Comments | soupytwist: ... in which she's the biggest geek in the whole wide world

soupytwist

... in which she's the biggest geek in the whole wide world

Mar 08, 2005 16:39

OK, so rachel2205 asked me about multi-fandom love and asked which fandoms were most important to me and why. My comment got way too big for the comment box, so here it goes. If anyone wants to turn this into a fandom love meme, then please go right ahead, because I am all about discovering what people love and why.

( more geekiness begins here )

fandom, qaf, tolkien, b7, buffy, master and commander, west wing, hornblower, neil gaiman, potterania, sports night, the sentinel, stargate

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rachel2205 March 8 2005, 22:47:49 UTC

I do find it interesting that you don't roleplay in any of your 'verses.

And where the hell are Firefly and Buffy?!

Anyway, thanks for the response :)

soupytwist March 8 2005, 22:54:40 UTC

I think I've figured out the roleplay thing, actually; I want stories, not just interaction, and rpgs as a whole suck on that front. There are exceptions, but finding them and joining and stuff just takes way more time and effort than I've got to expend.

And Firefly's there! :P Buffy isn't mostly because I'm only into Buffy very peripherally; I like the show a lot, but I haven't really felt any desire for the fandom.

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soupytwist March 8 2005, 23:09:41 UTC

Milliways is definitely one of the exceptions, and that's one of the reasons I still read it. I am so in awe of the time the players must spend writing it if it takes that long just to keep up with the central plots I'm interested in. Dude.

Also, you and your freakish ability to get me to start thinking things like "long days and pleasant nights, sai" and "hile, gunslinger" - which is totally how I'm going to greet you when we meet up this summer, just so you know - have persuaded me that I am going to read the whole damn series before I go back to uni in October. *nods decisively*

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taintedrocky March 9 2005, 00:32:14 UTC

I didn't know you were a Sherlock Holmes fan :) I haven't read those stories in ages. Perhaps over spring break...

penguin2 March 9 2005, 00:48:36 UTC

Have you ever read the Mary Russell novels by Laurie R. King? They rock. She takes the canonical Holmes and follows him into his retirement years, where he meets a young student of...well, I won't say more. Lovely stuff.

soupytwist March 9 2005, 02:23:25 UTC

I have refused to on the principle that they are romance novels, and while romance novels are perfectly fine things, I can't see Holmes being in love with anybody but himself or Watson. (And possibly Irene Adler, but eh, I am far from convinced on that one. "The Woman" or not, he never cared about her even a tenth as much as he cared about Watson.)

Is this a sign that I should read them anyway?

penguin2 March 9 2005, 02:40:20 UTC

I'd give at least the first one - The Beekeeper's Apprentice - a try. Laurie King has done a lovely job of keeping to canon, extrapolating the personality and life of Holmes in his later years (and even there there is a little...surprise that makes sense). I was turned on to these novels by my dear friend neko_seraph with almost violent enthusiasm (on her part, hee). Wasn't aware they're meant to be romance novels!

This is unfair of me, but...muhahaha...Mary Russell, the protagonist, is a studiously geeky, insistently empirical, utterly non-romance-minded young Jewish scholar...

...gotcha!...

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mrsronweasley March 9 2005, 18:43:59 UTC

When you get here (WHEEEEEEEEEE! TWO DAYSSSSSSSSSS!!!) we will geek a LOT. We can sit at a diner and a geek over West Wing/Sports Night/Sherlock Holmes/HP for HOURS over coffee and maybe eggs and pancakes. :D

LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

ultharkitty March 9 2005, 19:30:51 UTC

Wow, I'm still impressed with how you amange to fit that into your life. Perhaps you have one of those time travelling devices... (thinks of Hermione) :)