The State of the Zelda fannishness
aka, that really long post I alluded to yesterday.
The fandom I've been drifting away from: HP.
The maternal unit, who is currently rereading the books, and I recently discussed this. I, upon finishing book 7, came out feeling quite let down. I'm not certain if it was due to my emotional investment (I was an active fandomer, she isn't) but my thought was "oh, it's over" and a slight feeling of discontentment. There are a lot of reasons why I reacted that way, but the fandom is not longer at the top of my list. I'm not really keeping up with fandom much, I'm reading two WIPs at the moment: jedibuttercup's backagainharry and the beautiful, AU after 4th year, 'I've reread all 42 chapters so many times I can quote them' crossover Keogh, Chelleybean's cross with the series Necroscope. It's a series/fandom I'm not familiar with, but that's okay because she's given me all the background I need. And she's admitted to being fast and loose with the canon, so not knowing is possibly better.
The fandom I fell in and out of so fast I broke the sound barrier: Bones.
I fell in love with Bones this past December - I'd just moved cross-country and all of my belongings were in my new place without power due to the ice storm. Ref using to stay in a powerless and freezing cold until New Year's house with family so close by, so I stayed at Mom's. She had just started a Bones S1 and I loved it. I borrowed her S2, put a season pass in my DVR for the rest of S3 and went to town. By the end of S3 I was out of love. The continuity fairy had been thrown under the train, one of my favorite characters had their characterization massacred for a 'plot twist' (and the massacre was all the more apparent for watching S1 and S2 back to back months earlier) and I realized that I no longer trust the show runner. Given what HH has said in interviews since, I actually would have preferred the original intention for said character. Add in what has been hinted at for the future and HH's apparent intent to turn the show into a RomCom instead of a police procedural, I'm no longer interested. (RomComs are fine, just not for me.) Ah, well, I'll always have S1 - well Mom does. (And TWOP, I love the Bones thread over there. :x)
The new and shiny that has me doing the crazy like reading message boards and visiting the Pit of Voles: CSI: New York.
(Note: I normally hate nonthreaded messageboards - I check once a day, get confused when people are responding to a post two pages earlier, etc. As for ff.net, I was terribly spoiled with HP, Sentinel, SG-1 and M7 - they all have great non-ff.net archives that are more user friendly, etc.)
I've had a TV!crush on Melina Kanakaredes for years. I have a wonderful new TV!crush on Eddie Cahill (and Vanessa Ferlito and Emmanuelle Vaugier...) now. (It's almost enough to get me to Netflix Friends and Sex & the City - I've already gotten Miracle.) While the original recipe has gotten old and tired (especially now considering the casting announcement yesterday) and Miami reeks of Eau de HoCaine (I watched the season ender just to see him shot and I'll admit I cheered.), NY has been a breath of dark and gritty fresh air. I adore Flack, Stella's awesome, I loved (and miss( Aiden (in my special AU world she did get her PI license and stuck around) and there are times I feel I'm one of the few in fandom who likes Lindsey (I know there are others but sometimes the Lindsey haters seem to be more vocal - Talk CSI is on their third 'Lindsey Must Go' thread). I love this show enough to go to the fandom messageboards despite my deep messageboard hatred and while S4 wasn't as awesomely awesome as S1, I'm still in love.
Oh Stargate and HP how I've been spoiled by you. You have dedicated archives, many times dedicated to a specific topic/pairing. CSI: NY, however, sends me to ff.net (there is at least one other archive but it is teeny compare to what's at ff.net), where while not teeny, there isn't exactly a lot there compared to my usual haunts (come on, Hannah Montana has more fic!) I've reached the point where I've read all the awesome fic that interests me (characters, pairings), I've read all the awesome fic that doesn't necessarily interest me, all the okay fic and further on. I've gotten to the point that I'll read fics I'd normally skip over because the craving is just so great. I've recently started rereading may favorites (including those fic I've reread 1000x times and can quote, like Hotwired by sarramaks) so I can do better about giving feedback. I've even bought the lastest profic tie-in. And I've entered an icon contest.
The fandom while not so new is still shiny even if I don't devour fic liek whoa - Criminal Minds.
