
Saved by Sixian
Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Saved by Sixian
This style of self-aware acquiescence to an irrational passion may always have been part of the screaming fangirl experience.
Though the criticism of fangirls is that they become tragically selfless and one-track-minded, the evidence available everywhere I look is that they become self-aware and creatively free.
Fans are engaged in archival work all the time because they’re always engaged in a conversation of “remember when,” presenting and building on their own oral history.