There are good ways and bad ways to mention various fandoms without being obvious about it. Mentioning Miranda's sixty-month mission to explore strange worlds should identify it as a Trekkie ship without actually invoking Roddenberry's ghost, for example.
Likewise, the Potterites are going to become "modern-magic" fans. J.k. Rowling doesn't have a monopoly on the concept, as Charles de Lint could attest.
Obviously, I'm not writing this article today, or even this week. I'll have a (short) while to come up with something...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Likewise, the Potterites are going to become "modern-magic" fans. J.k. Rowling doesn't have a monopoly on the concept, as Charles de Lint could attest.
Obviously, I'm not writing this article today, or even this week. I'll have a (short) while to come up with something...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012