The new Dead Siren blog asks the question: What is the difference between Fandom with a capital F and simple imagination and are either a bad thing? And one of the editors called Sexy Fandom “just my sorta site.”

The Museum of Hoaxes has a listing of the top 100 April Fools Day pranks. Included are the BBC convincing people that spaghetti grows on trees in Switzerland or Discover Magazine describing the new hotheaded naked ice borer species in Antarctica which could bore through ice using the heat of the blood vessels near the bony plate in its head.

It is pretty common for people to forget it is April first and believe various peculiar stories printed by their favorite, usually accurate publications. So I’m only amused and not disturbed that so many of you believed that Sexy Fandom was acquired by The Science Fiction Channel. I’m a little disappointed, however, by how many people wrote and told me essentially to stay strong against any sell-out criticisms because, no matter how much the blog got sucky, the important thing was that I was making a lot of money.

While I’m touched by your concern for my finances, I already make a lot of money. I do this blog for fun. I’m a TV writer, so obviously I’m for sale on some level, but it would take a whole lot of money for me to sell. This is supposed to be my venue to explore things I couldn’t normally. So, while I’m not wholly closed to being showered with cash, I would hope my readers would care if the character of SexyFandom.com changed. Money is nice, but it is not an excuse for bad behavior. If it were, then we wouldn’t have laws to put bank robbers in prison.

Altporn.net was one of the first sites I ever linked from Sexy Fandom, so odds are that regular readers have probably checked it out before. You have probably noticed the new tagging system on the site here. The tags are the little key word links beneath various posts which lead you to related posts when clicked. Tags are another way for people to navigate a web site and to find web sites with content of interest. I understand that Ed Roth from Altporn was responsible for my exciting new tagging system and I wanted to send him a big Sexy thank you.

If you must have CFIDS, it probably is not a terrifically good idea to drink a lot. That will be all. Yes, I did have a nice time ringing in the New Year. Thank you for asking.

Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, dukedom, etc.) refers to a community of keen aficionados who share a common interest in any phenomenon, such as authors, hobbies, genres or fashions. Fandom as a term can also be use to refer to the single interconnected network of these individual fandoms, many of which overlap.

Fans (or the plural fen) typically are interested in even minor details of the object of their fandom; this is what differentiates them from those with only casual interest.

The objects of a fandom typically relate to the arts, sports or entertainment. For example, it would be unusual to refer to an accountant who is very interested in the details of accounting as a “fan” of accounting.

Members of a fandom associate with one another, often attending fan conventions (such as science fiction conventions), and publishing and exchanging fanzines. Today, these communities are often online, especially for less well-known source material.

Some fans also write fan fiction, stories based around the universe and characters of their chosen fandom. Some also dress in costumes (”cosplay”) or recite lines of dialogue either out-of-context or as part of a group reenactment.

The term “fandom” is particularly associated with fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres, a community that dates back to the 1930s and has held the World Science Fiction Convention since 1939. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the usage of the term back as far as 1903, with many of its documented references referring to sports fandom.

The term is also commonly associated with anime/manga. Serious fans of this subject are also called otaku.

“Fandom” is also the name of a documentary / mockumentary about a fan obsessed with Natalie Portman. (via Wikipedia)

fandom (n.) antedating 1896 Washington Post, Oct 10, 1896, the world of enthusiasts for some amusement or for some artist; also in extended use. (via Science Fiction Citations)

As you, gentle readers, have no doubt already discerned, I am back from the San Diego Comic Con. ComicCon is always great for business for me. I got a new very lucrative gig doing scripts for a children’s animated fantasy show. Sort of outside what I generally work on, but the price was right. I had flyers for Sexy Fandom out at the convention, but I had to be incognito for professional reasons, which all felt sort of weird. This is the first year I’ve been doing both things and there is not usually that much crossover between my work work and my fun work. Courtesy of Blue Blood and Sword and Stone and Morrigan Hel, the flyers I had were so beautiful that I wanted to show them off to everyone. You can click here to see their glory.

Okay, I’ve added Bloglines now. Any other feed aggregators you faithful readers would like me to support?

I just added a bunch of little chiclets to the lower left hand side of the page if you would like to see what I am writing about over here at Sexy Fandom on your personal newsreader. So far, I have My Yahoo, Livejournal, Newsgator, My MSN, Feedburner, Feedster, and Kinja. Thanks to the readers who sent me info on how to fix my RSS feed for Yahoo. If there are any other feed services you would like to see on here, please just drop me a line and suggest them.

I even got a new button made to have on this topsites listing. This size of button is apparently called “friends” which I think is kind of cute.

I’m not sure if it is any good, but I made an animated button myself based on one of the banner designs my friend made for me. I was going to join this fantasy topsites, but, after I went through all the trouble to try to teach myself how to make a button, I found out that the topsites in question autocensors the word sex, so no site called sexy anything was going to get approved. I couldn’t even apply. The funny thing is that I don’t even show any nudity, not even topless drawings, and the topsites I was applying too had almost all naked buttons on it. Just not the word sex I guess.

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If anyone knows any good science fiction or fantasy topsites for me to check out, please email me and give me a tip about them. Sexy horror is nice too, but please don’t send me anything too brutal. I don’t have the stomach for the really hardcore stuff with people getting eviscerated in slo-mo and everything.

If you’ve been dying to link to SexyFandom graphically, instead of with text, my friend made some nice standard sized 468 pixels by 60 pixels banners you can use to link here.

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Welcome to SexyFandom.com. I decided to work on a web site for adults who enjoy science fiction and other areas of fandom because I truly believe it is not just a medium for children. I write for television, but I don’t watch it much. I live in a house just north of Los Angeles with a yard just big enough for my dog. She is an Old English Sheepdog, but my husband and I keep her shaved because of the warm weather here. I used to go to cons a lot, but I don’t look as good in a fur bikini as I used to. Now I mostly sit at the computer, earning my daily bread and eating it. I have CFIDS, but am fortunate enough to have a job which allows me downtime when I need it. Some of my favorite authors are William Gibson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Amelia G, Cecilia Tan, Thomas S. Roche, Francesca Lia Block, Douglas Adams, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Harlan Ellison. There is no nudity on this site, but links may very well contain naughty bits. Surf at your own risk.