making up fannish stuff, for posterity and beyond!

[sab]

All you all should be coming over to help edit fanlore.org. It's very easy to log in, and then those of us who toil over there would love some toiling help. For example, there's hardly any info on the "West Wing" page; come fill it up, and bring your favorite fics!

Also, for semantics purposes; help me with these questions below? Answer with the term you would most frequently use, or answer with the term you have most frequently heard if you don't prefer one answer over the other.

[Poll #1296784]

ETA: Comments! Keep 'em coming!

Love,
Sab

Comments

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I have trouble with this poll, because my answer to the questions is basically:

1) multimedia
2) multifandom
3) crossover
4) Both

"Multimedia" is what I was fannishly "raised" to use to mean what a lot of fans now term "multi-fandom," in reference to both vids and zines. Kind of. But in some areas of fandom, perhaps particularly those of fans who've been in fandom for 10+ years/whose participation predates largely online fandom, it's still fairly common, at least in my experience.

I'd be more likely to use multimedia to describe a zine (text and art) or a vid (song and visuals and/or multiple media sources) than an online archive, which tend to be solely text. So I'd be more likely to say a "multimedia vid" or "multimedia zine," but a "multifandom archive."

And I probably wouldn't use either term for a crossover; I'd just call it a crossover. :)