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seerofbread) wrote2013-07-15 07:00 pm
seerofbread) wrote2013-07-15 07:00 pm
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I found this post which makes it sound like you'd have to choose between going to a con and going to see space which actually you don't. Not in the Doctor Who universe, anyway, but that is the assumption here so I think we're good on that.
Fandom is a big phenomenon. There are so many cons each year in the States and I don't pay much attention to those elsewhere (because relevance and also a little bit of jealousy) but long story short: the DW universe has humans in space. Humans aren't going to stop doing human things, you know? We'd still wear funny clothes and use weird hygiene products; I'm willing to bet that fandom changes over time but I'm also willing to bet that there are still fandom gatherings of some kind. Maybe almost completely unrecognizable! As different mediums and genres emerge as popular, people are going to do different things, and this'll probably get really different when you consider material availability--as humans gained the materials of other planets available and as they met with alien races who knew different techniques for processing materials, cosplay would get pretty different pretty fast. (Imagine if hologram technology could be used! OMG!)
Speaking of aliens, it's pretty likely that there'd be at least one alien con; especially considering how common it seems for aliens to be suspiciously human, it stands to reason that plenty of races would develop fiction, and it stands to reason that at least one of them would use it as a means of community. It would be about aliens displaying alien culture in an alien language--good thing you're on the TARDIS and you already understand it! Even if there weren't alien fandoms, it seems viable that at least one alien race would pick it up from humans, and probably wind up developing it in parallel with their own cultural preferences.
Also, since this would be in the future, you'd know exactly how much of an impact your current fandom had; you could traipse around in a cosplay or a shirt for your fandom and see what people say. Maybe they think you're an OC you're so obscure; maybe people think you're an AU because it's been rebooted so many times; maybe you get octuple the geek cred for being so accurate to the original time period!
Fandom is a big phenomenon. There are so many cons each year in the States and I don't pay much attention to those elsewhere (because relevance and also a little bit of jealousy) but long story short: the DW universe has humans in space. Humans aren't going to stop doing human things, you know? We'd still wear funny clothes and use weird hygiene products; I'm willing to bet that fandom changes over time but I'm also willing to bet that there are still fandom gatherings of some kind. Maybe almost completely unrecognizable! As different mediums and genres emerge as popular, people are going to do different things, and this'll probably get really different when you consider material availability--as humans gained the materials of other planets available and as they met with alien races who knew different techniques for processing materials, cosplay would get pretty different pretty fast. (Imagine if hologram technology could be used! OMG!)
Speaking of aliens, it's pretty likely that there'd be at least one alien con; especially considering how common it seems for aliens to be suspiciously human, it stands to reason that plenty of races would develop fiction, and it stands to reason that at least one of them would use it as a means of community. It would be about aliens displaying alien culture in an alien language--good thing you're on the TARDIS and you already understand it! Even if there weren't alien fandoms, it seems viable that at least one alien race would pick it up from humans, and probably wind up developing it in parallel with their own cultural preferences.
Also, since this would be in the future, you'd know exactly how much of an impact your current fandom had; you could traipse around in a cosplay or a shirt for your fandom and see what people say. Maybe they think you're an OC you're so obscure; maybe people think you're an AU because it's been rebooted so many times; maybe you get octuple the geek cred for being so accurate to the original time period!