FORKNI-L
Digest - 14 Mar 2012 to 15 Mar 2012 (#2012-36)
Thu, 15 Mar 2012
There is 1 message totalling 62 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. A faction for Marian Blackwing?
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:51:39 -0500
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: A faction for Marian Blackwing?
Nancy Kaminski wrote:
> With all due respect, I'm totally confused. As has been noted by
> other people, there never was a faction for Marian Blackwing, not even
> in the heyday of the list [snipped] I
> don't get it. Doesn't that screw up the history of the
> fandom?
Forever Knight fandom certainly does have its history, you're right. Once
upon a time there were no Cousins. Once upon a time, the faction for
Natalie was not called the NatPack. Once upon a time, people were arguing
over what to call the faction for Nick. A few years later, they were
proposing new factions for the Season Three characters, and discussing names
for them. Nowadays, these may all seem as though they've been around
forever; but--as you know, for you go back that far in the fandom--they all
had to start some time.
History is ever evolving--from the past, through the present, into the
future. The addition of a faction for Marian (whatever we collectively
decide to call it) in no way invalidates anything that has gone before. You
can read at least some of the FORKNI-L archives on Knightwind's Nook: the
history of the fandom is right there on line; and what happens on the list
today doesn't "screw up" any of those archived digests. The Wars of the
past can still be read; and, if most of the loops, lists, and groups are
pretty inactive, you can still look at many of the websites they created and
read the stories the members wrote. For that matter, the icons that I'm
making don't invalidate the symbols on the faction pins that were made for
Dead of Winter Con in 1995, nor the symbols that factions have created for
themselves since.
There is no invalidation, no loss, no subtraction--and no staying the same,
either. A living fandom is always adding. All factions have to start
somewhere; and, just because the fandom has not officially created a new
faction in years doesn't mean they're constrained never to do so ever again.
Why do it? People are, I think, mildly enjoying themselves. Isn't that the
point?
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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