Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Questions
Thanks to Alan, Dr. Mike, and Scissors MacGillicutty (alphabetical order there) for helping out on the Daria Encyclopedia 1.0. We are now at over 200 articles of varying lengths, and rising....
If you want to help with the encyclopedia, I wrote a mini-tutorial right here . Wiki questions will also be answered in this thread - not immediately, mind you, but eventually, so have patience.
Links to both encyclopedias will be added on the left links side.
Incidentally, last night, while I was trying to sleep, two questions about Daria fandom itself came to my mind.
1) Why has Daria fandom never had a true convention? Deref was kind enough to visit several Daria fans this year, and there have been multiple "mini-cons", but how come there's never been a yearly convo of one sort or another? Is it because
a) the fandom's too small,
b) the fandom's too young/too poor,
c) no one is interested, or
d) some other reason?
2) How come there are currently no gay males in Daria fandom? When reading the SFMB's...uh...hidden sections, there's a lot of talk about homosexuality and lesbianism...among females. And I think at least one female Daria fan has outed herself as a lesbian or as a bisexual at the least.
However, I only remember one male fan who outed himself as at least bisexual, and I don't think he's active in the fandom any more. Is the reason:
a) that the fandom would be threatening to a gay male, or,
b) gay males just aren't into Daria?
# posted by James @ 6:42 AM 