It's been about a year since I fell in love and OMG I love this show. I've been on tenterhooks since the finale (I swear, CBS tried to give me a heart attack finale week this year) and have read every grassy-knollesque theory as to what happened - every frame-by-frame-analysis of who it could and couldn't have been. I have my theory, do you? One of the incredible dichotomies of this show and the previous (back-to-back Wednesday nights) is that while I love CSI:NY so much that I actively search out fic, with Criminal Minds the show is so perfect and beautiful, so well written that I don't need the additional fandom inputs. Oh, I'll read anything and everything that matociquala writes fic-wise and I watch the comms on my feedreader, but I just don't read as much fic there as CSI:NY. Perhaps in part because of:
The pro-fic author unauthorized sci-fi/urban fantasy tie-in to the not so new and shiny - Shadow Unit.
A bunch of my favorite profic SF authors happen to love the same show I do. And they decided to get together and write Criminal Minds meets something mutant-y or maybe X-Files with Profilers. It's SciFi, it's a police procedural, it's a TV show but in words on your computer screen and even though S1 has ended (and OMG did it ever!) the DVD extras are now running and being updated twice a week instead of every other Sunday. I'm in heave. And I do think this probably fulfills my every CM fandom need.
The not-so-new and mildly tarnish, but really only because I haven't had that marathon yet - Numb3rs.
I admit. I have about 8 hours of N3 on my DVR. I know what happens in the finale even thought I haven't seen it yet. (At this point, I think I'm putting the finale off until right before the premier.) I kept running out of time to watch the eps and now that reruns have started I realized this was the perfect way to catch those I missed and watch all in order. Some weekend (not this, however) I will have chips and dip and Coke Vanilla Zero (oh my GERD is already groaning) and marathon my way through. I read fic, though not as much as CSI:NY. I hate that Megan's gone (but completely understand DF's reason(s)d to leave) but don't understand WHY for the new character when Liz has been waiting in the wings for two seasons (and I'll say right now I'm a Don/Robin shipper more than a Don/Liz shipper but I still like Liz) and could have stepped up (thank god she's now a series regular). (I'm hearing conflicting reports on whether the new girl is a series regular or not. Right now I'm hoping not, there's not need for her or her horrible Mary Sue-esque character description. However, I may change my mind after the new season starts and I see her.)
The show I'm always a season behind on - Eureka.
I Netflixed S1 last summer and loved it. Then S2 started and I realized I can't watch this show week by week, I have to marathon it. S2 is at the top if my Netflix queue. I plan to DVR S3 and see if mini-marathons work. The problem with always being a season behind is that I do nothing fandom-wise unless I want to get severely spoiled. :(
The fandom that is an oldie-but-a-goodie, or they don't make them like the used to (really, Tom, I'm talking to you) - Mission: Impossible.
God I love this show. I grew up on reruns of this show. I remember (and loved despite how bad it was) the 1980's remake. I spent weeks mainlining this show in all of its awesomeness at the beginning of the year. However, S4 is just out and without Rollin and Cinnamon I am worried enough that it'll be a letdown that I didn't buy it. It's also in the Netflix queue and we'll see how it goes. Oh, and Tom Cruise has nothing on Peter Graves. Nothing. I'm actually tempted to write fic. Hopefully it'll pass.
The fandom that was sort-of my first and feels like I've been in forever even if I don't read much fic anymore: Magnificent Seven.
Technically I'd 'been' in other fandoms prior to M7. Cindy Combs Sentinel crosses were what got me. But M7 was the first fandom I actively participated in, wrote fic, did more than lurk on message boards. I had a great time. Now, M7 is kinda like that great cuddly, fuzzy blanket that you've had forever (and I'm sure the guys would take umbrage at that description). It's my comfort fic fandom, where I got addicted to 'next great adventure/next case' fics that are so hard to find in other fandoms. I'm still on the lists and still read the drabbles (though not much of the longer fic) but I really don't participate much. But I'm still there, darnnit.
The fandom that is an old standby even if it is ending - Stargate SG-1.
Little know fact. Stargate got me into HP. It was back when I was reading anything and everything Stargate that I could get my hands on no matter how horrible it was and there was a horrible HP crossover where Sam had been a Maurader and I didn't know the crossover fandom. So I read the books. And loved them (well, the first 4). If M7 is that fuzzy old blanket, the SG-1 is the teddy bear that you've almost had as long. I still read the occasional fic and I just found S9 for $20 at Target (even cheaper than the Deep Discount sale), but I only go back to it on occasion.
