panfandom

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English

Etymology

From pan- +‎ fandom.

Adjective

panfandom (not comparable)

  1. Occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom.
    • 2008, Amelia Bitely, "'An Improbable Fiction': How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare", thesis submitted to Marietta College, page 70:
      scholars of fanfiction might instead question how this piece responds to the panfandom trend toward feminizing one male participant in a slash relationship (alluded to in Kustritz and Jenkins).
    • 2013, Casey Fiesler, “Pretending without a License: Intellectual Property and Gender Implications in Online Games”, in Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal, volume 9, number 1, pages 16–17:
      Additionally, the multiple-fandom affordances of Livejournal have made "panfandom" FRPGs quite common-in these games, characters come from across multiple media sources and converge in a single world.
    • 2014, Mary Frances Casper, “Family Don't End With Blood: Building the Supernatural Family”, in Lynn Zubernis, Katherine Larsen, editors, Fan Phenomena: Supernatural, page 92:
      Fan-run conventions such as 'Kazcon' (2007-09) and 'WinchesterCon' (founded as a Supernatural fandom event in 2007, and expanded to a panfandom event under the name 'Wincon' in 2010) []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:panfandom.