Neat thing

[independence1776]

dawn_felagund participated in an audio thing (podcast? online radio episode? not exactly my ballpark here) about Silmarillion fanfiction with the BBC! It's just under half an hour long, has another fan-scholar focusing on Boys Love ("the biggest genre of fanfiction in Japan and South-East Asia," to quote the blurb), and was definitely a fascinating, birds-eye-view about two specific parts of fanfic fandom. Highly recommend!

The part that had me nodding in commiseration? Dawn mentioned that when she first began posting her first fic, she thought with every chapter she was afraid she'd be revealed as a fraud. I got over that pretty quickly into my time in the Silm fandom... but that was when it was tiny, mostly contained on LJ and the SWG, and it was possible to know or know of almost everyone active in the fandom. Now? That fear of being revealed as a fraud is back and has been back for years, not helped by the fact that I don't know what current Silm fandom is doing, is interested in, or hates. I generally don't care to follow fanon (witness not including Maedhros in with the Maglor raising Elrond and Elros years (also me hating the name "kidnap fam")), but not knowing if I'm going to get yelled at is... bad. And that I haven't read the Silmarillion cover-to-cover in years. So yeah. Fraud.