Disclaimer: I have absolutely no trouble recognizing the difference between Grant Ward and Brett Dalton. The latter - who seems sweet and funny - is not the subject of this post.

Why am I writing about Grant Ward?

Very few folks who have even a peripheral involvement in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fandom are neutral where Ward's concerned - me ( Read more... )

So, yes...this is just me tracking the way I've been falling down the Avengers characters rabbit hole,

Prelude to Avengers yammering: on my user info page is a link to a continuously-updated entry from 2006 titled Shameless Hinting: a Meme". It was based on a suggestion from resonant that we could all make the fic-giving impulses of our friends ( Read more... )

So...because of The Avengers, I've been thinking a lot lately about the process of going back to text-based source works when it was a t.v./film adaptation that first got you interested in a given world.

I've had two brief flurries of interest in comics throughout my lifetime (a small flirtation in childhood with Superman and Batman, and then ( Read more... )

I'm sure we're all familiar with Fannish Backlash, i.e., when you hear/see so much about a particular t.v. series or actor or group or book and so many people are trying to drag you, kicking and screaming, into an appreciation of their favorite Thing Of The Moment, that you can't help but dig your heels in and decide (consciously or not) that you ( Read more... )

Before I begin, I need to make a couple of comments:

1. I'm mostly not going to be talking about Fests. When I think of Fests, what comes to my mind (rightly or wrongly) is a prompt-driven Fic and/or Art festival that focuses on a single theme or pairing or fandom. While Fests and Exchanges have many things in common, my main interest (in part ( Read more... )

aubrem had a very interesting discussion in her LJ the other day, dealing with the extent to which people feel compelled to talk about their fannish interests. Within this discussion, she brought up the issue of reccing, especially once you've been involved with fandom (or with *a* fandom) for a long time. She wrote:

Similarly, I didn't think twice ( Read more... )

Okay, first of all, there's an interesting discussion going on in fabularasa's LJ about whether you find that, in a given fandom, a specific pairing is the draw or a specific character is the draw.

However, within that discussion (where some of us had been talking about our OTC - i.e., One True Character - whom we can see paired with just about anybody), elfwreck ( Read more... )

I‛ve been seeing a lot of rants recently about "those stories ( Read more... )

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- ( Read more... )

Skimming through LJ this morning, I went back skip=100 on my f'list to see what people were talking about (apart from my main fandom of HP), and came up with fourteen separate fandoms, and...wow...I had such an anti-squee reaction, I was worried I was going to be drummed out of Fandom ( Read more... )