Fangirls

Hello
Okay so this blog post has absolutely nothing to do with diabetes and actually comes from the teenager in me. So if you don't want to hear the musings of a 16 year old about the world of fangirls stop reading now.

So fangirling is a popular activity of many teenage girls, the male version is as you might have guessed fanboying. Now a lot of you probably won't have heard or know very little about the world of fangirls which can be complex and sometimes scary, so I will break it down for you. A fangirl is a girl who obsess over a particular book/TV series/Film/Actor/Fictional Character/Band. Sometimes the obsession becomes unhealthy but for many it is a way of expressing their love for said book/TV series/Film/Actor/Fictional Character/Band (Which is quite long so from now on will be referred to as BTFAFB.)

I consider myself a fangirl but not to the extremes of some and I came to the conclusion that there are different levels of fangirling.
Level 1. Complete Obsession. These fangirls/boys are unable to do much without relating it back to the BTFAFB. Can become a little over obsessed and will know absolutely everything about BTFAFB.

Level 2. Strong Obsession. These fangirls are strongly attached to their BTFAFB and know a huge amount about them/it.

Level 3. Mild Obsession, fangirls which are maybe new to the fandom(more on that in a mo) or do not feel such a strong attachment to BTFAFB. Will still know a lot more about the BTFAFB than your average human being.

Now there is nothing wrong with any of these levels nor does it make you any less of a fan of the BTFAFB it just means that is how much you have chosen to obsess over the BTFAFB. When a large group of fangirls start interacting with each other, generally over the internet through things like facebook, twitter and tumblr, a fandom is created. This is basically a comunity of people who share the same love for the BTFAFB, they make fan art which is art based on the BTFAFB or write fanfiction which are stories based on the characters of the BTFAFB. Now fanfiction can be VERY graphic and personally I don't like it as I want the characters to remain the same as in the original BTFAFB. Fandoms often have a  name so the Harry Potter fandom is called Potterheads, the Hunger Games fandom is called Tributes ect.

 Many fangirls will talk about shipping which is the pairing up of people from the BTFAFB and some is cannon and some is not. Cannon means it is part of the story so for example (HARRY POTTER SPOILER ALERT) Ginny and Harry getting together is part of the books so is cannon but Harry and Draco getting together is not, so is not cannon. The two characters names are often merged to form the couple name eg Hinny (Harry and Ginny), Romionie (Ron and Hermionie) and Drapple (Draco and an Apple). Finally fangirls have a OTP which stands for One True Pairing and is basically the fangirls favorite ship, so mine is Romionie but it is different for every fangirl.

There you go my very quick guide to a fangirl and when I say fangirl I also mean fanboys as well. Also one top tip never ever tell a fangirl that the fandom of BTFAFB is stupid, she is not responsible for her actions.

Rhona x