Fandoms I Have Loved 2: The Sentinel
The Sentinel was my first television fandom, so it was also the first fandom I entered without even the vaguest clue about the canon. I’ve learned a lot of helpful tricks for moving smoothly into unfamiliar territory, but I didn’t know them then, so I experienced some confusion at first. And when I say “some confusion,” I mean “an enormous amount
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*howls*
For me, my entire period of slash reading was before I'd seen the show. I ended up buying bootleg DVDs, and I watched about half. I'll get through them all one day (my stack of DVDs and tapes to watch eventually is scarily high), but the truth is, TS canon is definitely not as good as say, that of due South.
Good recs, BTW. My warning to any newbie in this fandom is--there are qute a few really angsty stories out there. I also have had more trouble with the characterization of Blair than Jim. Overly Macho!Jim is just annoying--Girly!Blair is traumatizing.
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Actually, no. I hope it was a howl completely at my expense; I certainly howled a bit when I realized what I'd done.
Excellent warnings, let me say. The characterizations can indeed be bad, though I don't think I've ever encountered Girly!Blair (actually, I'm probably repressing the memory).
And, oh, god, how could I forget to warn them about angst? Some authors in this canon ramp the angst level up past "Anne Rice under a pseudonym," past "Victorian melodrama," past soap opera, and past 11, all the way up to "16-year-old suburban loner girls who write lots of unrhymed poetry and have just had their hearts broken for the first time."
Though, actually, there are places on the dial even higher than that. Early Professionals slash, for example, combines purple prose and extreme angst to create a writing style I like to call "bruise ( ... )
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Angst is a matter of taste--I find that the real world offers all that I can handle, thank you kindly.
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Mission: to bring respect and understanding of diverse cultures to dictators, tyrants, and other totally dogmatic and harsh people. To move with canine stealth through the rainforest and other challenging terrain, seeking rebels, victims of oppression, unusually tasty local cuisine, and works of erotic native art. To expand my horizons and discover new uses for aloe vera - possibly a number of new uses, if my Sentinel's horizons also expand to the right degree.
See? Perfectly normal mission statement. Oh, wait, you probably meant the other kind of mission statement. Can't help you there.
Oh, and I need to tell you that I love the Stitch icon. Adore it, even. (If I had icons, I'd have one of Stitch with the bra on his head, you know, from the end of the movie. And possibly a quote about falling with style and grace.)
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But I tell you this - if they'd had Stitch with a bra on his head, or any picture that went with my LJ's new motto ("Sex: the Universal Fandom," which vamplover84 identified as the proper motto for all us sicko multi-fandom types), or an obscene trophy that I could label "the Slashy Awards," I'd have taken it. It's just - pictures of umbrellas and actors I don't recognize and unicorns didn't really work for this LJ, you know?
I've actually considered making a black type, white background icon with no picture, just the slogan "Icon Loser." 'Cause I just know that's what everyone is thinking when they look at my total absence of nifty representational pictures ( ... )
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And I totally love my new icon, too. You're welcome to use it, since it is, technically, yours, but I bet you won't be as proud of it as I am. No one could be.
Oooo! I have an icon!
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