The shrine thing is very much the sort of thing I mean, as opposed to just the crying and grief (not to minimize, but it's the ritualistic aspect of the situation I'm focused on). Tara is always the focus of a lot of emotion in Buffy fandom, but there tends to be fewer obvious examples of this type surrounding her death (instead there anger, protests to the network/creators, etc).
One of my goals with this project, other than looking at the trends of who gets mourned for and why, is to show that these reactions aren't these freakish outliers. Honestly, the more I talk to people about this stuff, the more I hear, "I didn't know other people did this" or "I didn't know it was okay to do this, because once, I really wanted to."
And I can't tell people if it's okay or not. But I can say "Oh yeah, this totally goes on. A lot, even in the circumstances tend to be very specific."
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Date: 2010-09-08 10:22 pm (UTC)The shrine thing is very much the sort of thing I mean, as opposed to just the crying and grief (not to minimize, but it's the ritualistic aspect of the situation I'm focused on). Tara is always the focus of a lot of emotion in Buffy fandom, but there tends to be fewer obvious examples of this type surrounding her death (instead there anger, protests to the network/creators, etc).
One of my goals with this project, other than looking at the trends of who gets mourned for and why, is to show that these reactions aren't these freakish outliers. Honestly, the more I talk to people about this stuff, the more I hear, "I didn't know other people did this" or "I didn't know it was okay to do this, because once, I really wanted to."
And I can't tell people if it's okay or not. But I can say "Oh yeah, this totally goes on. A lot, even in the circumstances tend to be very specific."