I'm So Tired Of Being Tired

[redbrunja]

I swear, right now, I want to quit fandom.

No, there is nothing hugely dramatic prompting this. I am just so, so weary of the ingrained sexism and the fandom drama and the female character hate and the shipping wars.

I feel like declaring that after July, I'm going to go back to western tv and liveaction fandoms, because when two very different mangakas annoy me in exactly the same way in one fucking evening, and my own over-investment in a pairing + spoilers + the damn fandom itself is threatening to ruin the show that ruined me for anime....

Something is very wrong here.

(And then I remember that my previous happy skippy live action comedy show is killing my love, as is my current sci-fi drama, my last sci-fi drama betrayed me horribly, and my last girl-centric show was torturous near the end, and I realize I'm going to need to go back to reading books and give myself time to let the wounds heal.)

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Random rec: Badass Sakura fanart (http://doxnbox.deviantart.com/art/You-Took-Away-A-Part-of-Me-11708094), because the fans will rise up even when the mangaka is a sexist hack. (2004, if that matters)


I am going into books lately, and I'm nearing the run of Discworld. Only 5 books left! I don't know what I'll do when that series is over. It's like there will be no more literary happiness. It's like how I felt after I watched The Return of the King, and I walked out the theater doors, and I knew that this was it. After the DVD was released there would be no more. Next Christmas I wouldn't have any more hobbits and wizards and swordfights and warrior princesses and magic rings to give me that fan joy as a year-end present. It was over.



I'm kind of hunting for a new live action fandom to get into, since I've been putting off watching the new season of Doctor Who out of fear, and BSG is at this point mostly a soda-drinking game for me (I haven't seen its fourth season either), and I have no other tv shows I religiously love.

I need another Farscape, or X Files, or West Wing, or something. I can't wait until Dollhouse next year... I have hopes.

[fani.livejournal.com]

Don't you still have The Truth, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Thud!, Making Money, Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith to read? Nation is also coming out in the Fall (you lucky Americans, you'll get it first!)

I find Discworld has a high re-read quality and you'll find stuff that you miss first time reading so you can always re-read.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The Truth is done. . Only 5 books left!

[fani.livejournal.com]

What did you think of the Truth ?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I liked it. It's about middle on my personal scale-- all around entertaining, with some good bits and weak bits. I don't think the central conspiracy conflict was as strong as some of the other conspiracy plotlines, and the villains were weaker when compared to more memorable villains, but it was a joy to watch the development of DeWorde and the other reporters as the paper got bigger. Also, lots and lots of in-jokes that I got in that one. TP went crazy with the media references, which were fun to read.

My favorite was the entire discussion referencing to the Seattle Underground, which I'm pretty 98% of the people who read the book won't get. I would never have gotten it if it weren't for a confluence of specific life circumstances and tourism.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's an awesome fanart. You were the one who gave me the link to that other awesome one, with Sakura and the huge, complex ax, right?

*nods*

Same here. And I'm so excited for Dollhouse - I really can't wait.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ax? no, but I'd love to see it.

books

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

re: book fandoms in a later paragraph

Except for Harry Potter (and some minor Discworld fanart), I don't do fandoms for books. Even if I could, the fandoms are never there for the books I want. So it just almost never happens for me.

Books are like a safe zone. The most is that I maybe read a couple of internet or professional reviews of the novels. I often write my own review of books, but that just as often goes completely uncommented on.

Re: books

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes. That is why I'm talking about going back to them, because at most, book reviews will get, like, two people commenting.

And then I'll whine (well, I do now) about not having a fandom for something that should have a fandom, but it will be a different aggravation.

(And it's a doomed choice anyway, as you'll see if you read my soon to be most recent post.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Here it is:

http://rozefire.deviantart.com/art/Shannaro-35092028

I adore her posture, and the expression on her face.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

BADASS!

Her expression (and overall facial design) really stand out as original but at the same time fitting to the series...but it's the little heart next to her name on the Giant Ax that makes it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes.