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The Schisms: on fandom and heresy

therisingtithes:

So after the whole damn fandom mess, for which there are multiple better-written essays than I can write to explain how much of a wank it is, I noticed a couple people coming back into a reblog I made of a very intelligent post by @fozmeadows about the gendered splits of fandom and how they approximately parallel splits between the curative fan effort (embracing canon, knowing canon in depth, etc., which I called ‘Canon Literalism’) and the transformative fan effort (fanworks, which I called ‘Canon Exegesis’). 

That analogy - the veneer of faith thrown over fandom, because let’s be real, the act of enjoying a piece of media is a ritual, we are congregants to our favourite work - was one I really wanted to explore further, but between the odd loss of focus or energy, a focus on my creative work, and generally being daunted by how impressively huge the fanwork academic scene is online, I never really dug deeper than my various notes on the topic. 

But I’ve discovered, more vividly in the wake of this fandom mess, something stark which makes what was at first a nifty lens through which to observe fandom and its engagements with the world even more critical; in other words, I discovered that there is another very key ‘faith’-object to apply to fandom: 

heresy

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