As you say above, if you're thought of as a BNF, you are one... But as the whole negative HP thing (and other nastinesses that I know of that occurred in B7 fandom) has shown, there seem to be two kinds of BNF: the ones who don't care whether they are a BNF or not, and get well known by the hard work they do, and others, who also do much hard work, but who do care whether they are a BNF and how much they can influence other fans opinions.
Casting my mind back to Deliverance '98, and the promos you folk were doing for the first Redemption ("After Deliverance comes Redemption") and the negativity that was stirred up afterwards, I think Diane Gies percieved you as a threat to her own BNF kingdom -- so she surely considered you to be a rival BNF.
But you are the first sort of BNF -- the kind who works hard and is more interested in getting the job done than how much fame you get. {hugs}
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But as the whole negative HP thing (and other nastinesses that I know of that occurred in B7 fandom) has shown, there seem to be two kinds of BNF: the ones who don't care whether they are a BNF or not, and get well known by the hard work they do, and others, who also do much hard work, but who do care whether they are a BNF and how much they can influence other fans opinions.
Casting my mind back to Deliverance '98, and the promos you folk were doing for the first Redemption ("After Deliverance comes Redemption") and the negativity that was stirred up afterwards, I think Diane Gies percieved you as a threat to her own BNF kingdom -- so she surely considered you to be a rival BNF.
But you are the first sort of BNF -- the kind who works hard and is more interested in getting the job done than how much fame you get. {hugs}