also, come to think of it, have more than one Sailor Moon ETMNBR. I've been meaning for a long time to rewrite one of them into an interesting and readable epic, but it may never happen. Which is a shame, because I think it could be made interesting to other people.
Interesting. What do you think needs to be done to your epic to make it readable and interesting to others? (I'm, um, fishing for ideas, here - I mean, if there's a way to do that, I would seriously consider it, just because - well, I wrote these ETMNBR, and it'd be really nice to take the MNBR part of them.)
Thanks for laying your fannish psyche bare for us - it's intriguing!
It's what LJ is for! (You can lay your psyche bare in many places, but only in LJ do half the people who see it say, "Me, too!" and another 5% say, "Link?")