My Fannish World

irisbleu said she was inventing a fannish meme and invited everyone to draw a "visual representation of all the overlaps and relationships between all of an individual's fandoms".

I wanted to draw what fandom looked like to me, but of course, there are such a variety of relationships to represent that it's hard to know how to represent them in only two dimensions. Her own map here focuses on crossovers she's written, shared settings/creators/actors, and so on. But thegoldsky already made a different version representing how the groups of fans she knows have overlapped.

The first time I drew intuitively and ended up with a kind of ( organic and rather hectic mixture of these approaches and others. )

But I was dissatisfied with the lack of consistency in the ways the relationships between the fandoms were drawn, so my second attempt focuses more closely on qualities of the fandoms themselves. So this one is ( better planned. )

And that was unexpectedly time-consuming but very satisfying. Despite the fact that the second one is more careful and analytical and logical, I like the first approach better - I feel it captures more of my experience of fandom.