what's a fangirl and beary good fun.

So the name of this blog is fangirl uncovered. I've not yet talked about fangirls and why I'm one of them.

I'll start by talking about fandom. Fandom is a following for a particular film, tv show, franchise or series of novels a bit like an umbrella. Under that umberella are fans of the show who basically want to celebrate how awesome their show is.  Identifying with a show; buying into it's premise and for me anyway feeling some kind of affection towards the show is all important. Fandoms are a bit like tribes although you can belong to many fandoms. You also get people right along the sanity spectrum from die hard fans who to be honest can be a little bit scary to more moderate and chilled fans who just enjoy getting invested in a tv show.

Fandom isn't all squee and biscuits, fandom also encompasses a heck of a lot of snarking about the show, generally about the writing and the direction of the show when it's going in a direction the fans don't like and generally because you can't please all of the people all of the time a show is bound to be upsetting someone somewhere.  There's also an element of snobbiness, my fandom is better than yours. But for the most part fandom is a pretty positive place and there is a great deal of creativity that goes on within it.

So what are fangirls? Literally a female within a fandom doesn't matter if you're eight or eighty. What do fangirls do? They are creative: they write fic, they make vids, they make fan art, they make graphics, they discuss themes and plot intricacies. Some fangirls (relation)ship a pairing but by no means all and within shipping it can get pretty insane. For example in the Harry Potter fandom, there are groups which ship Harry and Ginny, there a groups which ship Harry and Hermione. It doesn't stop there, there are groups which ship Snape and Harry and the list goes on.... Dean Thomas and Blaise Zabini? I'm sure there's fic out there...

I identify as fangirl because I do over obsess about some shows, films and books, you may have noticed. I write and I've dabbled in writing fic and no I'm not linking to any from here. But when I really get into a fandom what I really want to do is make a bear. No, that isn't a euphemism. I go to a build-a-bear store and I select a bear and I try and make that bear as much like the character in the show that I can.

So without further ado...

Claire bear.

From 2010-08-11

Peter Petrelli Puppy

From 2010-08-11

Lee Adama Bear

From 2010-08-11

Matt Albie Owl

From 2010-08-11

And it's great, bears are awesome. I went to a con with Lee bear and the BSG peeps there totally loved the bear, I thought that Kate Vernon was going to bear nap him. And with that in mind I've got a new fandom that is making me very happy. I am of course talking about Sherlock and I really need to make a Sherlock Bear.  I'm going to document my bear making quest so you can see just how bonkers I am.