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One interesting thing about this new fandom: it's actually an interconnected, tangled mess of interlocking fandoms, many of which have been updating once a week for six years or more. Just under the umbrella of Channel Awesome alone, there are literally dozens of reviewers, with about sixteen "core" ones (counting some of the ones who have since left the site but whose archives still exist elsewhere), all of whom have at least four years' worth of back material and some of whom have as many as eight.
That is to say, I think of all my fandoms only Doctor Who has this much back canon. Even only following about eight of them for their current output (is that right? Loose Canon, Brows Held High, Todd in the Shadows, Rap Critic, Phelous, Cinema Snob, Linkara, Bennett the Sage, and Film Brain, so nine, and I'm keeping tabs on Marzgurl, Diamanda Hagan, and Obscurus Lupa but not making an attempt to keep caught up because not everything they review interests me, and Foldable Human isn't currently updating but I'll be following him again when he starts back up; ah, gods, its worse than I thought), I'm probably never going to get caught up completely, any more than I am all of the Classic Who I didn't catch when it was on the local PBS station. And that's with me choosing off the bat to ignore most of the videogame reviewers completely, and to punt on the question of Spoony until I find out how exactly much of his show I need to watch to fill out Linkara's storyline.
And you know, that's okay. Normally I slurp an entire canon before writing, but given that only the anniversary crossover Awesomeverse and Atop The Fourth Wall (and possibly the Spoony Experiment, but see above) seem to have enough shared world to support fic, I don't think I have to do that this time. For most of the reviewers outside of the anniversary Awesomeverse, it'll be meta rather than fic anyway. But this will be an interesting experiment in fannish uncertainty for me.
That is to say, I think of all my fandoms only Doctor Who has this much back canon. Even only following about eight of them for their current output (is that right? Loose Canon, Brows Held High, Todd in the Shadows, Rap Critic, Phelous, Cinema Snob, Linkara, Bennett the Sage, and Film Brain, so nine, and I'm keeping tabs on Marzgurl, Diamanda Hagan, and Obscurus Lupa but not making an attempt to keep caught up because not everything they review interests me, and Foldable Human isn't currently updating but I'll be following him again when he starts back up; ah, gods, its worse than I thought), I'm probably never going to get caught up completely, any more than I am all of the Classic Who I didn't catch when it was on the local PBS station. And that's with me choosing off the bat to ignore most of the videogame reviewers completely, and to punt on the question of Spoony until I find out how exactly much of his show I need to watch to fill out Linkara's storyline.
And you know, that's okay. Normally I slurp an entire canon before writing, but given that only the anniversary crossover Awesomeverse and Atop The Fourth Wall (and possibly the Spoony Experiment, but see above) seem to have enough shared world to support fic, I don't think I have to do that this time. For most of the reviewers outside of the anniversary Awesomeverse, it'll be meta rather than fic anyway. But this will be an interesting experiment in fannish uncertainty for me.