[ **up: [[Fan studies]]** ] --- # Fandom - [[Fan–idol relationships (Pop culture)]] - [[Fanfiction]] - [[Femslash]] - [[Slash (Fiction)]] - [[Omegaverse]] --- ## Lived experiences > We are people who love stories, who love sharing excitement, and we connect with each other not only by finding the characters our lives have in common but also by *creating* them. We build mutual relationships off of unidirectional relationships, and both kinds of relationships strengthen and grow and change in the process. This is *so cool* to me.[^1] --- > one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, “please don’t make fun of me, i’m so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can’t stop crying.” she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, “i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?” i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again[^2] --- - [A “Fan/Fandom Creed” from 2005](https://grayout.livejournal.com/63861.html) - [On Being a Village Elder: An Essay on Community Responsibility](https://fanlore.org/wiki/On_Being_A_Village_Elder:_An_Essay_On_Community_Responsibility) (also [here on Dreamwidth](https://oliviacirce.dreamwidth.org/250242.html)) [^1]: jedusaur \[pseud.], ‘Oh yeah–-I mean, not *personally*…’, *Personal Fanon* (Dreamwidth blog), 25 August 2012, https://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/69895.html. [^2]: wizardarchetypes \[pseud]., ‘one time when I was 17 …’, *Hello??? For The Love Of God Hello?????* (Tumblr blog), 24 March 2025, 1:42 PM, https://www.tumblr.com/wizardarchetypes/778865636040458240/one-time-when-i-was-17-i-watched-an-episode-of.