My head is going firecrackers over this tumblr post from saathil013 that identifies fanac with the negative space of poetic enjambment, possibly because I have Keats' line about negative capability ("being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason") written down at the bottom of my desktop background so that I can always see it there under whatever other windows I've got open. I really, really like the idea of fandom as the inhabitation of negative space, because it gives me language for the common factor in the attraction to negative space that I tend to feel in my engagements with poetry, fanac, meditation, academia, and most of the other things that matter to me in my life.

Fen have the shiniest brains, y'all.