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[May. 2nd, 2009|07:43 pm] |
Crossposting to Inksome, LiveJournal and JournalFen.
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| SGABigBang2008 |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|08:42 pm] |
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So I'm slowly working my way through the Big Bang stories (OT4, Gen and Mc/Shep (and maybe other slash and het, but not the Weir/Shep)) and I haven't read even a quarter of them yet, but so far my biggest finding is this: the Mc/Shep people are actually writing gen during which McKay and Sheppard happen to be/get together. This isn't to say that these stories aren't good or that I don't have squee for them, just that I don't think they're good McShep as they don't focus very much (if at all) on their relationship. And that's been kind of disappointing. That said, I am not hating these stories. |
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| Fans Made Them Do It |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|02:43 pm] |
I have just one (fandom) squick, but it comes in various subtly different guises. That squick is embarrassment and one of it's many guises is Fans Made Them Do It.
Oddly I came to SGA through said squick. I become peripherally interest in the fandom when David Hewlett first set up his web site and fans started squeeing about his awesome fan friendliness and, well, his awesomeness in general. This squeeing about his awesomeness was largely centered around the way he dealt with fans who thought that it was fun and appropriate to share sexually explicit manips of him in his forum. I'd never before heard of Stargate Atlantis or David Hewlett but my embarrassment squick kicked in hard and I distracted myself by being impressed with David Hewlett.
I suppose without that Fans Made Them Do It incident I might never have discovered and developed a love for SGA and its fandom and would thus have been living without this hugely fun diversion, but I still wish fans wouldn't commit those kinds of faux pas. I wish they wouldn't do it even though without fans sometimes getting carried away and committing such horrifying faux pas we wouldn't have Michael Shanks's hilarious take on it. I wish I had time to track down a YouTube vid of him talking about it.
Speaking of YouTube vids and fan faux pas and getting to the thing which prompted this post and my remembrance of things past, there was a vid linked on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) mckay_sheppard this week which featured fans at Shore Leave putting DH on the spot and getting him to say "I love you John Sheppard". This was all meant in fun, of course, and I think the fans who put him on the spot probably wouldn't have done the same thing with a less fan-friendly and less accommodating actor, but, still, I found it extremely squicky. Eww. |
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| The Colour Purple |
[Feb. 26th, 2008|03:06 pm] |
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I am amused by how much the SGA fandom is OBSESSED with purple food. As in the thing that looked like a [name of vegetable] only purple and the purple not-[name of vegetable]. Potato-like vegetables (or not-potatoes, as they are frequently termed) are particularly prone to being purple in the Pegasus galaxy, but it's by no means limited to them. Turnips and parsnips, for example, have had their turn, too. |
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| Why Fanfic |
[Aug. 17th, 2007|05:32 pm] |
I enjoyed reading this article earlier this week. Cory Doctorow says a lot that I've said and thought about fan fiction over the years. Writers emulate and copy 'the greats' much the way painters and sculptors did (and do), though that doesn't mean that moving into greater originality or professional writing is for everyone. And that it's 'active reading'? ... So true!
Some of the comments are as annoying as annoying things, though. |
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| Egg Baskets |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|04:08 pm] |
Lurking around fandom has suddenly become that bit more complicated, what with all the locking down and the putting of eggs into multiple baskets. Or the splitting of fandom's soul into Horcruxes, as some more amusingly have it.
In a bid to keep up I've created this here journal (and set up a couple of clones in two of the more easily accessible baskets) rather than continue to lurk from my personal journal, which I intend to keep completely separate from fandom from now on. This has never seemed more sensible.
I've tried doing that and having a 'fandom' journal in the past, but being such a consummate lurker it's never really worked terribly well. Few people like empty journals and I find the logging in and out tedious -- at least there's a Firefox widget to that for me these days. |
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| Consummate Lurker |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|04:41 pm] |
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I discovered online fandom in 1999 and after a brief, heady period of gluttony in which I attempted to read every ST ff ever written and posted online (difficult because much of it had been purged from Tripod), I settled into Yahoo Groups with HP and few other fandoms. At first I was quite active, reviewing, recing, discussing, beta reading and even, just occasionally, writing ff, but then came greater off-line responsibilities and I made a few adjustments, adopted a new on-line identity --one less obviously associated with my off-line one-- put my virtual feet up and retired into a quiet life of lurking. |
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