Recently, I experienced what was apparently a fever-related critical intelligence failure and imported all my bookmarks to del.icio.us
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I've never been involved in LotR fandom (just read the books obsessively from the age of 10 but I guess that doesn't count for much when it comes to alabaster skin stuff...) and I'm snickering helplessly over 'Leggy'. In an I laugh so I do not weep salty tears way.
And Out of Whack! I read that after seeing one TS episode last month and even though I barely knew what was going on, it made me want to find out more, right the hell now. I've turned into a complete Sentinel junkie in the last few weeks and my bookmarks for it are almost as numerous as for Stargate :;marvels::
I would soon acquire an unholy passion for reconstructing canon from fan fiction.
I would love to read more about that, because, yes. Coming to a fandom through fic first (which I didn't do with Buffy, but did with Stargate and TS) is fascinating and fraught. You get hit on the head with what the fandom perceives as the top ten vital points (vids are especially prone to this) and they acquire a significance because of that so that when you see them in the episode, they're surrounded by a halo and a chorus of angels.
There's a danger of absorbing stuff that isn't canon-based and taking it as canon, though; I thought 'Guide' and 'dialing senses' was solid canon and it's slightly less so than the fics would have you think - but that doesn't bother me because fan fic pretty much always becomes self-referential and fanon as well as canon-based over time. Which isn't by definition a bad thing, IMO; in fact, it's inevitable.
I've never been involved in LotR fandom (just read the books obsessively from the age of 10 but I guess that doesn't count for much when it comes to alabaster skin stuff.
*snerk*
No, he occasionally went down the "Yay! ADJECTIVES!" road, but thank god he never veered off into Really Inappropriate Adjectives Lane.
I have, though, read (relatively well-known) fantasy authors who called eyes "radiant orbs" and referred to "her sweep of raven locks."
And with books, there's no back button. All you can do is donate them to the library.
I read that after seeing one TS episode last month and even though I barely knew what was going on, it made me want to find out more, right the hell now. I've turned into a complete Sentinel junkie in the last few weeks and my bookmarks for it are almost as numerous as for Stargate
*bouncy*
Yay Sentinel! The FF is wonderful, and I still read the new stuff (when I can find it) with glee.
And, bonus: for me, at least, it was a gateway drug to due South.
Coming to a fandom through fic first (which I didn't do with Buffy, but did with Stargate and TS) is fascinating and fraught.
It is indeed. I've developed techniques for getting around most of the major pitfalls, though; like, in TS, I know that there's only one episode where Blair is ever called guide, and then it's not how fans use it. (Of course, since the ep titles mean nothing to me, I don't know which one it is.)
Which isn't by definition a bad thing, IMO; in fact, it's inevitable.
Yes, exactly. Small fandoms tend to stay close to the canon, but the more you add to any given universe (and FF does just that), the more you get away from the original (canonical) core. And I actually love that - love the way FF develops and fleshes out and extends the canonical world.
And I particularly love the way fan fiction references fannish knowledge, including other major FF stories. This makes me deeply happy. And, of course, that's how fanon develops, but even then - well, I need to know that capital-g guides aren't canonical, but at the same time, I love the TS universe as modified by fans, you know? Sometimes things become fanon because they make sense.
(And sometimes they become fanon for entirely other reasons. I'm just saying - fanon doesn't necessarily mean bad, and I'm sad when people say it does.)
And Out of Whack! I read that after seeing one TS episode last month and even though I barely knew what was going on, it made me want to find out more, right the hell now. I've turned into a complete Sentinel junkie in the last few weeks and my bookmarks for it are almost as numerous as for Stargate :;marvels::
I would soon acquire an unholy passion for reconstructing canon from fan fiction.
I would love to read more about that, because, yes. Coming to a fandom through fic first (which I didn't do with Buffy, but did with Stargate and TS) is fascinating and fraught. You get hit on the head with what the fandom perceives as the top ten vital points (vids are especially prone to this) and they acquire a significance because of that so that when you see them in the episode, they're surrounded by a halo and a chorus of angels.
There's a danger of absorbing stuff that isn't canon-based and taking it as
canon, though; I thought 'Guide' and 'dialing senses' was solid canon and it's slightly less so than the fics would have you think - but that doesn't bother me because fan fic pretty much always becomes self-referential and fanon as well as canon-based over time. Which isn't by definition a bad thing, IMO; in fact, it's inevitable.
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*snerk*
No, he occasionally went down the "Yay! ADJECTIVES!" road, but thank god he never veered off into Really Inappropriate Adjectives Lane.
I have, though, read (relatively well-known) fantasy authors who called eyes "radiant orbs" and referred to "her sweep of raven locks."
And with books, there's no back button. All you can do is donate them to the library.
I read that after seeing one TS episode last month and even though I barely knew what was going on, it made me want to find out more, right the hell now. I've turned into a complete Sentinel junkie in the last few weeks and my bookmarks for it are almost as numerous as for Stargate
*bouncy*
Yay Sentinel! The FF is wonderful, and I still read the new stuff (when I can find it) with glee.
And, bonus: for me, at least, it was a gateway drug to due South.
Coming to a fandom through fic first (which I didn't do with Buffy, but did with Stargate and TS) is fascinating and fraught.
It is indeed. I've developed techniques for getting around most of the major pitfalls, though; like, in TS, I know that there's only one episode where Blair is ever called guide, and then it's not how fans use it. (Of course, since the ep titles mean nothing to me, I don't know which one it is.)
Which isn't by definition a bad thing, IMO; in fact, it's inevitable.
Yes, exactly. Small fandoms tend to stay close to the canon, but the more you add to any given universe (and FF does just that), the more you get away from the original (canonical) core. And I actually love that - love the way FF develops and fleshes out and extends the canonical world.
And I particularly love the way fan fiction references fannish knowledge, including other major FF stories. This makes me deeply happy. And, of course, that's how fanon develops, but even then - well, I need to know that capital-g guides aren't canonical, but at the same time, I love the TS universe as modified by fans, you know? Sometimes things become fanon because they make sense.
(And sometimes they become fanon for entirely other reasons. I'm just saying - fanon doesn't necessarily mean bad, and I'm sad when people say it does.)
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So was I in September 2004 but I got in trouble for it and kicked off a kerfuffle ;-)
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