What is Fandom?
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The community that surrounds a tv show/movie/book etc. Fanfiction writers, artists, poets, and cosplayers are all members of that fandom. Fandoms often consist of message boards, livejournal communities, and people.
The Harry Potter fandom has some of the most diverse fans, from eight year olds to thirty somethings.
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Fan Domain
A domain in the internet about a comic, a book, a tv show, a video game etc. There are several fandoms all around the internet, where fans converge and the comunities are really big, many have forums, fanfics, fanart, etc.
there are fandoms of X-men, X-Files, Harry Potter, Tomb Raider, Star wars, Star treck, Everquest, Sailor moon, Yugi-oh! etc...
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The microcosm made up of people who are fans of a fiction genre, or of a subgenre, who have their own clubs, conventions and amateur magazines (fanzines), dating back (in some cases) to the early 1930s. Some of these are overlapping. Star Trek fandom, for example, started in science fiction fandom and eventually became a separate fandom on its own. Comics fandom and even rock (music) fandom also started there before becoming separate entities.
Harry published one of the best fanzines in fandom back in the 1930s.
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In fanfiction; the movie, TV show, book or other medium that a fanfiction is written about.
Smallville and Harry Potter are very popular fandoms.
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the way a fan shows his dedication to whatever he's a fan of
my fandom is on display throughout my house
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In terms of any literary/visual media, be it TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or comic book. The characters, plots, and settings therein.
The X-men Fandom is made up by its original comic books and original cartoons as well as the new X-men:generation movies and cartoons.
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Fucking random.
Molly: OMG! IT'S A PIECE OF LETTUCE! -fandom scream-
Jessica: That was fandom...
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