Anya ,'Showtime'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Seems like removing SPN removes the last traces of that Smallville and DS feel from the thread.
Or puts it back to they way it was in the first place.
I've been looking at the original conversation in this thread that created Boxed Set four years ago, and it's kind of prophetic, mostly about the different ways the Due South and Smallville dealt with their shows versus how the Farscape folks did, and how that would change things for both groups.
I've been looking at the original conversation in this thread that created Boxed Set four years ago, and it's kind of prophetic, mostly about the different ways the Due South and Smallville dealt with their shows versus how the Farscape folks did, and how that would change things for both groups.
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D'oh. Fixed.
I'll note that it was a small part of a big proposal, so there is a lot of jumping around.
Link goes to heated discussion of Spoiler Fonts.
Good times, man. Good times.
Let's say, hypothetically, that there was a show, let's call it "Shmoopernatural"
Actually, I think that's its title already.
It hadn't occurred to me that "where goes this one TV show so goes the mediafannish discussion" but I suppose that might be true. And it also hadn't occurred to me that people don't know what I mean when I say media fandom because I know this has come up in regard to the Boxed Set thread 3-4 times -- in Bureaucracy, not in Light Bulbs, but it has definitely come up before.
Media fandom is a set of subcultural practices that occur in regard toward a source text (usually a TV show). The ways media fandom show up most obviously are in fanfic and vids; in-depth discussion; and an assumption of shared source texts (i.e., even though I've never seen a single episode of Due South, I know a lot about the show, because it is part of my subculture). It is totally possible to participate in an in-depth discussion with media-fannish people and not know it, because media-fannish people can code-switch just as easily as anybody else, and it's not necessary to whip out all the media-fannish shibboleths just to prove that an in-depth discussion is in-depthy enough.
Given our historical respect for subcultures within threads, I think that should be a factor in voting. (Granted, this particular subculture is also happily ensconced elsewhere, e.g. LJ, but I do think enough Buffistas are mediafannish that we want to keep that subculture a part of the board somehow.) Given that a lot of people think that the mediafannish discussion will follow wherever the biggest mediafannish text is, I suddenly have no idea how to vote.
OK, I think Nutty's post confused me even more. It's definitely not her fault, it's mine...
*waits for more people to say more things*
Hrm. I think that's a whole lot of subtext for a thread.
It hadn't occurred to me that "where goes this one TV show so goes the mediafannish discussion" but I suppose that might be true.
This is the core of what I am wondering. (only with bigger words). I don't know if it would happen or not, but I think there is a high enough chance of it happening that I wanted to put the question out there.
Perhaps it would just be easier to substitute "Hoyay!" for "media-fannishness".
You aren't the only one confused. To my reading pretty much every show discussed on b.org could be classed as media fannish. I know it has been discussed and defined before but I have never gotten a definition that either clarifies it for me or narrows the scope to anything other than all show discussed here.