Ha! Yes, I'm male. It appears that LJ is one of the few places on the Net where there are more women than men -- I seem to recall that there was a statistics at some point that the female:male ratio is something like 2:1, and I think I have roughly that proportion on my friends list. But being in the actual minority is new to me. :)
I'm not "in fandom", I think. I have to admit that I didn't even watch all that many episodes of B5 when it first aired, mostly because I started too late (somewhere in Season 4, I believe) and didn't get the overall story arc. But I'm now buying the DVD sets the minute they come out, and then I'm typically incapacitated for the three days or so it takes me to watch all episodes back to back. So I'm catching up.
But "in fandom" implies that you've reached levels of obsession that go beyond that, right? (What exactly?) I don't have usericons related to one of the typical fandoms, and I don't read much fanfiction -- my impression with erotic fanfiction, in particular, has mostly been that people think it's so cool that they have well-known characters at their disposal that they neglect the aspects that make non-fanfiction erotica attractive and interesting.
Maybe I should put a note on my userinfo page that most of my friends are more more fannish than I am. But it seems hard to find interesting people on LJ who aren't both female and fangirls of something or another. :)
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Re: Spock/Snape
Date: 2004-02-08 11:02 pm (UTC)I'm not "in fandom", I think. I have to admit that I didn't even watch all that many episodes of B5 when it first aired, mostly because I started too late (somewhere in Season 4, I believe) and didn't get the overall story arc. But I'm now buying the DVD sets the minute they come out, and then I'm typically incapacitated for the three days or so it takes me to watch all episodes back to back. So I'm catching up.
But "in fandom" implies that you've reached levels of obsession that go beyond that, right? (What exactly?) I don't have usericons related to one of the typical fandoms, and I don't read much fanfiction -- my impression with erotic fanfiction, in particular, has mostly been that people think it's so cool that they have well-known characters at their disposal that they neglect the aspects that make non-fanfiction erotica attractive and interesting.
Maybe I should put a note on my userinfo page that most of my friends are more more fannish than I am. But it seems hard to find interesting people on LJ who aren't both female and fangirls of something or another. :)