I love that essay too. That works very well with the metaphor of fandom as tapestry.
Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream is the one I think about, which talks about hierachy and bonding, popular in professional writing and fanfic. It let me see that the alpha/beta/omega thing is a way to reproduce the intimatopia.
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Date: 2012-09-03 04:22 am (UTC)Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream is the one I think about, which talks about hierachy and bonding, popular in professional writing and fanfic. It let me see that the alpha/beta/omega thing is a way to reproduce the intimatopia.