Oh, Fandom, Never Change...
So, I was scrolling through the flist earlier and I saw the latest pictures of David Tennant and Georgia Moffat at Wimbledon... and a few of the comments were about what you would expect on tennant_love. You know, "Oh, he looks lovely in that cream coloured suit", "I can't tell which is hotter, the outside temp or him...". Low-level, well-meaning frivolity.
And then someone starts in on the Georgia Moffat hate. And it's not even serious hate. It's just a "Oh, damn, he has a girlfriend, I wish he didn't" "hate". And then someone jumps in and defends Georgia.
And then there's speculation about why they're so private. Maybe it's because she has a son in school. And then there's comments about whether they look happy or not...
I'm one of the founding members of dt_sexy_off. I understand that fangirling can walk the line between fun and creepy.
*sigh* Okay, I'm not doing this well.
I had the opportunity to be a very, very, very (can I emphasize this enough?) very minor celebrity in the Harry Potter fandom because of my association with PFW, which is a fanfiction podcast with a small but loyal audience of "fans", some of whom turn into friends. Some... remain fans. Through that experience, I realized that there's a difference between expressing interest in someone's life that they talked about openly (like inquiring after my health, as they sometimes would, or Jen's health, or Ryan's mother... all of which was okay, because we talked about it...), and then -- being intrusive.
At what point do we stop? I mean, I love David Tennant. I think he's hot. And more than that, I find him personally engaging and articulate and I daresay, extremely intelligent.
But where do I draw the line?
I try not to speculate on his personal relationships. I try not to read articles I find inappropriate and I try not to care who he's dating and what his personal relationships are like. I even got vaguely uncomfortable with some of the talk when he had injured his back.
I'm wondering if this is because of my experience of people thinking that they knew me, and then making assumptions, and then me having to be gentle about correcting their perceptions -- I mean, to this day, I still think there's a sense of entitlement among fans of writers and artists, that we have to produce to their standards and on their timetable, that can really be uncomfortable.
So anyway, my question is, Flist, on this Friday night... Where do YOU draw the line?
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So. What have I done with myself on my day off, you ask? Profound amounts of nothing. I think the_tenzo and I have mostly locked up the final chapter of To the Waters and the Wild and I took another look at a fic I wrote for a friend. I've also been contemplating my navel, thinking about the latest challenge from writerinatardis. I think it will be a difficult prompt for me to use my own style and voice in to tell the kind of story that I want to tell.
I've also been working, sort of... tangentially, on my remix fic. I think my main question with that, at least to myself, artistically, is how far I can go with the remix and still be respectful of the author, her original goals and her style, and do it my way. I chose the story I chose because of this person's masterlist, it's probably her least popular fic, and it deserves recognition, and because I liked the story line.
At first I was playing with expanding. And then changing POV and now... Hmm. We'll just have to see where my twisted brain takes it.
Fic dump tomorrow. I'm drabbling tonight -- anyone want to get in on a group drabble challenge? -- mostly so I can get all the fics due Wednesday done on time by jump-starting my muses.
And then someone starts in on the Georgia Moffat hate. And it's not even serious hate. It's just a "Oh, damn, he has a girlfriend, I wish he didn't" "hate". And then someone jumps in and defends Georgia.
And then there's speculation about why they're so private. Maybe it's because she has a son in school. And then there's comments about whether they look happy or not...
I'm one of the founding members of dt_sexy_off. I understand that fangirling can walk the line between fun and creepy.
*sigh* Okay, I'm not doing this well.
I had the opportunity to be a very, very, very (can I emphasize this enough?) very minor celebrity in the Harry Potter fandom because of my association with PFW, which is a fanfiction podcast with a small but loyal audience of "fans", some of whom turn into friends. Some... remain fans. Through that experience, I realized that there's a difference between expressing interest in someone's life that they talked about openly (like inquiring after my health, as they sometimes would, or Jen's health, or Ryan's mother... all of which was okay, because we talked about it...), and then -- being intrusive.
At what point do we stop? I mean, I love David Tennant. I think he's hot. And more than that, I find him personally engaging and articulate and I daresay, extremely intelligent.
But where do I draw the line?
I try not to speculate on his personal relationships. I try not to read articles I find inappropriate and I try not to care who he's dating and what his personal relationships are like. I even got vaguely uncomfortable with some of the talk when he had injured his back.
I'm wondering if this is because of my experience of people thinking that they knew me, and then making assumptions, and then me having to be gentle about correcting their perceptions -- I mean, to this day, I still think there's a sense of entitlement among fans of writers and artists, that we have to produce to their standards and on their timetable, that can really be uncomfortable.
So anyway, my question is, Flist, on this Friday night... Where do YOU draw the line?
**
So. What have I done with myself on my day off, you ask? Profound amounts of nothing. I think the_tenzo and I have mostly locked up the final chapter of To the Waters and the Wild and I took another look at a fic I wrote for a friend. I've also been contemplating my navel, thinking about the latest challenge from writerinatardis. I think it will be a difficult prompt for me to use my own style and voice in to tell the kind of story that I want to tell.
I've also been working, sort of... tangentially, on my remix fic. I think my main question with that, at least to myself, artistically, is how far I can go with the remix and still be respectful of the author, her original goals and her style, and do it my way. I chose the story I chose because of this person's masterlist, it's probably her least popular fic, and it deserves recognition, and because I liked the story line.
At first I was playing with expanding. And then changing POV and now... Hmm. We'll just have to see where my twisted brain takes it.
Fic dump tomorrow. I'm drabbling tonight -- anyone want to get in on a group drabble challenge? -- mostly so I can get all the fics due Wednesday done on time by jump-starting my muses.