Because you are you, and because this is beyond intriguing and distracting, and makes me say, "Dude, I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering about these things," you get a brief, brief pass on not working on #1!! But your pass is a day pass and will expire quickly:)

I often feel like my sense of fannish participation is largely limited to LJ because it allows me the type, level and quality of interaction that I crave, but then I rejected other activities almost immediately so my sense of scope is limited. I'm sure there are a slew of people who aren't on LJ, who might be lovely and intriguing additions to the fannish pot here, but I think that LJ draws people who have a different variety and scope of interests and who are intrigued by ways of sharing that personality and interest. You can be a fan here, but you also have to put something more into the pool, have to live up to certain expectations I think, which makes it interesting.

But the idea of other fannish circles (fans for the same media, forming their own interconnections and hierarchies and rules) is intriguing and likely and makes me wonder how they've chosen their ways of interaction and response to the media.