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  • Man, I could have sworn that Dave's post was about the concept of Fandamentalism in its many different incarnations, not about whether the Transformers TV show represents the crowning achievement of Western civilization.

    Fandamentalism David Campbell 2006

  • Related to these are rants on the Fantastic Four trailer and a new problem in genre writing, Fandamentalism.

    Archive 2005-02-13 Rogers 2005

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  • Writing for Vox in 2018, Emily VanDerWerff came up with a nice, pithy term for the “near-religious zealotry” that some fans exhibit: “fandamentalism.” According to her, the term applies to fans who “aren’t just looking for meaning in the work itself, but for the work to impart meaning” to their own lives.” Chrissy Stroop, “Stop Trying to Save Jesus: Fanamentalism Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism”. Religiondispatches.org, Jan 29, 2021.

    September 5, 2022