December Daily: fandom traditions

mekare -- favorite fandom traditions.

For the past three years my family has been going to WisCon, which is thrilling and exhausting and leaves me in a post-extroverting stupor for quite a while afterwards.

But my very favorite fandom tradition would have to be Yuletide.

Recently I read that when a feudal lord suspected one of his vassals of wanting to plot a coup, he and all his household would descend upon that vassal for a visit. This would be a high honor for the vassal, but incredibly expensive, and leave him without enough money to pay an army.

We sometimes talk about fandom as a gift economy, and so I began to wonder whether Yuletide drains off enough fannish energy to leave some trolls without the energy to mount whisper campaigns, attempt to "cancel" anyone, or otherwise wreak mayhem?

Well, a person can dream.



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