imetaquote (3/3 ljversary posts)
Or some reasons to love fandom...
Fandom-specific stuff
Quote which made me think of Faith/Dean and smile:
Thinking about crossovers today, probably thanks to ithurtsmybrain. There's universe-meshing, team-up kind, the "Wait, you're a fictional character" type, and the ever popular "two characters meet in a bar andthentheyhadsex" genre (of which Lex, Faith, Methos and Krycek practically have their own subgenres.)
[liviapenn Source.]
Regarding X3:
Famke: Sooo. What does Jean DO in this scene?
Director: She looms.
F: Looms?
D: Yes, looms mightily!
F:...
D: I'M BRILLIANT!
*stab*
[tequilakitten Source]
Panfandom.
The thoughtprovoking
Why we fic:
It's always intriguing to see intimacy between characters, to see people prodding each other open. When a plot exposes intimacy but doesn't follow it, it's a natural impulse to be curious about it.
[minyan Source.]
On why spoilers spoil the experience for spoilerphobes (like me):
One of my best friends reads the last few pages of a book first, often before she buys it or borrows it, to see if she wants to read the whole thing. I cannot fathom operating like that, and we have many friendly discussions in which I harp on her about how context is important, how the journey gives the ending its worth, etc. etc. When she told me she won't ever read my favorite book because she peeked at the ending and thought it was stupid, I contemplated kicking her. Ok, not really, but it's not something I understand because I'm the type who is happiest when I can be swept up in the text and become a part of the world on an instinctual level. Of course I enjoy the intellectual as well, the detached appreciation of the layers of characterization, the way a film or television show is shot and edited, foreshadowing and symbolism in both written and visual mediums. But my favorite viewing/reading is always the first, when I can be right there with the characters, be surprised when they are and sometimes, to experience that a-ha moment when I "figure out" what's going on, without being told (Sixth Sense was like this-- and it's something I can never get back on rewatching).
[zenstate Source.]
On fannish community and feedback:
We write for each other. We provide each other with excuses to write, we write love notes to each other for writing, we just encourage the daylights out of each other.
[I cite the whole paragraph, though it's the final metaphor that does it for me]
Every piece of fan fiction is not equally worthwhile. It's not all great art. But if fandom does anything, it encourages people to write and create, to hone their skills. In fandom you can cut your chops. When I see the work that young women in their late teens and early 20s are producing in fandom, I am ecstatic. I know that by providing a place to practice and eager, appreciative readers, we are making writers. We are writing midwives, whispering "Okay, now-push!"
[schemingreader Source.]
And the smile-provoking:
On what a good beta reader should be able to say:
"I have no idea what's going on in this scene. Why are there penguins? Is it symbolic?"
[penknife Source.]
On feedback:
The only really horrifying negative critiques are from people who don't know what they're doing or didn't bother to read carefully. They send you away in sorrow for the human race.
[koimisteress Source.]
Response to accusations of bias in reccing:
If I had a pony for every time someone accused me of being in a cabal, I'd need a ranch and some cowboys to run it. Where are my hot cowboys, fandom?
[shrift Surce.]
And because I read it recently:
Crash, a movie that was essentially a radical Dadaist experiment in attempting to write something with no subtext whatsoever.
[The Man from FUNKLE Source.]
Fandom-specific stuff
Quote which made me think of Faith/Dean and smile:
Thinking about crossovers today, probably thanks to ithurtsmybrain. There's universe-meshing, team-up kind, the "Wait, you're a fictional character" type, and the ever popular "two characters meet in a bar andthentheyhadsex" genre (of which Lex, Faith, Methos and Krycek practically have their own subgenres.)
[liviapenn Source.]
Regarding X3:
Famke: Sooo. What does Jean DO in this scene?
Director: She looms.
F: Looms?
D: Yes, looms mightily!
F:...
D: I'M BRILLIANT!
*stab*
[tequilakitten Source]
Panfandom.
The thoughtprovoking
Why we fic:
It's always intriguing to see intimacy between characters, to see people prodding each other open. When a plot exposes intimacy but doesn't follow it, it's a natural impulse to be curious about it.
[minyan Source.]
On why spoilers spoil the experience for spoilerphobes (like me):
One of my best friends reads the last few pages of a book first, often before she buys it or borrows it, to see if she wants to read the whole thing. I cannot fathom operating like that, and we have many friendly discussions in which I harp on her about how context is important, how the journey gives the ending its worth, etc. etc. When she told me she won't ever read my favorite book because she peeked at the ending and thought it was stupid, I contemplated kicking her. Ok, not really, but it's not something I understand because I'm the type who is happiest when I can be swept up in the text and become a part of the world on an instinctual level. Of course I enjoy the intellectual as well, the detached appreciation of the layers of characterization, the way a film or television show is shot and edited, foreshadowing and symbolism in both written and visual mediums. But my favorite viewing/reading is always the first, when I can be right there with the characters, be surprised when they are and sometimes, to experience that a-ha moment when I "figure out" what's going on, without being told (Sixth Sense was like this-- and it's something I can never get back on rewatching).
[zenstate Source.]
On fannish community and feedback:
We write for each other. We provide each other with excuses to write, we write love notes to each other for writing, we just encourage the daylights out of each other.
[I cite the whole paragraph, though it's the final metaphor that does it for me]
Every piece of fan fiction is not equally worthwhile. It's not all great art. But if fandom does anything, it encourages people to write and create, to hone their skills. In fandom you can cut your chops. When I see the work that young women in their late teens and early 20s are producing in fandom, I am ecstatic. I know that by providing a place to practice and eager, appreciative readers, we are making writers. We are writing midwives, whispering "Okay, now-push!"
[schemingreader Source.]
And the smile-provoking:
On what a good beta reader should be able to say:
"I have no idea what's going on in this scene. Why are there penguins? Is it symbolic?"
[penknife Source.]
On feedback:
The only really horrifying negative critiques are from people who don't know what they're doing or didn't bother to read carefully. They send you away in sorrow for the human race.
[koimisteress Source.]
Response to accusations of bias in reccing:
If I had a pony for every time someone accused me of being in a cabal, I'd need a ranch and some cowboys to run it. Where are my hot cowboys, fandom?
[shrift Surce.]
And because I read it recently:
Crash, a movie that was essentially a radical Dadaist experiment in attempting to write something with no subtext whatsoever.
[The Man from FUNKLE Source.]