temeres has a fascinating couple of posts about a "new wave" in Blake's 7 fanfiction in the late 90s/early noughties: here and here. An interesting moment when people were meeting and discussing online but still (mostly) publishing in zines.
(sorry, no Trooper icon to go along with the subject line) If someone happened to be a fan at the relevant time(s), B7 offered not *only* a group of people who agreed with you that the blokes were shagging like weasels, but a canon in which technology was your enemy, nothing worked, and the dictatorship was more survivable than your friends.
So it's a great fandom for critique of politics and sexual politics. And, for those so inclined, a fandom that questions the very idea of order is also a good place for literary exploration.
B7 fandom has also tended to be post-adolescent, and well-educated (formally or autodidactically), allowing space for a certain amount of thoughtfulness between explosions of one sort or another.
B7 fandom has also tended to be post-adolescent, and well-educated (formally or autodidactically), allowing space for a certain amount of thoughtfulness between explosions of one sort or another.
Interesting point, although I've been in some fandoms where age and guile have not prevented explosions. Unfamiliarity with basic netiquette on the part of main participants, and a large number of participants (making the debate impossible to follow fully) seem to have been the trigger for these explosions, if I was going to generalize.
(I have a feeling I arrived back in B7 fandom shortly after a couple of flame wars had fully burnt out, so at a moment when people were regrouping or newly arriving, and ready to engage in lively, non-hostile discussion.)
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The Future's So Shite You Have to Wear Shades
Date: 2011-02-07 02:45 pm (UTC)So it's a great fandom for critique of politics and sexual politics. And, for those so inclined, a fandom that questions the very idea of order is also a good place for literary exploration.
B7 fandom has also tended to be post-adolescent, and well-educated (formally or autodidactically), allowing space for a certain amount of thoughtfulness between explosions of one sort or another.
Re: The Future's So Shite You Have to Wear Shades
Date: 2011-02-08 10:14 am (UTC)Interesting point, although I've been in some fandoms where age and guile have not prevented explosions. Unfamiliarity with basic netiquette on the part of main participants, and a large number of participants (making the debate impossible to follow fully) seem to have been the trigger for these explosions, if I was going to generalize.
(I have a feeling I arrived back in B7 fandom shortly after a couple of flame wars had fully burnt out, so at a moment when people were regrouping or newly arriving, and ready to engage in lively, non-hostile discussion.)