coming around full circle

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Ten years ago, there was this show that I loved called The Magnificent Seven. A year ago, I talked about it some. Wistful, as always, when I think about that show and its fandom. I always regretted leaving, though leaving seems to imply an intentionality that I didn't really have at the time. But I always regret it, though I never made any effort

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These people weren't there. I don't mean that as some kind of an insult; that is a fact. They were not there when those pieces of fanon were being developed. I was there, and I remember. It's a missing context thing. I feel incredibly at home when I read Mag7 fics of a certain era, because I recognize the context of where these things came from. In a way, I was reading more than just a story. I was experiencing the story along with the context that gave rise to that fic.I don't know Mag7 (yet), but this is something that seems SO TRUE for me for other fandoms. It's the difference between reading a fic, and reading a fic in the context of its fandom. In some ways, it's like wrestling. You can read a damn good fic about an event that happened five years ago by someone who's been in the fandom for a couple of years (not a newbie) and heard about it second-hand or has watched it since. Or you can read a damn good fic about an event that happened five years ago by someone who was there when it happened and remembers the fandom

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OMG Paris/Kim icon! Wow, that takes me back. *nostalgic*

And yes, that absolutely makes sense. You definitely see it in wrestling, where you can tell the people who were there when the stuff happened and wrote fic out of it, whether it was at the moment or years later, versus the people who wrote it based on knowing about the events or building it on somebody else's fic. It's more obvious with the Kliq stuff, with the long history and its popularity with writers.

But of course, there's always the difference between wrestling and every other fandom as wrestling has the neverending open canon, so you're always moving further away.

Ooh, are you writing something for Enterprise? What what what?

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OMG Paris/Kim icon! Wow, that takes me back. *nostalgic*

<3 I love them. And EVERY TIME I rewatch "The Chute" (thanks to Spike TV, who show something like 3 eps a day during the week), I go all flail again. It's like a can of spray-on Instant Ship Repair.

But of course, there's always the difference between wrestling and every other fandom as wrestling has the neverending open canon, so you're always moving further away.

Yes. *facepalm* Sometimes that's good, because there are 17 different versions of people to toy with, but sometimes it's frustrating, when you're writing someone's in-front-of-the-curtain character but using backstage details and having the universe as a work, not a shoot, and. And and and. No wonder it used to make us all pull our hair out at intervals. So much to consider.

Ooh, are you writing something for Enterprise? What what what?I'm trying to! I had a couple of years of not-really-writing due to being so brain-fuzzed on meds, then a whirlwind year of college, and now that I'm back to having a more

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I forgot an italics tag. *proud*