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Why Is It Always So Quiet When I Have Insomnia?
Okay, fannish5 time:
Name five fannish opinions of yours that have changed since you entered fandom.
1.) Super-fanon pairings (as in, characters never interact in canon) are becoming less and less interesting to me. The pairings that I'm really invested in/write a lot of fic for (regardless of whether I think they'll get together in the text or even want them to) are all ones that have a textual relationship, even if it's not explicitly romantic or totally reciprocated (e.g. Zuko/Katara, Jeff/Annie, Damon/Elena). Back when I was a wee, innocent newbie, I was reading a ton of Hermione/Draco and Draco/Ginny as well as Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, and I've read just about every Buffy pairing possible at least once (including Tara/Spike, Spike/Xander, and Willow/Giles).
2.) I no longer feel that if I find a fic for a show and character(s) that I like, I have to read it. I just don't have the time! Now I basically only read fic for the fandons I'm obsessed with right this very moment or if I know the writer is awesome. And I can't even remember the last time I read a long fanfic.
3.) I used to be really nervous about writing sex scenes. And now I host kink memes. Wow. Just thinking about it kind of boggles my mind.
4.) Well-crafted, beautiful icons of characters I'm not in love with > less awesomely done icons of characters I like more.
5.) I upload less icons of secondary characters than I used to.
So, flist, what has changed for you since you discovered fandom?
Five questions you would like to ask authors or creators of source material in your fandom(s).
Assuming that they would answer honestly...
1.) TVD shooting has been plagued by injury, illness, and foul weather this season. I'd love to talk with the writers about how that changed when they had hiatuses and if/how it shaped storylines.
2.) The TVD writers and I also need to talk about Matt because how they think they're writing him ≠ how I see the character at all.
3.) I'd ask Suzanne Brockmann, writer of the Troubleshooters series (which has a reoccurring cast of characters and several romances that play out over multiple books), if she originally planned to write a Sophia/Decker romance and switched it to Sophia/Dave because even knowing the endgame, early books point in a direction that later books do not bear out. Which is not to say I don't love Sophia/Dave, because I totally do.
4.) I'd talk to TSCC writers about how they intended to resolve Cameron's... corporeal issues.
5.) Dear Carrie Vaughn (author of the Kitty & The Midnight Hour series), ARE YOU DELIBERATELY SETTING UP A RELATIONSHIP EVERYONE WITH TASTE IS GOING TO SHIP JUST TO REFUSE TO WRITE IT? No love, me.
Name five fannish opinions of yours that have changed since you entered fandom.
1.) Super-fanon pairings (as in, characters never interact in canon) are becoming less and less interesting to me. The pairings that I'm really invested in/write a lot of fic for (regardless of whether I think they'll get together in the text or even want them to) are all ones that have a textual relationship, even if it's not explicitly romantic or totally reciprocated (e.g. Zuko/Katara, Jeff/Annie, Damon/Elena). Back when I was a wee, innocent newbie, I was reading a ton of Hermione/Draco and Draco/Ginny as well as Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, and I've read just about every Buffy pairing possible at least once (including Tara/Spike, Spike/Xander, and Willow/Giles).
2.) I no longer feel that if I find a fic for a show and character(s) that I like, I have to read it. I just don't have the time! Now I basically only read fic for the fandons I'm obsessed with right this very moment or if I know the writer is awesome. And I can't even remember the last time I read a long fanfic.
3.) I used to be really nervous about writing sex scenes. And now I host kink memes. Wow. Just thinking about it kind of boggles my mind.
4.) Well-crafted, beautiful icons of characters I'm not in love with > less awesomely done icons of characters I like more.
5.) I upload less icons of secondary characters than I used to.
So, flist, what has changed for you since you discovered fandom?
Five questions you would like to ask authors or creators of source material in your fandom(s).
Assuming that they would answer honestly...
1.) TVD shooting has been plagued by injury, illness, and foul weather this season. I'd love to talk with the writers about how that changed when they had hiatuses and if/how it shaped storylines.
2.) The TVD writers and I also need to talk about Matt because how they think they're writing him ≠ how I see the character at all.
3.) I'd ask Suzanne Brockmann, writer of the Troubleshooters series (which has a reoccurring cast of characters and several romances that play out over multiple books), if she originally planned to write a Sophia/Decker romance and switched it to Sophia/Dave because even knowing the endgame, early books point in a direction that later books do not bear out. Which is not to say I don't love Sophia/Dave, because I totally do.
4.) I'd talk to TSCC writers about how they intended to resolve Cameron's... corporeal issues.
5.) Dear Carrie Vaughn (author of the Kitty & The Midnight Hour series), ARE YOU DELIBERATELY SETTING UP A RELATIONSHIP EVERYONE WITH TASTE IS GOING TO SHIP JUST TO REFUSE TO WRITE IT? No love, me.
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As for Matt... I know some people really love him and Matt/Caroline but he's said variants of 'you're neurotic and insecure but I love you' so many times I hear 'I love you because you're neurotic and insecure' and frankly, I found his behavior while Caroline was helping Tyler both dickish and immature.
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what hasn't changed...I still have one major fandom and many many minor (obsessive) flings with other fandoms, which to me feels like the totality of my fannish experience - but then little things have changed, like I now "get" vids and enjoy watching them, and have let femslash and het into my reading, and it took me a couple years to discover meta, but when I did I was all over that. Actually, getting an lj was a big change - huh. I guess more has changed than I thought.
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Yeah, I know that's not the relationship the writers are writing, but it's the one I can't help but see...
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1) Really wonderful writing catches my attention when I do find it, especially when the story is damn convincing. ^^; I mean the emotional authenticity, unusual syntax, and so forth. It doesn't matter if the fic is long or short for me. Which is odd, because I used to only read long fics.
2) Pairings that work are not necessarily seen as cool by the majority of the fandom, mostly because the fans are not exactly, er, sensible in that ways. While popular pairings are not necessarily always good ones. ^^; This I learned when I was forced to think about character development and how relationships work, in fiction and in real life.
3) Action/adventure fanfics are damn difficult, mostly because action needs a lot of research and fighting requires knowledge of how combat works. Damn the people who made this task look easy, because I got caught into the trend and now can't get out. ^^;
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Agreed. I think I pay more attention and am more excited when I find really good writing than I used to be.
2) Pairings that work are not necessarily seen as cool by the majority of the fandom, mostly because the fans are not exactly, er, sensible in that ways. While popular pairings are not necessarily always good ones. ^^;
Very true.
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And you always have the best/sexiest/prettiest icons, too! ^_^
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I also have such less time for reading fic it's embarassing. I try, I honestly do, but between watching tv + writing fic + reading posts + real life, it becomes a bit insane.
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As I understand it, Kate/Swayer was canon and then they broke up, right? And there was much explosion in fandom?
I also have such less time for reading fic it's embarassing. I try, I honestly do, but between watching tv + writing fic + reading posts + real life, it becomes a bit insane.
*nods* And for me, when I have like, three tabs open with fic, it's hard to justify starting anything longer than a one-shot. I'm only just now finishing reading the Yuletide fics I wanted to read.
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