[penguicon-general] Fannish Material To Read

[Greg]

On 12/20/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every fannish activity the characters in that book participated in
was a
> human train wreck. The author attributed their motivation to
participate
> entirely to their personality flaws, which were not depicted 
> mpathetically at any point. Far from being a core experience of
fandom, 
> I found its perspective to be outside my experience. If BotDS is a
good 
> intro to fandom, stay away from that fandom.

I got the same impression when I saw Trekkers.  While I'm sure the
intent was to give a humorous look at Trek fandom, to me, it came off
as making ST fans looking like a bunch of eeediots.  You just can't
trust the media.

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