Fandom has taken over my life
I'm struck lately by how much fandom has worked it's way into nearly every thought I have, and today is an amusing example of that. I went to see a friend perform in her first performance with our state's Master Choral in a beautiful cathedral downtown. The performance was really beautiful, everyone was clearly quite talented and well rehearsed, but during that two and a half hour span I had three separate instances of fannish thought, during an activity that has nothing to do with fandom in the least.
We got to the church way early so we could get a seat up front. While waiting I thought I might entertain myself by reading a bit of a fic I started earlier on my iPhone, The People We Are, The Choices We Make by
syredronning(Star Trek), when I realized that reading fannish gay BDSM pr0n in the cathedral might be considered sacrilegious by everyone else there and that if I don't already have a ticket to Hell, that would surely get me one. So I read the program a few times instead.
Then I thought about
thalialunacy ,who is going to school to study Opera. I thought it would be cool if I could see her perform and then we could hang out afterward. I amused myself for a while thinking of how we could watch Trek and talk about Chris and Karl and she could tell me all about the new fics she's writing. Sadly, we live on opposite sides of the country and she wasn't performing tonight.
One of the pieces that were performed was Dvorak's Mass in D (links to the other parts in the box to the right.). It's performed in Latin, and it made me think of Written by the Victors by Speranza (SGA). The fic is academic and quite geeky and brilliant and really unique and is a must read for all Stargate Atlantis fans. But the relevant part is that Aesc made fanworks based on the Victer 'Verse (scroll down to the Ars Atlantinae section). She wrote a poem about Sheppard called Se Narsaugir, translated it into a language she's creating (a la Tolkien), and Cate recorded herself chanting the aural version. (The Iohannes Cash Poem was excellent too, and really amused me) The language sounds vaguely like Latin, at least to my untrained ear, so I spent a while during the Dvorak performance imagining they were singing about John and Rodney and the Atlantis Uprising, and what they might be saying. It was a really nice way to enjoy the beautiful music.
So apparently reading fic and watching vids every chance I get isn't enough, fandom also has to permeate my dreams and every waking thought I have. Does anyone else have this problem? ;)
We got to the church way early so we could get a seat up front. While waiting I thought I might entertain myself by reading a bit of a fic I started earlier on my iPhone, The People We Are, The Choices We Make by
syredronning(Star Trek), when I realized that reading fannish gay BDSM pr0n in the cathedral might be considered sacrilegious by everyone else there and that if I don't already have a ticket to Hell, that would surely get me one. So I read the program a few times instead.
Then I thought about
thalialunacy ,who is going to school to study Opera. I thought it would be cool if I could see her perform and then we could hang out afterward. I amused myself for a while thinking of how we could watch Trek and talk about Chris and Karl and she could tell me all about the new fics she's writing. Sadly, we live on opposite sides of the country and she wasn't performing tonight.
One of the pieces that were performed was Dvorak's Mass in D (links to the other parts in the box to the right.). It's performed in Latin, and it made me think of Written by the Victors by Speranza (SGA). The fic is academic and quite geeky and brilliant and really unique and is a must read for all Stargate Atlantis fans. But the relevant part is that Aesc made fanworks based on the Victer 'Verse (scroll down to the Ars Atlantinae section). She wrote a poem about Sheppard called Se Narsaugir, translated it into a language she's creating (a la Tolkien), and Cate recorded herself chanting the aural version. (The Iohannes Cash Poem was excellent too, and really amused me) The language sounds vaguely like Latin, at least to my untrained ear, so I spent a while during the Dvorak performance imagining they were singing about John and Rodney and the Atlantis Uprising, and what they might be saying. It was a really nice way to enjoy the beautiful music.
So apparently reading fic and watching vids every chance I get isn't enough, fandom also has to permeate my dreams and every waking thought I have. Does anyone else have this problem? ;)