As a non-creator, I don't tend to consider myself "in" a fandom until I've been interested in reading the fiction and the meta for longer than a week or two. If I maintain interest after I've read through the main fic archive, then I'm in the fandom. If I start randomly adding lj users because they write good fic or say interesting things about the source, then I'm really in the fandom.
I qualify it that way because I tend to get bored and randomly read fic for shows that I've never even seen, let alone been fannish about. I am multi-fannish, and often have 2-3 "main" fandoms at once, usually with 5-6 "minor" fandoms underneath - I tend to consider a fandom "minor" for me when it's a fandom that would be main, except for the fact that it's a really, really tiny fandom.
But within any given week, I've probably read fic in 15-20 fandoms. And I'm sure as hell not in all of them.
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Date: 2007-03-25 03:52 pm (UTC)I qualify it that way because I tend to get bored and randomly read fic for shows that I've never even seen, let alone been fannish about. I am multi-fannish, and often have 2-3 "main" fandoms at once, usually with 5-6 "minor" fandoms underneath - I tend to consider a fandom "minor" for me when it's a fandom that would be main, except for the fact that it's a really, really tiny fandom.
But within any given week, I've probably read fic in 15-20 fandoms. And I'm sure as hell not in all of them.