61 Quotes About Fandom
- Author Rainbow Rowell
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Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One."Your sister doesn't."When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians.""Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.
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- Author Tumblr
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A shipper thrives on emotional scraps, stolen glances and did-they-or-didn't-they tension.
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- Author Jerry Garcia
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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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- Author Henry Jenkins
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Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
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- Author Michael Joseph-Gross
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Fandom is less like being in love than like being in love with love.
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- Author Alice Oseman
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She definitely wasn't what I thought she was.''She wasn't a maniacal fan, you mean?''She was a maniacal fan, but I don't think the maniacal fans are what I thought they were. Well, not all of them, anyway.''They're just a bit normal, really,' I say.'Or we're all weird.''You can say that again.
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- Author Lynn S. Zubernis
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At the same time, whenever a group of people comes together, there are issues of social standing, popularity, norms and identity on which they will inevitably not agree. Fandom is no exception.
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- Author Emma Mills
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The thing about fic is that is comes from love. Characters you love so much, that you feel so deeply for, you'll watch them fall in love a thousand different ways, over and over.
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- Author Jacquelyn Middleton
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The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.
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