quandaries you only get in fandom...

[ratcreature]

Like, does Draco/Dementor count as slash? gen? het? See, I'm still tagging LJ art I come across for the LJ art link list, and you can't see the Dementor's private parts in the picture in question (whatever those may be--not that I particularly want to see Dementor genitalia). I went with slash in the end, but once again these categories show their drawbacks.

On another labelling issue: What is it with SGA RPS being simply categorized as SGA on rec and fiction pages and such? A couple of times now I've looked at SGA recs and the RPS was mixed among the SGA FPS as if it was the same fandom. I commented before that for me as a strict FPS fan it's inconvenient and counterintuitive when communities just mix the two categories like that there's plenty of SW fiction on ewan_hayden, even though I realize that it is convenient for people interested in both the actors and their shows/movies to combine the too when creating a forum, but on a recs or fiction site that has separate fandom sections I find it just wrong somehow that SGA and SGA RPS are put in the same section and that then is just labelled SGA not even "SGA & SGA RPS" or something.

Am I the only one who's so anal about such labels to be bugged by this? Also, I'm wondering whether this is like a growing trend in fandom, that the RPS and FPS for a group of actors are coming to be considered as the same fandom?

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[ratcreature]

Well, it's really more of a no-RL icon... ;)

I have to admit if I wouldn't see the names in fandom I probably wouldn't even recall the actors' names (even less than I do now that is), seeing how I usually fast-forward through the credits, so I'm probably on the extreme end of "not interested in the actors", e.g. I don't read/watch interviews with actors, I don't look for their other appearances etc.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

And I was actually wondering if your comic fannishness might be related to that. I.e., when I fall badly for a show, the actor interest kind of comes with it (for better or worse, b/c many a bad movie has been watched b/c od that :-). And it seems like that with a lot of other fans (even when they, like I clearly maintain the RL/fiction separation and really don't care about the actor qua person but do care about his/her roles etc.). Now I'm really curious how the percentages look like in actor interest...

..this calls for a poll!!! :D