"BUILT-IN SAMPLING ERROR!" Muahaha! Oh, phrases that haunt an academic's nightmares...
I hear you about the fandom loyalty versus the academic rigor. The only published essays I wrote on fandom I wrote before I became an active fan, and they make me cringe now. Once I started to truly be part of fandom (I learned about fandom and slash from my classes, kind of the reverse of how most people would go about it!) I stopped being able to write about it, although I still see everything in it with an academic's eye...
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I hear you about the fandom loyalty versus the academic rigor. The only published essays I wrote on fandom I wrote before I became an active fan, and they make me cringe now. Once I started to truly be part of fandom (I learned about fandom and slash from my classes, kind of the reverse of how most people would go about it!) I stopped being able to write about it, although I still see everything in it with an academic's eye...