random thought of the day

[wildestranger]

I was wondering, as you do, about People Outside Fandom (whom I know exist, but try to avoid), and their perception of fannish devotion. Or actually, I noticed my old Gary Oldman poster of "Have you seen this wizard?", and started thinking about whether, for people outside fannish circles, that would be more embarrassing than the poster of Gerard Way which I currently have on my wall. Note that I personally have no shame about either of them.

But considering that Harry Potter is a children's book, and that My Chem is seen as an emo band for silly teenage girls, which would be more embarrassing to find on the wall of a 29-year-old woman? How would our culture read the fact that I've had such posters - what would it say about me to those who are outside the fannish subculture?

Yes, I'm trying to avoid doing my thesis, how did you guess? ;)

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Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I had to consider this a long time, because neither of them seems really embarrassing enough... finally, I gave it to Gerard Way, because a) Sirius Black is played by Gary Oldman, who I admire greatly and b) I always want to call Gerard Way "Gerald" after a cute boy I knew years ago, and it would be really embarrassing to have a POSTER up of someone who you can't consistently call by the right name. :-)