You can run, but ...
My return to the Xenaverse doesn't seem to be abating. On the contrary, it's actually gaining momentum. I've gone as far as re-watching a couple of episodes a week -- haven't done that in at least ... hmm... five years. (My God, I've been in this fandom for 12 years! The current generation of fans at the XOC forum was still in preschool when I was watching Season 1!)
As that fandom meme said: this is The One for me. There will be other fandoms and other ships might sail, but nothing will ever rival XWP and Xena/Ares. It's like the perfect drug designed to hook me: Greek mythology (a childhood fascination) and Roman history; a dark, fascinating, conflicted (and female!) hero; swords and fantasy; humour and tragedy and farce and sweeping epics; geek chic; moral dilemmas; an amazingly flexible 'universe' for fanfic or general flights of fancy... and of course, Xena and Ares. The only ship I've ever encountered where both characters are equal and perfectly matched, and where the chemistry feels so utterly, blisteringly real.
Maybe I'm on a sort of elliptical orbit around it: sometimes closer, sometimes further. Always coming back.
As that fandom meme said: this is The One for me. There will be other fandoms and other ships might sail, but nothing will ever rival XWP and Xena/Ares. It's like the perfect drug designed to hook me: Greek mythology (a childhood fascination) and Roman history; a dark, fascinating, conflicted (and female!) hero; swords and fantasy; humour and tragedy and farce and sweeping epics; geek chic; moral dilemmas; an amazingly flexible 'universe' for fanfic or general flights of fancy... and of course, Xena and Ares. The only ship I've ever encountered where both characters are equal and perfectly matched, and where the chemistry feels so utterly, blisteringly real.
Maybe I'm on a sort of elliptical orbit around it: sometimes closer, sometimes further. Always coming back.