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1. Henry Jenkins is awesome. I want to have his job when I grow up. And he's gonna have a new and interesting dialogue about and between fanboys and fangirls on his blog this summer. *bookmarks* I have a huge list of new fandom/fanthropology books and articles to read now.

2. Just a thought that kept recurring during the Shipping the Velvet slash panel. Why must slashers' ideas of fanfiction follow the traditional romance novel pattern: fall in love/lust, get married, have babies? (And while we're talking about babies, one of the panelists mentioned some SPN mpreg, in which Dean was the "mother". WTF? *bleaches eyeballs*)

3. The presentation on Mary Sues and slash and gender envy? Had to leave before I threw something at the lecturer.

4. The Drunk Eaters? Scary. Especially Bellatrix.

5.

ariadne1's roundtable on Granger/Snape and

titti's panel on Snape slash this afternoon. Off to be a fandom geek. :)

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The AB: VH archive is Pomme de sang (http://pommedesang.com/efiction/index.php).

Reading list:

1. Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women.
2. Ehrenreich et al., The Adoring Audience
3. Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide , Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age, and The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
4. Alex Doty, Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon (Paperback)
5. Film, feminism, and science fiction, Penley et al (ed)
6. Sheenagh Pugh, The democratic genre: Fan fiction in a literary context
7. Theorizing fandom: Fans, subculture and identity, Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander (eds)

There are some more specific journal articles Jenkins mentioned, but I don't know if maybe some of their contents are re-hashed in the various collections of essays listed above, especially his two most recent, Convergence and The Wow Climax. I'll have to check the books and see.