Now I understand how groups and friendships and alliances and inner-givemeabreak-circles are formed within a fandom. It's not the common interests, it's not the common attitude, it's not the common brainwave. It's people that have entered a fandom at approximately the same time. In the beggining they were newbies bonding in their general shyness and confusion, then there were the active members in their general blah and writing and analysis. Then they were the jaded bitches just glaring around at everyone after discussing the same thing a thousand times. Then they all return together in the pre-kindergarten state and start playing games and poking each other and making faces cause they realise absolutely nothing matters at all. Then they find a different fandom and start all over again. It's all about the timing. (c) penelope_z