\[ **BT: [[society#subcultures]]** ] --- # fandom > **Fandom**. ‘Communities of people who are fans of a particular work or media property. Participation in fandom can include writing and reading fanfiction, creating and viewing fanart, attending conventions, cosplaying, and/or roleplaying.’[^1] > ‘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.’[^2] > ‘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’[^3] + see also: [[fanfiction]] - ↬ [Kpop music archive](https://kpopmusicarchive.tumblr.com/) [^1]: ‘Fandom’, [[sources/Homosaurus|Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary]], last modified 23 February 2025, 07:12:01 (UTC), <https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0002156>. [^2]: jedusaur \[pseud.], ‘Oh yeah–-I mean, not *personally*…’, *Personal Fanon* (Dreamwidth blog), 25 August 2012, <https://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/69895.html>. [^3]: 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>.