Sigh... true confession time... I Was a Teenage Potter-Freak...
Is it odd to say a large part of my current fandom is nostalgia? And memories of the best summer of my life so far?
LOL! Well, I confess I was a Teenage Tolkien/D&D/Spiderman/X-Men/Bruce Lee Freak, so I guess that's approximately equivalent for male geeks :)
Is it odd to say a large part of my current fandom is nostalgia? And memories of the best summer of my life so far?
I imagine nostalgia accounts for a lot of fandom. I think for example that's true of Star Wars: I have huge nostalgia for that movie, but I've talked to older SF fans who can't understand what the fuss is. I suspect that probably also accounts for why I don't mind Rankin-Bass and Bakshi as much as some :) For me they're associated with nostalgia from when I first discovered Tolkien.