(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

kumquat_of_doom
2013-02-23 12:42 am UTC (link)

To be fair, I'm also in the fandom, and the more I see of the fans (including Moffat, frankly) the more I dislike them. They keep disrupting my happyfuntiems with sexism and dick-measuring contests with Elementary, and I just want to perve on Bendydick (who is charming and a sweetheart) and write crossovers!

...I am okay with an appreciation thread for all the good stuff, though.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2013-02-23 01:22 am UTC (link)
	I just want to perv on Rupert Graves. I love that man. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2013-02-23 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Unf, Rupert Graves. fans self gently Foxiest silver fox there is. Have you seen Different For Girls? He spends nearly the entire thing in biker leathers, and also it is the most adorable Nineties romcom about a guy and a translady who was his best friend at school. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2013-02-23 01:26 am UTC (link)
	I haven't! It's living on my Netflix queue. I did watch Maurice, though, and there's a lot of young naked Rupert Graves in Maurice. Delightful. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2013-02-23 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Oh, Maurice. I love it and it makes me sad in equal amounts. Like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Both the book and the movie make me the saddest Kumquat in the world. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lindentreeisle 2013-02-23 01:32 am UTC (link)
	I must admit I'm just a tourist; I didn't read the book and I only went to the movie because of Cumberbatch. I am not sure if the reason I got so confused by the plot is because I fail at intrigue, or because I was just too distracted by his magnificent ginger sideburns. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2013-02-23 02:50 am UTC (link)
	It may be a little of A and a little of B! I had no trouble with the movie, but I've read most of the George Smiley books. OTOH, my BFF said she had no problem following along and she hadn't read any of the books; on the third hand, another of my friends who hadn't read the books couldn't follow at all. So, IDK. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lindentreeisle 2013-02-24 03:09 am UTC (link)
	I watched the last third of it on HBO at my parents' a few weeks ago, and it made much more sense the second time around. I think I just fail at intrigue; I prefer the kind of spy movie where shit blows up. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) -

kumquat_of_doom, 2013-02-26 01:41 am UTC

	lady_ganesh 2013-02-23 03:46 am UTC (link)
	It is definitely on the bittersweet side of things at times. I read Tinker, Tailor right after I read The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. In that light it was actually less sad. Which says something about Le Carre, and probably explains why I haven't read more of him, even though he's brilliant. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ellensmithee 2013-02-24 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	I found Le Carre (or Robert Ludlum, Ken Follett, etc.) more gripping to read back when the Cold War was actually a thing. Nowadays I find him pretty dated. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) -

lady_ganesh, 2013-02-24 02:29 pm UTC

(no subject) -

ellensmithee, 2013-02-24 02:34 pm UTC

	sorchar 2013-02-23 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	Unf. First saw him in Maurice, instant squee. And he has aged very well. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2013-02-23 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	For real. (Reply to this)(Parent)

lindentreeisle
2013-02-23 01:30 am UTC (link)

You can come be on my dash! None of my friends are insane, so I miss out on most of this batshittery too. Over on my dash it's mostly pictures of hot guys.

Really, I blame most of this on tumblr. I mean, when the fandom was just on LJ, there were a few crazy people but tumblr is RIFE with them. I think they breed under the leaves of the #sherlock tag. It reminds me of that Penny Arcade comic where they're talking about some awful comment section of a website and they say "it's as if the sewer had ANOTHER sewer beneath it" and something about rats and slime dripping. I guess this isn't a very good anecdote.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	luthe 2013-02-23 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Lin, I think I'm already on your dash. Persian waves (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lindentreeisle 2013-02-24 03:10 am UTC (link)
	LULZ. I was like luthe, luthe, why does that sound familiar... NOW I KNOW. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kumquat_of_doom 2013-02-23 02:48 am UTC (link)
	nests continues to write Molly Hooper crossover femmeslash (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2013-02-23 03:47 am UTC (link)
	Oooh, crossover with who? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kumquat_of_doom
2013-02-26 02:07 am UTC (link)

St Trinian's!

