Quiz shows, and a fandom meme
I just put Match Game, I've Got a Secret, and What's My Line on the TiVo and they are the awesome sauce. It's like the British panel quiz shows have led me full circle back to Charles Nelson Reilly, and just in time, as Saturday Night Live did an awesome Match Game parody just this weekend! Though I have to wonder if anyone under the age of 30 even understood what the hell was going on.
Fandom meme! Totally stolen from dreamerren. Later I'll post some ask me questions meme because it is the end of term and OMG the grading.
The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Harry Potter, if I'm honest, especially canon and Harry/Hermione. I'm still PTSD over that shit. The drama, the ship wars, the way the canon went down (not in terms of shipping-I never thought H/hr would be canon-but in terms of the plot itself). And yet, I still have stories to tell there; at this point they're like, my own personal AU, but they're probably still worth writing even if I'm not "really" in the fandom anymore at this point.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Harry Potter Seamus/Dean, but I wouldn't say it's entirely nostalgic, even if it isn't top of mind these days. I mean, there are chapters written and an outline to be reworked for the project that I'd started, and I'm a finisher type of gal. Never mind that writing that will probably help me to work through all the issues referenced above.
The mysterious dark gothy one with whom you used to sit up talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy: CSI, where I read and reviewed for a summer. Lotta BDSM in CSI slash fandom, it's weird. The other day I was going to do a Gil/Nick rec list to sort of put that all to bed, but looking at those fics and remembering the hopes for Nick in the wake of "Grave Danger" just made me sad.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town: Starsky & Hutch, where I lurked for a summer. Great fic, especially the old stuff from the zines, and I read a lot of it in sort of a fever one summer. Closed canon ftw, but the schmoopy gen sort of freaks me out a heck of a lot more than any of the slash.
The steady: American Idol: the show and Rymon. It's why I never say, "I'll never write this again" etc, because that's what I said when I posted my first Rymon fic and look where I am now. Rymon is a renewable resource, there every year, which allows me for the most part to skim along the top of the ongoing singer-based drama. We're small but awesome! And it's probably one of the very few shows I enjoy really discussing the ins and outs of.
The ex: American Idol: Cake. It was a good time, and I've made great friends, but while I'll probably be OTP about them in any other Idol AU's I write, I don't think I'd write something centering around them again. The fandom itself wasn't a great fit for my priorities and sensibilities, which has led to other problems, so it's best that I just leave that one lie.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Avatar: the Last Airbender, though that hasn't been for all that long. I'm pondering fic, and ali_wildgoose thinks I should write it before canon closes, but there's so much other stuff in my head at present I'm not sure I'll be able to get it out before July, not to mention that since the novelization came out I'm not sure canon hasn't already closed.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: How I Met Your Mother. Love the show, love talking about it with friends, recommend it to everyone I know. But the yuletide fic might have been it, my Statement on Matters HIMYM, and I have no desire to get into that fandom proper.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: Battlestar Gallactica. I mean, we'll see; it may well be a show I like watching as it ends, but other than reading a few things here or there, I don't want to get fandomy about.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Stargate Atlantis. And it isn't just the babes, it's the meta, not just on the show, but on the fics. Every time someone on my flist posts about being destroyed by a fic, it's an SGA fic, and I have to admit, I feel totally jealous. Don't get me wrong; I really like what I write. But my stories aren't going to destroy anyone, or prompt discussion. So I look upon SGA somewhat wistfully.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Supernatural. It's just, IMO, not a good show, and it will go the way of Smallville and all those other not-good shows with enough action or monsters to be sort of genre, lots of cute boys, weird gender issues, a small cast-in other words, random militant slasher catnip.
Fandom meme! Totally stolen from dreamerren. Later I'll post some ask me questions meme because it is the end of term and OMG the grading.
The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Harry Potter, if I'm honest, especially canon and Harry/Hermione. I'm still PTSD over that shit. The drama, the ship wars, the way the canon went down (not in terms of shipping-I never thought H/hr would be canon-but in terms of the plot itself). And yet, I still have stories to tell there; at this point they're like, my own personal AU, but they're probably still worth writing even if I'm not "really" in the fandom anymore at this point.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Harry Potter Seamus/Dean, but I wouldn't say it's entirely nostalgic, even if it isn't top of mind these days. I mean, there are chapters written and an outline to be reworked for the project that I'd started, and I'm a finisher type of gal. Never mind that writing that will probably help me to work through all the issues referenced above.
The mysterious dark gothy one with whom you used to sit up talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy: CSI, where I read and reviewed for a summer. Lotta BDSM in CSI slash fandom, it's weird. The other day I was going to do a Gil/Nick rec list to sort of put that all to bed, but looking at those fics and remembering the hopes for Nick in the wake of "Grave Danger" just made me sad.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town: Starsky & Hutch, where I lurked for a summer. Great fic, especially the old stuff from the zines, and I read a lot of it in sort of a fever one summer. Closed canon ftw, but the schmoopy gen sort of freaks me out a heck of a lot more than any of the slash.
The steady: American Idol: the show and Rymon. It's why I never say, "I'll never write this again" etc, because that's what I said when I posted my first Rymon fic and look where I am now. Rymon is a renewable resource, there every year, which allows me for the most part to skim along the top of the ongoing singer-based drama. We're small but awesome! And it's probably one of the very few shows I enjoy really discussing the ins and outs of.
The ex: American Idol: Cake. It was a good time, and I've made great friends, but while I'll probably be OTP about them in any other Idol AU's I write, I don't think I'd write something centering around them again. The fandom itself wasn't a great fit for my priorities and sensibilities, which has led to other problems, so it's best that I just leave that one lie.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Avatar: the Last Airbender, though that hasn't been for all that long. I'm pondering fic, and ali_wildgoose thinks I should write it before canon closes, but there's so much other stuff in my head at present I'm not sure I'll be able to get it out before July, not to mention that since the novelization came out I'm not sure canon hasn't already closed.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: How I Met Your Mother. Love the show, love talking about it with friends, recommend it to everyone I know. But the yuletide fic might have been it, my Statement on Matters HIMYM, and I have no desire to get into that fandom proper.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: Battlestar Gallactica. I mean, we'll see; it may well be a show I like watching as it ends, but other than reading a few things here or there, I don't want to get fandomy about.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Stargate Atlantis. And it isn't just the babes, it's the meta, not just on the show, but on the fics. Every time someone on my flist posts about being destroyed by a fic, it's an SGA fic, and I have to admit, I feel totally jealous. Don't get me wrong; I really like what I write. But my stories aren't going to destroy anyone, or prompt discussion. So I look upon SGA somewhat wistfully.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Supernatural. It's just, IMO, not a good show, and it will go the way of Smallville and all those other not-good shows with enough action or monsters to be sort of genre, lots of cute boys, weird gender issues, a small cast-in other words, random militant slasher catnip.