I wasn't pushing you away, I was pulling me toward myself.
So I'm still kind of doing the Stephen Colbert RPF thing (and by "kind of" I mean "half my waking moments", obvs - like, I made myself wallpaper, you guys. I am not even kidding. Send help), which has somehow led me down the merry path of shipping Stephen Colbert/Paul Dinello/Amy Sedaris, which I guess would be Strangers with Candy RPF (yeah, yeah, I judge you too, go back to watching SGA). And I'm reminded of all the things I find vaguely hilarious and awesome about RPF fandoms, which are that your canon comes not in entertaining half hour segments every Thursday night during sweeps, but instead through random LJ posts such as this, and you inevitably find yourself reading a lot of posts describing book signings/panel discussions/conventions/what have you, that all seem to begin with an extremely detailed description of how the person writing the post arrived at the location ("and THEN I took the red line to the green line" - dude, I am bored when I TAKE public transportation, how would I not be bored READING about YOU taking public transportation?), and then disproportionately seem to end with, "And then I called my mom to come pick us up."
Speaking of which, it's really interesting to me that RPF fandoms skew so young compared to other fandoms - I mean, it kind of makes sense with something like popslash, but when you're talking SWC, which was on the air when *I* was a teenager, I'm not sure why it would. Except that older fans appear to have questions like, Is writing RPF morally wrong? Whereas the kids seem to have questions like, How many times do you think Stephen and Paul banged last night? Which, fair enough. But I've been reading a lot of fic that's fine, but you can tell that in about five years when the writer, you know, graduates college it'll be AMAZING, and I start to fantasize about living in the future not for the flying cars, but because the Colbert/Dinello fic will be FANTASTIC. This is honestly what I thought about all last night while attempting to read a 90 page article on Old Babylonian economics, true story.
Anyway, on the subject, I actually did end up going to see Amy Sedaris give a book reading last week, which was pretty awesome. Except that I had already read fan reports of other readings on this same book tour, which meant that I knew pretty much everything she was going to say and do. That's right, basically what I'm saying is that the internet spoiled me FOR MY OWN LIFE. Which is pretty amazing when you think about it. BUT, she took questions, and so I asked her what her favorite thing was that she'd done with Paul and Stephen. And she told one story, that I'd heard before (thanks, Internet!) about how one time at Second City she was backstage while they were onstage, and she saw a black book marked "Diary" and she picked it up and it was Colbert's diary. And she opened it up and it said, "Last night I dreamed I was a dragonfly." And basically she has made fun of him for that ever since. And then she said that another time the three of them went hiking in the Mojave desert, and Stephen left a glass of ice in the car. And they hadn't brought any water or anything, so by the time they got back they were all really thirsty, and the ice had all melted, so there was, like, half a glass of ice cold water. And Stephen, "being the gentleman that he is" was like, Amy, go ahead, and gave her the water. And instead of drinking it, she poured it out on the ground. And then he rubbed her face in the dirt as revenge. Jerri Blank voice: "Good times." Hahahahaha. Basically, she's incredibly adorable, and her book looked awesome, though I'm broke so I am going to have to wait for the paperback.
Wow. You know what is sad about ending this entry? I'm going to have to go do work now. THERE IS A MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS POST.
Speaking of which, it's really interesting to me that RPF fandoms skew so young compared to other fandoms - I mean, it kind of makes sense with something like popslash, but when you're talking SWC, which was on the air when *I* was a teenager, I'm not sure why it would. Except that older fans appear to have questions like, Is writing RPF morally wrong? Whereas the kids seem to have questions like, How many times do you think Stephen and Paul banged last night? Which, fair enough. But I've been reading a lot of fic that's fine, but you can tell that in about five years when the writer, you know, graduates college it'll be AMAZING, and I start to fantasize about living in the future not for the flying cars, but because the Colbert/Dinello fic will be FANTASTIC. This is honestly what I thought about all last night while attempting to read a 90 page article on Old Babylonian economics, true story.
Anyway, on the subject, I actually did end up going to see Amy Sedaris give a book reading last week, which was pretty awesome. Except that I had already read fan reports of other readings on this same book tour, which meant that I knew pretty much everything she was going to say and do. That's right, basically what I'm saying is that the internet spoiled me FOR MY OWN LIFE. Which is pretty amazing when you think about it. BUT, she took questions, and so I asked her what her favorite thing was that she'd done with Paul and Stephen. And she told one story, that I'd heard before (thanks, Internet!) about how one time at Second City she was backstage while they were onstage, and she saw a black book marked "Diary" and she picked it up and it was Colbert's diary. And she opened it up and it said, "Last night I dreamed I was a dragonfly." And basically she has made fun of him for that ever since. And then she said that another time the three of them went hiking in the Mojave desert, and Stephen left a glass of ice in the car. And they hadn't brought any water or anything, so by the time they got back they were all really thirsty, and the ice had all melted, so there was, like, half a glass of ice cold water. And Stephen, "being the gentleman that he is" was like, Amy, go ahead, and gave her the water. And instead of drinking it, she poured it out on the ground. And then he rubbed her face in the dirt as revenge. Jerri Blank voice: "Good times." Hahahahaha. Basically, she's incredibly adorable, and her book looked awesome, though I'm broke so I am going to have to wait for the paperback.
Wow. You know what is sad about ending this entry? I'm going to have to go do work now. THERE IS A MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS POST.