A while back, I wrote what I call the crossoverama, which is twenty fandoms crossed over with Sherlock as Mrs Hudson leads a band of badass old ladies in a campaign to bring down the remains of Moriarty's empire, kill Sebastian Moran and keep Sherlock and John alive.

The linking conceit of the fic is that they all went to St Trinian's together - because where else? - and Annabelle Fritton, who is the headmistress's niece in the new movies, is mentioned as being Molly's bodyguard. There was a deleted Molly/Annabelle scene in the labs which I had an idea for but couldn't fit in because it screwed up the format of the fic (which alternates between Mrs H's flat in Baker Street and Victoria from RED jetting round the world hunting Moran), and so I tried to write it separately as like a bonus scene.

Which, after about SIX FRIGGIN' MONTHS of writer's block, has become a fic approximately as long as its originator, and which I FINALLY finished last night! I just need to type up (I handwrite all my fics) and post and omgomgomg it is DONE and now I can start writing about Professor McGonagall and Neville Longbottom arresting Umbridge.

...Er. That came out kind of longer than it was supposed to. Sorry 'bout that.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2013-02-26 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	Hee, no problem! Congratulations. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

ellensmithee
2013-02-24 02:01 pm UTC (link)

I blame most of this on tumblr. I mean, when the fandom was just on LJ, there were a few crazy people but tumblr is RIFE with them.

I said this exact same thing to someone the other day. My theory is that LJ fandom had sort of a social-policing effect on fans so if people said stupid stuff, it would follow them around forever. People who were basically nice and normal who just said something stupid would maybe learn from the situation so that you ended up with a few notorious people who were just plain nuts (and their minions). But on tumblr, the posts appear and then disappear within a day or two so it's almost impossible to keep a record of someone's asshattery and there are no real social consequences like you had on LJ to some extent because no one remembers. So it doesn't really have the learning curve that LJ did.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	herdivineshadow 2013-02-25 03:34 am UTC (link)
	EVEN BETTER, on tumblr changing your URL/username every five minutes seems to be an accepted convention. It bugs me most because I...don't use the tumblr dashboard - I follow tumblrs through Google Reader instead and people just keep disappearing due to URL-change, but to keep track of accountablity etc etc Well. It makes it impossible. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ellensmithee
2013-02-25 08:43 am UTC (link)

Yes! Not only that, but tumblr releases the URL immediately so someone else can just come along, grab the URL, and post under that name. That all leads to a lack of a cohesive fan identity. No one seems to have a user name that they use across fandoms anymore. I think the only people I know who keep a reference to their cross-platform identity are old skool fans.

I can't figure out how tumblr managed to take over fandom so completely with its and lack of permanence and mutual communication possibilities. The feeling that fandom is a community has lessened considerably.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

herdivineshadow
2013-02-26 02:28 am UTC (link)

God. I wish I was doing a degree that writing a paper on the development of cohesive fan identity would be relevant. I'd get so much mileage out of it. Augh.

...and you've reminded me of the URL hoarders. It's like the hoarders on LJ, but like a million times worse. Why would you want to keep over a hundred URLs? It's not like one person could use that many all at the same time.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ellensmithee 2013-02-26 09:51 am UTC (link)
	Well, it's hard to hoard URLs on tumblr because you need a unique e-mail addy for each account. I rp over there and have a handful of accounts, in contrast with IJ where I had dozens (active) ones at one point (which I feel less guilty now that IJ has deleted most of them ;-)). And I was thinking the same thing about a paper/blog post, but I'm too lazy, LOL. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ellensmithee 2013-02-26 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	By weird coincidence: http://www.dailydot.com/society/confessions-tumblr-url-hoarder/ I'd forgotten you can make child blogs on tumblr without a new addy. They're sort of a pain for rping and a lot of games don't permit them, that's why I don't usually use them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) -

herdivineshadow, 2013-02-26 09:39 pm UTC

(Read comments) -