Well, fandom defines itself as 'group of people that love the same media output', originally. One is inclined to like what other people like.
But in meta-fandom like Milliways, overlap is only minimal. Anybody is entitled to their own opinion on the separate media phenomena people like. My eyes glaze over at discussion of the DC and Marvel superhero comics, and I go look at cat colouring charts instead (for example). I did read the graphic novel Madb took her version of Sir Nicholas from, because I was curious, but while the story itself was interesting and the artwork gorgeous, all the meta of all the charries being somebody else from the mainstream of superhero stories, and the fun in recognising how they'd been changed to fit the ideas of the time, went completely over my head.
That doesn't take away the fun my charries keep having with DC and Marvel characters in the bar since forever; but such are the special joys of Milliways.
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But in meta-fandom like Milliways, overlap is only minimal. Anybody is entitled to their own opinion on the separate media phenomena people like. My eyes glaze over at discussion of the DC and Marvel superhero comics, and I go look at cat colouring charts instead (for example). I did read the graphic novel Madb took her version of Sir Nicholas from, because I was curious, but while the story itself was interesting and the artwork gorgeous, all the meta of all the charries being somebody else from the mainstream of superhero stories, and the fun in recognising how they'd been changed to fit the ideas of the time, went completely over my head.
That doesn't take away the fun my charries keep having with DC and Marvel characters in the bar since forever; but such are the special joys of Milliways.