The show I think I would like if only I had the time to sit and watch the episodes dammit - In Plain Sight.
I think I'll really like this show. However, I need a marathon weekend to give it a try. I really need to stop booking my weekends full.
The show that might suffer the fate of the last except I'm totally gonna watch that first ep tomorrow night dammit - Flashpoint.
Hrm... Another police procedural. I'm sensing a trend. :P
The show that is totally my (current) guilty pleasure even if I'm ready to tell Nigel and Mia to STFU already: So You Think You Can Dance.
I love Will and Mark. I'm sick of having Kherrington shoved down my throat. I was prepared to hate Katee after the Vegas ep, but actually rather like her. I have a thing for underdogs, so I'm totally cheering for Jessica. Except, you know, she apparently injured herself and so Comfort is replacing her on the show and the tour. That spoiler in itself is almost enough to make me get rid of my season pass (goodness knows MTV will be showing a marathon or 15 in the future). (Note: I haven't yet watched tonight's ep. The lovely thing that is also a problem about DVR is that now I can skip commercials, so I never watch things when they're on and instead watch the next night. Or, you know, 8 weeks later.)
The show that is totally my other guilty pleasure except something has to go since it's on Wednesday nights as well: Project Runway.
I got addicted during the reruns of S1 and S3 over Christmas. I'm one of those who is unimpressed about the ship jump from Bravo to Lifetime. It's not so much that I think that the quality will go downhill as I'm annoyed that the networks automatically think I'll change networks. Yeah, I have Lifetime right now (I think) but it's not always true that every area has all the major cable networks available. When I moved to AZ I had the same cable provider as here, but because I was in another state I had to get digital cable to get one of my favorite networks. Yeah, I have digital now, but it's the principle of the thing - I don't like the show enough to upgrade just to get it. I'll probably give next season a go (if I like this season as much as last, part of me wonders if this isn't one of those 'best as a marathon' shows, I know SYTYCD is), but I'm not making any promises.
That other book fandom of mine that I was actually looking for fic in the other day (OMG someone hook me up): Dark is Rising.
This is another of those fuzzy blanket fandoms. I love it, though I'm not active in it, but I keep coming back. I'm due for another reread soon.
The fandom I've been drifting away from: HP.
The maternal unit, who is currently rereading the books, and I recently discussed this. I, upon finishing book 7, came out feeling quite let down. I'm not certain if it was due to my emotional investment (I was an active fandomer, she isn't) but my thought was "oh, it's over" and a slight feeling of discontentment. There are a lot of reasons why I reacted that way, but the fandom is not longer at the top of my list. I'm not really keeping up with fandom much, I'm reading two WIPs at the moment: jedibuttercup's backagainharry and the beautiful, AU after 4th year, 'I've reread all 42 chapters so many times I can quote them' crossover Keogh, Chelleybean's cross with the series Necroscope. It's a series/fandom I'm not familiar with, but that's okay because she's given me all the background I need. And she's admitted to being fast and loose with the canon, so not knowing is possibly better.
The fandom I fell in and out of so fast I broke the sound barrier: Bones.
I fell in love with Bones this past December - I'd just moved cross-country and all of my belongings were in my new place without power due to the ice storm. Ref using to stay in a powerless and freezing cold until New Year's house with family so close by, so I stayed at Mom's. She had just started a Bones S1 and I loved it. I borrowed her S2, put a season pass in my DVR for the rest of S3 and went to town. By the end of S3 I was out of love. The continuity fairy had been thrown under the train, one of my favorite characters had their characterization massacred for a 'plot twist' (and the massacre was all the more apparent for watching S1 and S2 back to back months earlier) and I realized that I no longer trust the show runner. Given what HH has said in interviews since, I actually would have preferred the original intention for said character. Add in what has been hinted at for the future and HH's apparent intent to turn the show into a RomCom instead of a police procedural, I'm no longer interested. (RomComs are fine, just not for me.) Ah, well, I'll always have S1 - well Mom does. (And TWOP, I love the Bones thread over there. :x)
The new and shiny that has me doing the crazy like reading message boards and visiting the Pit of Voles: CSI: New York.
(Note: I normally hate nonthreaded messageboards - I check once a day, get confused when people are responding to a post two pages earlier, etc. As for ff.net, I was terribly spoiled with HP, Sentinel, SG-1 and M7 - they all have great non-ff.net archives that are more user friendly, etc.)
