Pondering Fandoms

Tag: doctor who

  • Examining Fandoms: Gatekeeping & Labeling

    Whenever I dip my toe (and inevitable fall face first into) a fandom, I enjoy seeing how they work from the inside and how people work together. Do people write fanfiction? Real-person fanfiction? Do they make fan-vids or other fanworks? What are the popular hashtags, inside jokes and memes? Do Big Name Fans (BNF) exist?…

  • Start the Music! Podcast – Overdue Intro & Liner Notes

    Hey! Did you know I do a biweekly music podcast called Start the Music! that plays music from all different genres as well as interviews? One of my reasons for starting a music podcast was to have the opportunity to talk to different people in different aspects of the music industry. Plenty of podcasts interview the…

  • Representation & My Search For the 13th Doctor of Bass Players

    I keep talking about music, in life and in this blog, because it’s what’s on my mind. I podcast about music, listen to as much music as I can (for the podcast and because I feel like I have 20 years’ worth to catch up on) and I love the fact that I’m practicing my…

  • Self Care: A Happy Things Post

    Hey there reader, doing OK? I know a lot of crap is going on right now regardless of where you live. Some places have it worse than others. We need to stand together, there’s a reason #resist and #persist have been trending on twitter and people are striking out to make sure their voices are heard.…

  • Star Trek TOS – A Change of Opinion

    I’m think I’m starting to become known as somewhat of a contrarian. That may be an understatement. I don’t usually set out to be seen that way, but it often happens. I enjoy not seeing something because everyone is recommending it. I generally end up seeing things in the wrong order and as is often…

  • Let’s Talk about Strong Female Characters: My Top 10 Kickass Ladies

    There’s been a lot of talk lately (and rightly so) about feminism, fandom and the lack of “strong” (3-dimensional, interesting, complex, REAL) female characters in mainstream media. The above quote has been going around for a long, long time and I encourage you to find similar quotes from female writers. I just adore that quote,…

  • Feeling Fake Fangirl Feels.

    I feel like an imposter or a fraud. Not quite. More like I feel like a fraud for calling myself a fangirl. A fake fangirl if you will. Let me explain. When I wrote “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being a Fangirl” it felt very important to me to reach out into the…

  • These Are a Few of My Happy Things…

    Disclaimer: I get that now maybe isn’t a good time to come out and say, “look at all these happy things!” but there never will be a good time. I hope they bring a little joy to others. One of the things I love about being on Verity! Podcast is the inclusion of our “happy…

  • My First Fandom: The Importance of The Phantom Menace

    Well, 2016 is here and with it a new theme for Verity! Podcast* and new topics to match that theme for us to talk about. Our theme this year is “firsts”, and it’s one I’m rather excited about because there is so much room to wander around. We have episodes to pick apart and experiences…

  • The Five Stages of Fandom

    I love the fandoms I take part in. They’ve brought me happiness, frustrated me, helped me through bad times and made me cry all while introducing me to friends and ideas I would have never met otherwise. While Doctor Who is my family fandom; the one I will always come back to, I also have Supernatural,…