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snowflake_challenge going around seems fun, so here's me jumping in. I kinda started writing this on Day 8 and was going to work backwards, but then I got distracted and it's now Day 14, so... here's Day 8 and Day 7, and I'll probably jump around from there. :P
Day 8. Talk about setting a fannish goal
Day 7. Share Something Non-Fannish
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theonesyoulove * ) and the one comm on DW also has no traffic. I always wonder if its an advertising problem (word didn't get around to a broad enough group of fans that the comms existed) or if I'm just in the minority, and most fans really have no interest in discussing their tastes outside of a specific fandom environment, comparing notes on fandoms that lend themselves to h/c, etc. It's a bit of a bummer, really.( {{SNIP FOR RAMBLY SQUEE}} )
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tygermama picked : Andromeda, One Piece, Fantastic Four/Marvel Comics
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
Sorry I got so verbose.
( One Piece )
My Netflix queue spit out the old Disney "Davy Crockett" series with Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen, and I watched it over the weekend for a bit of nostalgia.
I now remember why this stuck with me enough to put it in the queue to begin with... it's got some lovely buddy-ship chemistry between Davy and Georgie, despite the rather gee-shucks corniness of the whole thing. There's this bit where the two are walking through a forest and Georgie is singing the Davy Crockett song, and Davy has this sort of fond exasperation about it that just speaks volumes. Makes me squee a smidge. *g*
I wants me some fic.
(It does feel a bit odd to be getting a squishy like this over *Buddy Ebsen*, though. I mean, dude, it's Jed Clampett! And Barnaby! Barnaby, fer chrissakes! I feel like I ought to be making a fandom!Secrets post or something. ^_^)
Well, I was feeling hypocritical after pushing AO3 at Bast a couple weeks ago, while having to admit that I hadn't joined yet myself... so I went and got myself all AO3'd up. I haven't decided what to do about drabbles yet, but my handful of "real" fic is now archived in one place for posterity. :)
The process made me look a little harder at my old Sentinel things than I have in a quite a while, and that was... not as awful as I expected. Clunky, eminently forgettable writing, yes, but enough little "A-ha! That bit's good." moments to keep them from being complete embarrassments.
It is odd, though, to think about how invested I was in Blair back in the day. He's obviously a world-class h/c-magnet, so it makes *sense* that I'd ping onto him. But when I think about TS nowadays, my focus is very much on Jim and his issues. Blair is tied up in those issues, yes, but I don't really have that "Let's whump Blair and see Jim go ballistic" urge anymore. I should pull out the DVD's and revisit this series. I'm really curious now how it will go over if I'm not watching through a Blair-whump filter. (Or if the filter will come back once I freshen my memory. ^_^ )
"The Losers" looks eff-in' awesome!
I've just watched the trailer three times in a row, and it just gets more squee-inducing with each watch. It gives almost a sense of a live-action anime in the combination of sheer kick-ass awesome and humor... which I guess is close, since it's apparently a comics adaptation. Chris Evans' character is *clearly* made for me to fangirl over. :)
I wish I was more skilled at maneuvering in the world of comics. I'm intrigued enough to want to check out the source material, but I'm not looking forward to the quagmire of confusion I always end up in when I go hunting for something like this.
fannish5:Today's episode of Real Drive fucking ROCKS.
Souta Aoi is giving Ken Hidaka a serious run for his money in the "anime characters Jenny is most obsessed with" derby.
And shipping him with Holon? Made of awesome.
I'm not usually one to get all excited by "cool fight scenes", but the fights in this series are really interesting. Maybe it's just that they use a few more realistic-sounding thwacks and grunts or something, but there's an immediacy to them that's much more interesting than your usual stylized anime fight. I love it.
I'm having a bit of a re-awakening of my "Highlander" fandom the last couple weeks. I received the Season 4 set as part of my order from DeepDiscount's 20%-off sale, and actually watched an episode or two, instead of just putting it away on the shelf the way I usually end up doing with these "backfill" type buys.
Since then, I've been working my way through the best of Richie Ryan in fairly random order, and it's been a rather bittersweet experience. On the one hand, all my swoony love for this show is back in full force, and I've been finding or revisiting some great fanfic for the first time in ages. But there's also a bit of grieving going on that the show's been over for so long. It's like looking through photos of dead loved-ones. Remembering the good times, but also grieving that you won't ever make new memories. *sniffle*
It's also got me back to thinking about wanting a fandom "meetup" comm or something. It would be nice to have someone local to share this sort of thing with. None of my current friends/family have that squeeful-obsessive-fannish gene, but marathoning shows like this would be way more fun with company.
(Boy, my LJ's been rather random lately. =P)
On a "gen" fanfiction mailing list recently, there's been discussion about trying to increase the traffic on the list with doing theme weeks or assigning people to do fic recs a la crack_van. I started feeling guilty and wanting to participate more, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that I don't really have that many "gen" fics among my favorites these days. I might come up with a handful of "mostly gen" Weiss recs, I guess, but all my other fandoms are either so small that there's barely any worthwhile fic out there at all, or else so committed to one or two pairings that the concept of gen-fic barely enters the fandoms consciousness (or, more often, a combination of both of those issues.)
I think I was so spoiled by my first fandom (The Sentinel had a fairly iron-clad divide between the slash and gen sides of the pool, and the gen side had enough quality writers contributing to it that you didn't need to go hunting for slash to fill the need for good fic.) Thanks to TS, I still go into every new fannish love subconsciously expecting to find big pointy arrows saying "Gen This Way--->" and am always rather surprised when I find out that the reason there are no pointy arrows is that there is no gen-fic to speak of. :(
It's not that I don't do slash. I wouldn't give up my Aya/Ken for anything. But there are times when you just want something more than another shipper story, y'know. *sigh*
(*cough* This has nothing to do with my complete failure to find any decently written Riley h/c in National Treasure fandom. Honest. *cough* )
Just a quick inventory of shows, books, etc. that have hit me in a fannish way. I tend to gravitate more toward individual characters rather than particular pairings, probably because I'm still very gen-oriented, especially in regards to live action fandoms, so pairings aren't quite as much of a deal. Thus, in most cases, I'm listing my OTC, rather than an OTP.
I haven't spent too much time digging for stories in most of these, so I'm ending up rambling a bit on what I like/dislike/wish-I-could-find in what fic I *have* come across.
These are in brainstorming order, so completely random except that I probably thought of fandoms I like most earliest.
Oh, man, I am *so* enjoying this.
I used to fancy myself an adequate writer back in the day, but my weakness has always been the long game. My plotting just sucks. I can usually manage to capture a single scene pretty well... I like to think I've got a decent command of the language, decent ear for dialog, etc. But figuring out how to get characters from Point A to Point Z along a plausible and interesting path always stumped me.
So, this idea of drabbling as it's own little artform is wunderbar! This focus on capturing a moment or scene to perfection within guidelines...it's almost like a poetry/fiction crossbreed.
My couple pieces this week have been very satisfying in a "get back on the horse" kinda way. Don't know if I'll have the nerve to write anything once the relative freedom of the "crossover" theme is over and it's back to just the Weiss universe, but I am *so* enjoying all the variety in challenge approaches from the community on the whole. Heart-breaking drama one moment, terrific silliness the next. I'm obsessed. :)
I wish I had the nerve and "cred" to try starting a thread like this on ExIsle for Drom. I've always had an urge to dabble (drabble? *groan*) with Beka and Harper and Rommie and the gang...
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