I've had a TV!crush on Melina Kanakaredes for years. I have a wonderful new TV!crush on Eddie Cahill (and Vanessa Ferlito and Emmanuelle Vaugier...) now. (It's almost enough to get me to Netflix Friends and Sex & the City - I've already gotten Miracle.) While the original recipe has gotten old and tired (especially now considering the casting announcement yesterday) and Miami reeks of Eau de HoCaine (I watched the season ender just to see him shot and I'll admit I cheered.), NY has been a breath of dark and gritty fresh air. I adore Flack, Stella's awesome, I loved (and miss( Aiden (in my special AU world she did get her PI license and stuck around) and there are times I feel I'm one of the few in fandom who likes Lindsey (I know there are others but sometimes the Lindsey haters seem to be more vocal - Talk CSI is on their third 'Lindsey Must Go' thread). I love this show enough to go to the fandom messageboards despite my deep messageboard hatred and while S4 wasn't as awesomely awesome as S1, I'm still in love.
Oh Stargate and HP how I've been spoiled by you. You have dedicated archives, many times dedicated to a specific topic/pairing. CSI: NY, however, sends me to ff.net (there is at least one other archive but it is teeny compare to what's at ff.net), where while not teeny, there isn't exactly a lot there compared to my usual haunts (come on, Hannah Montana has more fic!) I've reached the point where I've read all the awesome fic that interests me (characters, pairings), I've read all the awesome fic that doesn't necessarily interest me, all the okay fic and further on. I've gotten to the point that I'll read fics I'd normally skip over because the craving is just so great. I've recently started rereading may favorites (including those fic I've reread 1000x times and can quote, like Hotwired by sarramaks) so I can do better about giving feedback. I've even bought the lastest profic tie-in. And I've entered an icon contest.
The fandom while not so new is still shiny even if I don't devour fic liek whoa - Criminal Minds.
It's been about a year since I fell in love and OMG I love this show. I've been on tenterhooks since the finale (I swear, CBS tried to give me a heart attack finale week this year) and have read every grassy-knollesque theory as to what happened - every frame-by-frame-analysis of who it could and couldn't have been. I have my theory, do you? One of the incredible dichotomies of this show and the previous (back-to-back Wednesday nights) is that while I love CSI:NY so much that I actively search out fic, with Criminal Minds the show is so perfect and beautiful, so well written that I don't need the additional fandom inputs. Oh, I'll read anything and everything that matociquala writes fic-wise and I watch the comms on my feedreader, but I just don't read as much fic there as CSI:NY. Perhaps in part because of:
The pro-fic author unauthorized sci-fi/urban fantasy tie-in to the not so new and shiny - Shadow Unit.
A bunch of my favorite profic SF authors happen to love the same show I do. And they decided to get together and write Criminal Minds meets something mutant-y or maybe X-Files with Profilers. It's SciFi, it's a police procedural, it's a TV show but in words on your computer screen and even though S1 has ended (and OMG did it ever!) the DVD extras are now running and being updated twice a week instead of every other Sunday. I'm in heave. And I do think this probably fulfills my every CM fandom need.
The not-so-new and mildly tarnish, but really only because I haven't had that marathon yet - Numb3rs.
I admit. I have about 8 hours of N3 on my DVR. I know what happens in the finale even thought I haven't seen it yet. (At this point, I think I'm putting the finale off until right before the premier.) I kept running out of time to watch the eps and now that reruns have started I realized this was the perfect way to catch those I missed and watch all in order. Some weekend (not this, however) I will have chips and dip and Coke Vanilla Zero (oh my GERD is already groaning) and marathon my way through. I read fic, though not as much as CSI:NY. I hate that Megan's gone (but completely understand DF's reason(s)d to leave) but don't understand WHY for the new character when Liz has been waiting in the wings for two seasons (and I'll say right now I'm a Don/Robin shipper more than a Don/Liz shipper but I still like Liz) and could have stepped up (thank god she's now a series regular). (I'm hearing conflicting reports on whether the new girl is a series regular or not. Right now I'm hoping not, there's not need for her or her horrible Mary Sue-esque character description. However, I may change my mind after the new season starts and I see her.)
The show I'm always a season behind on - Eureka.
