But is it my fandom?
So there I was on Superbowl Sunday, whinging about not having any t.v. shows to squee over. (I watch House and Stargate: Atlantis every week and read the fic and all, but despite liking the casts and the concepts, I have slightly ambivalent feelings about both shows), and then quite by accident I watched Grey's Anatomy at its 'special post-Superbowl time' (the only thing odd about that is that I wasn't actually watching the Superbowl).
I liked it! I mean, I actually liked it, although in that "bought the DVD set and spent yesterday watching all of season one with yahtzee63 and gaeta" kind of way and not in that "looking for fic or thinking about writing any" kind of way. So, yes...I really like it, and yet I don't know that I'll ever be entirely fannish about it because these days, feeling really part of a fandom requires that...hmm...not that I write in the fandom, but that I at least have thoughts about writing in the fandom. This, in fact, is why I'm not entirely comfortable thinking of myself as being part of House or Stargate: Atlantis - particularly the latter, since I have written an odd little House story and have fallen into the habit of writing up "closed caption" summaries for House each week, but have, as yet, done zip with SGA except the odd bit of beta'ing for luthien, and I don't think I ever will.
Which leads to the question that just came to mind: Writers and artists and essayists: once you decide you like a movie or a t.v. series or a book, do you generally start producing (fic, art, essays) right away, or do you wait for the new source material to settle? And...do you ever feel that there's a sort of fannish statute of limitations, which sets the limits for when you're "allowed" to start writing fic or creating art or whatever, after which you may as well admit you're not really in the fandom, or do you have experience with being peripherally in a fandom, but not actually producing anything for months or years?
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In other news, this weeks challenge for snape100 is "Defence Against the Dark Arts."
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ETA: Neil Gaiman certainly includes a lot of pictures of himself in his blog. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
I liked it! I mean, I actually liked it, although in that "bought the DVD set and spent yesterday watching all of season one with yahtzee63 and gaeta" kind of way and not in that "looking for fic or thinking about writing any" kind of way. So, yes...I really like it, and yet I don't know that I'll ever be entirely fannish about it because these days, feeling really part of a fandom requires that...hmm...not that I write in the fandom, but that I at least have thoughts about writing in the fandom. This, in fact, is why I'm not entirely comfortable thinking of myself as being part of House or Stargate: Atlantis - particularly the latter, since I have written an odd little House story and have fallen into the habit of writing up "closed caption" summaries for House each week, but have, as yet, done zip with SGA except the odd bit of beta'ing for luthien, and I don't think I ever will.
Which leads to the question that just came to mind: Writers and artists and essayists: once you decide you like a movie or a t.v. series or a book, do you generally start producing (fic, art, essays) right away, or do you wait for the new source material to settle? And...do you ever feel that there's a sort of fannish statute of limitations, which sets the limits for when you're "allowed" to start writing fic or creating art or whatever, after which you may as well admit you're not really in the fandom, or do you have experience with being peripherally in a fandom, but not actually producing anything for months or years?
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In other news, this weeks challenge for snape100 is "Defence Against the Dark Arts."
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ETA: Neil Gaiman certainly includes a lot of pictures of himself in his blog. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.