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David Newgreen ([personal profile] 4thofeleven) wrote2010-06-20 12:53 am

Your Naivety is Charming

Talking to some RL friends yesterday, fanfiction came up. There’s something kind of cute about talking to otherwise wordly people and having to explain to them that, no, the authors tend to be female, that yes, it’s mainly slash (and then needing to explain what slash means), and that of course the majority of Star Trek fic is Kirk/Spock, why would you expec t anything else?

Of course, it does occur to me I might spend a little too much time online that it actually surprised me that there’s still people who didn’t know things like that. I’d have thought that sort of thing would have trickled into mainstream awareness by now…
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[identity profile] 4thofeleven.livejournal.com 2010-06-20 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's possible you don't know what penalty shots or foul balls are, and what you think is sport is in fact just as hilariously inaccurate and baffling wrong as mass media's understanding of fandom... *grin*