I Netflixed S1 last summer and loved it. Then S2 started and I realized I can't watch this show week by week, I have to marathon it. S2 is at the top if my Netflix queue. I plan to DVR S3 and see if mini-marathons work. The problem with always being a season behind is that I do nothing fandom-wise unless I want to get severely spoiled. :(
The fandom that is an oldie-but-a-goodie, or they don't make them like the used to (really, Tom, I'm talking to you) - Mission: Impossible.
God I love this show. I grew up on reruns of this show. I remember (and loved despite how bad it was) the 1980's remake. I spent weeks mainlining this show in all of its awesomeness at the beginning of the year. However, S4 is just out and without Rollin and Cinnamon I am worried enough that it'll be a letdown that I didn't buy it. It's also in the Netflix queue and we'll see how it goes. Oh, and Tom Cruise has nothing on Peter Graves. Nothing. I'm actually tempted to write fic. Hopefully it'll pass.
The fandom that was sort-of my first and feels like I've been in forever even if I don't read much fic anymore: Magnificent Seven.
Technically I'd 'been' in other fandoms prior to M7. Cindy Combs Sentinel crosses were what got me. But M7 was the first fandom I actively participated in, wrote fic, did more than lurk on message boards. I had a great time. Now, M7 is kinda like that great cuddly, fuzzy blanket that you've had forever (and I'm sure the guys would take umbrage at that description). It's my comfort fic fandom, where I got addicted to 'next great adventure/next case' fics that are so hard to find in other fandoms. I'm still on the lists and still read the drabbles (though not much of the longer fic) but I really don't participate much. But I'm still there, darnnit.
The fandom that is an old standby even if it is ending - Stargate SG-1.
Little know fact. Stargate got me into HP. It was back when I was reading anything and everything Stargate that I could get my hands on no matter how horrible it was and there was a horrible HP crossover where Sam had been a Maurader and I didn't know the crossover fandom. So I read the books. And loved them (well, the first 4). If M7 is that fuzzy old blanket, the SG-1 is the teddy bear that you've almost had as long. I still read the occasional fic and I just found S9 for $20 at Target (even cheaper than the Deep Discount sale), but I only go back to it on occasion.
The show I think I would like if only I had the time to sit and watch the episodes dammit - In Plain Sight.
I think I'll really like this show. However, I need a marathon weekend to give it a try. I really need to stop booking my weekends full.
The show that might suffer the fate of the last except I'm totally gonna watch that first ep tomorrow night dammit - Flashpoint.
Hrm... Another police procedural. I'm sensing a trend. :P
The show that is totally my (current) guilty pleasure even if I'm ready to tell Nigel and Mia to STFU already: So You Think You Can Dance.
I love Will and Mark. I'm sick of having Kherrington shoved down my throat. I was prepared to hate Katee after the Vegas ep, but actually rather like her. I have a thing for underdogs, so I'm totally cheering for Jessica. Except, you know, she apparently injured herself and so Comfort is replacing her on the show and the tour. That spoiler in itself is almost enough to make me get rid of my season pass (goodness knows MTV will be showing a marathon or 15 in the future). (Note: I haven't yet watched tonight's ep. The lovely thing that is also a problem about DVR is that now I can skip commercials, so I never watch things when they're on and instead watch the next night. Or, you know, 8 weeks later.)
The show that is totally my other guilty pleasure except something has to go since it's on Wednesday nights as well: Project Runway.
I got addicted during the reruns of S1 and S3 over Christmas. I'm one of those who is unimpressed about the ship jump from Bravo to Lifetime. It's not so much that I think that the quality will go downhill as I'm annoyed that the networks automatically think I'll change networks. Yeah, I have Lifetime right now (I think) but it's not always true that every area has all the major cable networks available. When I moved to AZ I had the same cable provider as here, but because I was in another state I had to get digital cable to get one of my favorite networks. Yeah, I have digital now, but it's the principle of the thing - I don't like the show enough to upgrade just to get it. I'll probably give next season a go (if I like this season as much as last, part of me wonders if this isn't one of those 'best as a marathon' shows, I know SYTYCD is), but I'm not making any promises.
That other book fandom of mine that I was actually looking for fic in the other day (OMG someone hook me up): Dark is Rising.
This is another of those fuzzy blanket fandoms. I love it, though I'm not active in it, but I keep coming back. I'm due for another reread soon.