Penny wrote: <What do you consider qualifies one to be a member of a show's "fandom"? Watching it faithfully? Participating in online discussion about it? Writing fanfic, buying action figures, erecting shrines, making sacrifices?>
Ummm ... that makes me a B7-only fan; though I was a faithful view of Dr Who Nos 2 to 5, viewing was as far as I got.
I loved Cadfael. I bought all the books. I bought the books before I saw the TV shows, but I loved the TV show more. Does that count? (Of course, 'tis rather hard to imagine a Blake/Cadfael cross, though Certain Crewmembers would look nice in tights).
Though I suppose the part of me that is forever 11 years old, and went rather overboard on the Asterix gimmicks in France :-) counts too. I even bought the film, though it's in French and I don't understand a word. Don't care, it's still hysterical - Gerard Depardieu makes Gunn-Sar look subtle. (But I didn't have room for the fluffy toy wild boar, mutter grumble. I wonder what a fluffy toy Og or Brian the Spider would be like?)
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