Fandom

Write a blog post and discuss a fan community that you belong to. Describe this fan community, it preoccupations and interests, its obsessions. What are the values and narratives shared by this community? What are the central cultural works that serve as binders and reference points for this community?

Fan community is a mystery to me and I am not sure why people all gather for certain interests. Cosplay is also one thing that I don't understand. I've never been apart of an interest that makes me revolve my time around interacting with other people interested in the same thing. Other than art school. Art school is a fandom community almost. People don't understand why your going to school for art or how your going to make money at it. They also are a little skeptical. You are apart of the I went to "art school" group after.

Although I'm not really apart of a fan community and don't follow anything where I got into a group online, I did follow the tv show House. I watched it from start to finish, but I've never done anything other than look on imdb.com for information about the show or facts for behind the scenes. So I know very little about the fan community.

I do know of some of the things that fans are interested in though by watching the extras on my DVD. There's a large group of people that are interested in the idea of the main characters being together romantically. Both the female and the male friend are people that they want house to get with. Hugh Laurie/House is the main character and he is friends with a guy named Wilson. They are both doctors and their boss's name is Cuddy. Cuddy and Wilson are the main people that the fans wanted to have sexual relationships with House together. Hugh Laurie was interested in letting that play out but Robert Sean Leonard wasn't ok with it. Im not sure if the writers ever thought about it. House was always teasing Wilson as if he were his lover sometimes and that's probably why people obsessed with it. But the fans did get a little Huddy action. It didn't last long but it ruined the relationship on screen and some fans were enraged by it.

The values were probably do what ever the crap you want. He's rude, smart and witty. That's what people loved about him. The other thing that people loved the idea of was to have Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory have a battle of the wits together. Which would have brought a few randoms together for a bit. I have only seen a few episodes of the Big Bang Theory, but even with only seeing that it would be really fun to see those two go at it.

I do appreciate that there is a place for people to enjoy the same things and gather in an environment that totally gets them. It's also like going to a concert and being with people that love the same band to me. Which is a really fun experience.

In class

Identities are fragile things; you set up a dividing line in your life that can collapse in an instant, that can never be reestablished. You yourself have already come close to the secret so many times, come so close to stumbling into the clandestine global conflict that is my nightly pursuit. In this passage you see the use of a line as many symbolisms. It can be seen as the straight and narrow, which the person didn't follow. A life form and and fragile they are or just how easily they can change. The "can never be reestablished" is also reminiscent towards no matter how hard you try you can never make a line the exact same ever. Once it's there, unless you change it or erase it it won't change. But remaking it will never get the same results. Just this one section really uses a lot of symbolism and the rest of the writing surly has more packed into it.  

The connections that I make are that it has to do with villains and super heroes. It makes me think of comic books and also Megamind. Megamind is all about a villain dating a girl that doesn't know who he "truly" is and then later breaks up with him. So the whole time I was thinking about the way that the villain was just like Megamind and how pompous he was. Also how the character acted to his "work". When the character in the paper was discussing the way he was interchanging the roles of the suites and the reason he was acting funny it made me think of how Megamind also interchanged. The thing though that made more sense with Megamind though was that the story was shown and then you also had the background of what he was thinking.

Since it reminds me so much of an already movie I think that it would be ok as a short or maybe a open mic poetry night. Maybe a short play. I would make the writing less vague because I was, and am, still confused as to what is going on. Throughout the piece I was wondering how long it was and why this person was giving vague back stories to stories I didn't have a clue about. Maybe if there was the other side to the story and then you saw the side of his story. It would be interesting if it was a poetry night though where there was both sides.