I'm glad to see more people are exploring how fandom and academia, as far as they function socially, are much more alike than they are different
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and speaking of medievalist fan reactions, they got a lot of medievalism scholars coming to them in super white defensive mode about their quite powerful statement about why center this vs. that. Again, medievalists are not immune to replicating the patterns of toxic fan culture.
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Absolutely correct. That's why it's so important to have different voices demonstrating that even affective response doesn't all fall into the same patterns. I do feel like we're early enough in the process of theorizing medievalism that we can diverge from that toxicity.
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