Fandom-Related Q&A Meme
I was going to post my Harry Potter blatherings, but then I saw this meme over at zinke and decided that that I so would rather do this instead.
Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom, lj stuff, fic writing, etc. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, ( Read more... )
Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom, lj stuff, fic writing, etc. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, ( Read more... )
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Would you rather be a wizard who trained at Hogwarts, a Jedi, or the companion of the Doctor?
Name a song that reminds you of something fanish you're into right now.
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*pout* This doesn't sound so epic unless you're familiar with the source material but trust me, it totally is: My Favorite Year with John Stewart. Tagline: "He's not a reporter. He's a comedian." (The famous quote from My Favorite Year is "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!")
Hogwarts, a Jedi, or the companion of the Doctor?
No contest. I get a light saber and a cool hoodie? SIGN ME UP!!
Name a song that reminds you of something fanishDude, how long you got? It generally takes me a while in the fandom, before I start associating songs with the show/movie. So most of these are classic fandoms for me. Here's a few just off the top of my head ( ... )
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DUDE. I would watch My Favourite Year with Jon Stewart in a HEARTBEAT. (I'm totally familiar with it. Peter O'Toole=one of my favourite actors ever.)
Hahahah that's quite a song list you've got going there. faaaaaaaaaaaaaanmix tiiiiime! Or, you know, playlist. Whatever. :P
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He's wonderful, isn't he? I should have guessed you would be a fan!
Hahahah that's quite a song list you've got going there.
Heh, well it was years in the making. :-) You notice none of the fandoms or songs are that new. I think the fastest I ever started associating a song with a fandom was "Fill my Little World" by the Feeling. If found that fanvid I posted over at you LJ about six months ago and I was playing it a lot, just because I liked the song. As it so happens I was rereading one of my favorite mangas at the time... and I realized that the lyrics fit the character so well, I can't separate the two anymore.
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(Not saying the meme is weird, I'm saying it's unusual for me to join in. So...)
- If you could be a male character in any work of fiction (TV/movie/book), who would you be? Is that because you identify with him or because you wish you were more like him? Or another reason?
- When you write fic, do you ever look at it after it's done and go, "OMG, that totally came from my life." Elaborate as much as you feel comfortable elaborating.
- What quirk or meme of fan fiction drives you most batty?
- It seems to be taken for granted that different fandoms have different demographics? Do you agree? What do you think about that?
Sorry, dear, I'm feeling chatty. You don't have to answer all. :)
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If you could be a male character in any work of fiction (TV/movie/book), who would you be?
Male character? Interesting. Hmmm... Charlie Young was the first one that popped into my head, probably because I identify with him, at least professionally. And Atticus Finch, from To Kill A Mockingbird because I want to be like him. There are plenty of other characters I love to death, but none I think I'd actually want to be.
When you write fic, do you ever look at it after it's done and go, "OMG, that totally came from my life."Well, yes and no. There have been plenty of times where real life will wind up in my fic, but so far it's always been deliberate. Once in a while, I will write a whole fic that is directly based on my own life, but usually it's just a line or observation or two that works well with what I'v written. It's probably because I'm such a slow writer. The words don't come easy for me, so I tend to ( ... )
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Aw, that's sweet! I love that answer. I should think of an answer to that question -- be back tomorrow with that.
usually it's just a line or observation or two that works well with what I'v written
Yeah, I was thinking about observations or character motivations. Like...if you know a character, you have to imagine what he'd want/do/say in a situation. It seems like that would be influenced by what you know to be true IRL, as well as what what you've seen the character want/do/say in the original work. Am I making sense?
You mean how the same show/movie/whatever can have different "cults" (ships, for example), that tend to have different demographics? No, but that's even more interesting! I hadn't even thought of it that way ( ... )
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Yes. That's definitely true. That's what I mean by "a line or observation". I'll take what I know to be true and apply it to fic. If I understand how someone behaves IRL and that's similar to who the character is, I'll use that as motivation. Or, if I'm writing fic that has a boy in his late teens/early twenties (like A:tLA or LWD... or the future fics with Josh & Donna's kids), I'm constantly asking myself if that's how one or both of my brothers would behave.
And I find, here on LJ, that the different comms and discussions I get into have different norms and stuff...so I infer demographics. I think of this one as more young and that one as more female and this other one as more queer etc.Oh, that's true. But it's partly because certain shows/movies/books/music/etc are deigned to attract a ( ... )
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