*grump*

[bironic]

Dear friends: Some stuff is going on right now, and the good/neutral things are only most of the time balancing out the bad thing. Therefore I am taking license today to complain, even if about far less significant matters.

Unpopular fannish opinions, edition the first

Comments

[rubynye]

... I think I've done one of the ones on your list there. I'm sorry.

[bironic]

Eh, and if I could find the whole list, I'm sure I've done some of them too. It's a critical mass kind of thing.

(And if you have used them, a. most of them are personal pet peeves and not technically incorrect, and b. good writing like yours is worth an occasional twitch. :) )

[rubynye]

*blush* Thanks. :)

I am sorry things have been crankymaking recently, and, yeah, I looked at Inception fandom and kind of... backed away again.

I wish I had something cheerful for you. Maybe one day when I write that consensual tentacle story in the back of my head.

[bironic]

There is some consensual tentacle RPF further down, so that shall suffice in the meanwhile!

Inception fandom is a paragon of fandom acceleration: three or four months, and they've torn through a kink meme and a Big Bang, watched the major movies their darlings have been in, settled on a favorite pairing, made vids, written extensive meta, collectively turned a character into a cat...

[roga]

Wow, I seriously think I agree with every one of your opinions for all three fandoms. Including even having to catch up on the last 3 episodes of House, because I am exactly 3 episodes behind.

[bironic]

Another apt use of MFEO? I think so.

♥

I suppose many of the above should be subtitled, "but not necessarily unpopular among my LJ friends... which is part of the reason we're LJ friends."

[recrudescence]

I know a lot of people who would probably love to meet your cousin. Just sayin'.

[xenakis_]

Yes plz. :D :D :D

[anatsuno]

yus.

[bironic]

:) Fair enough. I guess he should have waited to get married until after this movie came out.

[kassrachel]

There are convincing arguments to be made for House/Cuddy and House/Wilson. Fandom means never having to choose. I find these vicious 'ship wars baffling.

What you said!

I find myself glad I'm not really in House fandom, per se -- I watch the show, I enjoy it, sometimes I read the odd bit of fic or talk about it with someone I already know, but I'm not connected with the fandom qua fandom, and I suspect I am glad of that at this moment in time.

Re: Katie/Rodney, I do absolutely adore the moment when he swoops her into his arms and kisses her (so it's Cadman driving the bus, big deal; the kiss is still hot like burning, if you ask me.) And there are things I like about Rodney/Keller. Ultimately I'm not sure they're going to wind up wanting the same things -- and I admit to a soft spot for McShep which is approximately eleven billion miles wide -- but of course that doesn't make her (or them) evil. *bafflement*

[bironic]

I love Rodney and Katie's complete inability to communicate with each other, when it's so clear they both want their relationship to work. It's too bad how it turned out, although it was inevitable, with their differences in interests and temperaments.

As for Rodney/Jennifer, I tend to look for in-canon explanations for what goes on (is that the Holmesian explanation?), but I lost the ability to justify their relationship when the show producers talked about Rodney being their self-insert and Jennifer being "the girl," when there was so little foundation for it on screen. Especially when Jennifer/Ronon would have had such chemistry!

Re: House fandom, I have enjoyed much better mental health since I cut house_wilson and the house newsletter from my flist a couple of years back. But deelaundry has taken upon herself the sacred duty of informing me of much of the wackiness still going on in those quarters, and it sounds like it's getting worse with each passing season. No, thank you!

[kassrachel]

In my head, Jennifer and Rodney break up amicably, she having realized that he's kind of obsessed with John and also that, young as she is, she's not quite ready to settle down the way he claims to be (and also, that Ronon? awfully hot, and also smart as hell.) Eventually she and Ronon and John and Rodney double-date, and Teyla shows up with the baby and rolls her eyes fondly at all of them. &hearts!

[bironic]

Oh my goodness, how hilarious and awkward would that (first) double date be? I'd read that.

[xenakis_]

re. Inception #5: That's totally my reading of the movie as well.
...which strangely does not stop me from enjoying the hell out of fics that assumes Cobb is awake ...and Arthur/Eames. And it's ok if you don't like Tom Hardy BB, I shall love him enough for the both of us :P

I am totally with you about House and SGA, though :D

[bironic]

And it's ok if you don't like Tom Hardy BB, I shall love him enough for the both of us :P

Which isn't to say that I don't still check out the pictures and so forth that you & others post... just in case one of them finally persuades me to acknowledge some attractiveness. Keep on tryin'. :D

Also -- your icon -- I have been meaning to ask. Now a mouseover answers my question about whether it was a ball pit that overflowed when the door opened. Cute! Except I always suspect it is a pile of tribbles.

[xenakis_]

Keep on tryin'
Oh, I shall. I shall. :D :D :D

My icon comes from this comic ( http://xkcd.com/150/ ), but now I really, really want a tribble version.