To love fangirling

[WoburnSands]

I'm currently fangirling over a male celebrity - so am doing the usual - looking up every YouTube clip of him that's ever been recorded ... Looking up every internet nugget about him.

I was attracted to him cos of his good looks - coincidentally we appear to have had similar upbringings in SOME ways from what I've read!!

Ah there's worse ways to spend a weekday evening !!

Autocorrect at first changed 'similar' upbringings to 'solidarity' upbringings - as far as I know neither of us was brought up by a 1980s Polish political party ....

almondpudding - the only time, as I say, I've come across shipping is the One Direction fandom - talking on social media about 'shipping' Harry, etc with someone or other - I didn't grasp it really.

The fansplaining podcast (cited upthread) is great.

There is a lot of shipping in One Direction fandom. Not knowing anything about the band, there was a while when I thought Larry Stylinson was an actual member of the band.

Shipping described here:

fanlore.org/wiki/Shipping

I didn't like the first few episodes of Fansplaining, but the rest has been amazing.

Ah thanks for the link almondpudding

Yes thanks. That is an interesting article. It does make more sense now! I might look up fansplaining. Is it a BBC podcast?

It is independent. I think one of the women works in the entertainment industry advising on fan responses and the other is a journalist who sometimes writes about fandom, and both are in fandom.

They talk about particular issues within fandom and interview different people - academics who write about fans, lawyers who work for fan organisations and so on.

I think they find their voice more after the first three episodes.

You can get it on. iTunes as well. The episode where they talk about what defines someone as a fan is maybe called one fandom to rule them all.

Sorry, the link...

soundcloud.com/fansplaining

I am wrong. It is maybe called 'One True Fandom.'

Am on phone so can't search but has anyone mentioned this quote from Almost Famous?

"They don’t even know what it is to be a fan. Y’know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.”

^^This. Fangirling.

Yes. Totally utterly agree ^ That completely sums it up for me. And what makes the fandom is meeting other people who have that same reaction to the same thing.

For everyone who loves that film as much as I do (i.e. I fangirl a film about fangirling):

Name changed on the "things you wouldn't like people to know about you in RL" thread on chat to admit to my fanfic habit! Yes, I read and write the stuff. But I ship fictional characters, not RP (which I do find a bit creepy - writing about the actors who play the characters having sex with each other is not for me!) Actually, my main "ship" is from a book which I think was handled so badly in the film I don't picture the actors at all when I imagine it.

And as an ex footy player and footy fan, I love the parallel between fandom and footy fans! If you're not sure how accurate this is, go read Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch (the book - do not watch the film whatever you do - turned a fascinating mix of semi-autobiography and musing about football and its links to culture, current affairs etc. into a tenth rate romance, truly awful!)

Is shipping the same as crossover?

What on earth is fangirling?

It's just being a fan of something, and getting involved in all the surrounding paraphernalia, like fan art and fiction I think. It can be used as quite a derogatory term by mostly the traditional sci fi male fans who don't think women are serious enough and are doing it because they fancy the characters rather than appreciate the genre.

Crossover is a kind of fic with characters in from different universes.

So if Batman appeared in a fic with Castiel from Supernatural.

It doesn't have to involve relationships (shipping) but it can do.

I like reading fanfic. Some are very bizarre sexually...

I've only ever heard the word fangirling in an internet context tbh and I was using the word in a very loose sense. I've heard it on youtube comments etc. I used it almost as a sort of losse, slang, term - there is likely a tighter more accurate definition though.