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QotD!

non_horation: man, learning a new language is way easier than walking past inanimate objects!

Only Tess... :p

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Today's random thing that annoys me more than it should:

People who refer to "the TPM fandom". I was reading something on metafandom, and the comments were all going on about seeing the subject of the post pop up in the TPM fandom. Now, I like to think I know how most of the common fandoms are referred to, even if I'm not in them. (Though I get annoyed who refer to Firefly as "FF", because that's Final Fantasy d*mmit! :P) I was totally lost as to the identity of this fandom... until halfway down the page, someone said something about Jedi. Why didn't they just SAY they were in the SW fandom and then specify which era they're interested in? I mean, everyone has their particular concentration in that fandom, but I've never seen any of the others call their fandom by the era instead of its ACTUAL NAME. You don't hear people talk about being in "the X-Wing fandom", it's always the SW fandom, and then mention that their primary interest is the X-Wing series (and who can blame them? :p).

ARE there other fandoms that have this problem?