Poll: Fandoms I Have Loved: Reader Input

[thefourthvine]

I'm just curious, really. I have a lot of half-finished FIHL posts sitting on my hard drive - all the ones listed below are somewhere between 1% and 80% complete - and I guess, now that I've finished with Smallville, I'm feeling a little...unfocused.

Pointers, anyone?

ETA: I have already done (in reverse order) Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis,

Comments

[thefourthvine]

You don't get a vote, darn it. I'm still bitter about how I acquired a new fandom pretty much through icons of a pig in a leather costume. I mean, seriously - that is not a story that's gonna make me Fan of the Month down at the Intensive Fan Addiction Clinic.

Although, yeah, Hercules is totally worth doing. You would not believe the chats BB and I have had over that show lately. (Example:

BB, eyeing the newly-arrived Seasons 2 and 3 DVD sets: "You know, if I didn't read your LJ, I wouldn't even have known these were coming. First rule of marriage: you're supposed to give your spouse warning before you do something really drastic."

Me, launching into the first of a full dozen prepared excuses: "It wasn't my fault! It was Mary Crawford! You know, the one with the pig icons! I was...under a spell, and also there was this demon, and some leather pants, and..."

BB: "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TURN YOUR LIFE INTO A HERCULES EPISODE."

[There is a thoughtful pause.]

BB, consideringly: "Although if you're going to anyway, I guess I'd better, you know, check out the discs. That way we can, um, pick the best one."

Me, supportively: "Excellent idea!"

BB: "Also, I get to be Iolaus.")

[marycrawford]

*DIES*

See, I think I deserve a vote for that. HEE. Or possibly I could go post in my LJ and incite people to come over here? Ya think? *plots*

I just sort of really want a running HtLJ commentary by you and your BB. I think that would make me entirely happy. (Okay, and yes, recs would be wonderful and I'd love it if you did some. It's just that the BB dialogues are cracking me up. He gets to be Iolaus! AW.)

I was...under a spell, and also there was this demon, and some leather pants, and..."

Hey, did you know Hercules actually turns into a demon in season six? With horns and everything!

*runs*

[marycrawford]

He gets to be Iolaus!

Or um. she. *is a dolt*

[thefourthvine]

You are not an idiot. English is, for not giving us a neutral pronoun. But, seriously, BB is very used to being he and she on LJ, because I forget to say "she" often enough.

*curses English's tiresomely gender specific ways*

[thefourthvine]

I just sort of really want a running HtLJ commentary by you and your BB.

*snerk* Um. No. That would be - that would be disturbing. Yes.

And I have no intention of revealing in a public place just how hysterical I thought it was that the Amazons had to hold their breasts as they ran down the hill.

Oh. Wait. Whoops.

Hey, did you know Hercules actually turns into a demon in season six? With horns and everything!

Oh my god. Now we're running into - see, okay. There's this old movie called Legend, and it is - it is the funniest thing I have ever seen, for so very, very many reasons. (The sprite played by a tiny lightbulb on a very visible string! The unicorns with horns that wobble around on their heads when they gallop! The way that hell only has one person in it! Well, two if you count Satan.) I know a lot of people love it for reasons of actual plot, but I love it because - well, because Satan has horns on which the seam from the mold is clearly visible.

Now I'm picturing Hercules wearing similar horns. And I'm realizing that BB's Theory of Hercules ("It's really about hats. And other assorted headwear.") is entirely correct.

My brain is a place of legend right now. (And the legend is "Hercules and the Minotaur Costume of Doom.")

[elynross]

I'm still bitter about how I acquired a new fandom pretty much through icons of a pig in a leather costume.

*giggles madly*

At least she did it to me through whole vids. Hee hee hee hee. Okay, it was actually through a few snapshots of Iolaus flirting, but. *kof*

Although porkules was v. v. enticing.

[thefourthvine]

Okay, it was actually through a few snapshots of Iolaus flirting, but.

You still totally trump me on the fan coolness scale. Icons! I was seduced into a fandom by pig icons! My shame is intense.

marycrawford should be required to wear some kind of warning wherever she goes. (Ideally something more concise than, "If you spend more than two minutes talking to me, you're going to have a profoundly humiliating story to tell all your fannish friends.")

But, I mean - Porkules! What could I do but succumb?

[brown_betty]

Demons and leather pants describes so many fandoms. It's the pig that makes H:tlJ stand out.

[thefourthvine]

Demons and leather pants describes so many fandoms.

I'm very disturbed by the accuracy of this statement. I just want you to know that.

But! You have made a scientific discovery of no little merit: apparently demons + leather pants is one of the terms in the Grand Unified Fandom equation. You should publish this.