Hats, etc. The entire point of this post is to direct people fic writers over to this other post which was probably a bad idea in and of itself.

Possibly we can discuss how bad an idea it is over here?

There's a gal on my f-list whom I've known for a number of years who is a superb writer of Man from U.N.C.L.E. fanfic, and also a voracious reader of same. She recently reposted this list she came up with a few years ago and I got her permission to share it with y'all ( Read more... )

And I'm feeling like such a fire starter, but TM fandom has come up once again in fandomsecrets. Check out 112 ( Read more... )

Open up pretty much any post in this community and you are likely to see lots and lots of comments. A lot of them are by the same ten to fifteen people, and many of them contain references to in-jokes that you may not understand unless you happened to have read the posts within which they originated ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I was forced by circumstances to take a break from LJ and fandom. At the time of my leaving, it appeared to me that the Tin Man fandom was in reasonably good health, with a steady stream of new fic and new installments to WIPs, and new comms being created ( Read more... )

Posts that I have thought of making but decided against it for various reasons:

1. Glimbrose and the fact that half of fandom thinks he's a virginal never-been-kissed nerd and the other half thinks he's a vampy manwhore who'll have anybody.
1a. Also: what's up with the "Oh, my folks? No, I don't talk to them because I'm a huge disappointment" ( Read more... )

So someone starts this new community, right? And suddenly the entire fandom is flooded with spam!

What's more, the spam is self-referential. It's meta-spam!

WTF, Tin Man fandom? WTF?