You know, I still occasionally get chiding comments on posts that are more than six years old telling me all about how much I must hate Ray Vecchio* because I said something (six/seven years ago!) about how a) I don't find Ray V. personally attractive, b) I don't ship Ray V. and Fraser, or c) I like Ray K. more ( Read more... )

Ah, fandom. I've only been lightly involved in the '2009 Steel Cage' whatever, but it does seem rather expressive of fandom that only one woman was in the final eight and that the final four (all white) consist of two womanizers, an asshole, and Spike (*insert appropriate description, as I don't have the energy to find something that fully ( Read more... )

So, I actually have different kinds of OTPness.

1. Ultimate and complete One True Pairing, cannot picture either one of the characters with anyone else as long as the option to be with their OTP exists. Doctor/Rose falls into this category, as well as Zoe/Wash (from Firefly) and Fraser/Kowalski (due South). With the Doctor and Rose, their OTP nature ( Read more... )

1) Comment with one of my fandoms or a character or two from that fandom.
2) I'll answer with one or two of my unpopular opinions about that fandom or character.

OR! You can also comment with fandoms I'm not into, and I'll tell you why I'm not a fan.

I've seen this meme all over the place and I'm still really buzzing about new Who (plus, TW's ( Read more... )

One of my favorite television quotes is from "Burning Down the House", the first episode of the third season of due South.

"People are not interchangeable like snow mobile parts," says our hero, when his father tells him that one 'Yank' is as good as another.

But, so often in television and movies, women have been interchangeable -- the Bond movies ( Read more... )

LJ isn't sending out most of my comments.

*sigh*

So, I'm currently at a place where most of fandom is... confusing me. In the sense that I very much disagree with some of the conclusions that are drawn by the most vocal parts of the fandoms I'm in and can't even see where they're pulling their feelings from. I'm not sure if that's to do more with ( Read more... )

I'm tired of the cyclic fandom discussions. Feminism, racism, sexism, real person fic, slash. It all goes round and round and never stops. Part of the problem is that the observer affects the observed. We tend to collect evidence that favors the way that we already think and throw out the things that disagree ( Read more... )

I'm big on adoring canon. Which I've talked about. So, why aren't any of my preferred 'ships canon? Even the really popular ones (Clark/Lex, Fraser/RayK), they aren't canon. What, am I allergic to canon relationships?

Or is it that I like seeing something new in the fics I read? I mean, I want Buffy/Angel, I can watch the early season of Buffy. If ( Read more... )

Each fandom has its own little rules and traditions. Some are more passive, some more outgoing, some tend more toward the obvious and others toward things that are hidden ( Read more... )

I've been watching the episodes (well, the Kowalski episodes) in order. Well, in the order that the due South official site tells me that they should be in. Apparently, this may or may not be the order they were aired in. If not, then that is a true shame, as it clears up some of what people thought were character continuity problems. (Or so it ( Read more... )