Sublime

Refocalization may be the only way of redeeming characters who are inconsistently characterized;

popular

broad reach,

Repeated viewings have placed increased attention on these narrative gaps and kernels, requiring their fuller integration into the fans’ metatextual comprehension

fan writers do not so much reproduce the primary text as they rework and rewrite it, repairing or dismissing unsatisfying aspects, developing interests not sufficiently explored.

Here, the description allows readers to experience both men’s growing desire and to participate within their erotic fantasies.

Both modes of reception reflect not innate qualities of television but rather the very different social relationships maintained by specific groups of viewers in the context of domestic consumption:

links to feminist and queer theory you draw above are essential, because fan studies remains deeply indebted to both fields.

“networked individualism.”