In which Katta needs advice on how to proceed as a Sherlock Holmes movie fangirl
So. I'm still into the new Sherlock Holmes movie, to the extent that even the girl I went to see it with (and who also liked it) called me a fangirl and teased me about my love for Watson. (I love Holmes and Adler too, it's just more unexpected with... No, I love Watson more, I can't hide it.)
And I've started lurking on comms and reading a whole bunch of fanfic, and that raises the question of, what is polite in this situation? Because I want to jump in there and participate in the (movie) comms and - well, maybe not write, but certainly feedback a whole lot.
What I don't want to do, not right now, is search out any other versions. And that includes the original canon. I'll want to do that later, but I want to get off the high first.
And I'm well aware that the wank is stupid, and my spontaneous reaction is that it's fine to be a fan of the movie only, just like I was with X-men and to some extent Star Trek (because while I've loved many ST series, TOS was never one of them), and that other people are with Howl. But, well, this fandom is 100 years old, and I first found the comms through the wank. (Well, holmeswatson09. sherlock2009 and newbakerstreet I found through browsing.) So I get a bit nervous.
As for reading the books, I've read some of the short stories, and I've got some basic idea of what's what - after all, I did research on the fandom once upon a time, but I've never been a fan. I think part of the problem is that, as a kid, I started with the "snake crawling up a rope" story and simply went "how dumb is THAT!?" before returning to Christie where people pretty much stuck to arsenic. (In truth, I've never seen Christies as mysteries so much as books about how people react to mysteries. Even if they often react in predictable ways.)
But the plot of this film was pretty dumb too, and I enjoyed the hell out of it, so maybe years of Doctor Who and Buffy the Vampire Slayer has prepared my senses so that I'm now ready to enjoy bizarroplots. I'll definitely pick up a book at some point, but, well, I can't guarantee I'll like it. Meanwhile, the love I do have knows no bounds.
So, that's the question, I guess. In this state, which isn't so much newbieness as it's an unapologetic preference, is it more polite to lurk or to participate?
And I've started lurking on comms and reading a whole bunch of fanfic, and that raises the question of, what is polite in this situation? Because I want to jump in there and participate in the (movie) comms and - well, maybe not write, but certainly feedback a whole lot.
What I don't want to do, not right now, is search out any other versions. And that includes the original canon. I'll want to do that later, but I want to get off the high first.
And I'm well aware that the wank is stupid, and my spontaneous reaction is that it's fine to be a fan of the movie only, just like I was with X-men and to some extent Star Trek (because while I've loved many ST series, TOS was never one of them), and that other people are with Howl. But, well, this fandom is 100 years old, and I first found the comms through the wank. (Well, holmeswatson09. sherlock2009 and newbakerstreet I found through browsing.) So I get a bit nervous.
As for reading the books, I've read some of the short stories, and I've got some basic idea of what's what - after all, I did research on the fandom once upon a time, but I've never been a fan. I think part of the problem is that, as a kid, I started with the "snake crawling up a rope" story and simply went "how dumb is THAT!?" before returning to Christie where people pretty much stuck to arsenic. (In truth, I've never seen Christies as mysteries so much as books about how people react to mysteries. Even if they often react in predictable ways.)
But the plot of this film was pretty dumb too, and I enjoyed the hell out of it, so maybe years of Doctor Who and Buffy the Vampire Slayer has prepared my senses so that I'm now ready to enjoy bizarroplots. I'll definitely pick up a book at some point, but, well, I can't guarantee I'll like it. Meanwhile, the love I do have knows no bounds.
So, that's the question, I guess. In this state, which isn't so much newbieness as it's an unapologetic preference, is it more polite to lurk or to participate?