Why am I doing a meme when I have other stuff to post? *g*

[izhilzha]

Stolen from kerravonsen, kalquessa, and others:

Fannish friends! Languishing in your archive are posts of great justice and loveliness - meta, fic, icons, random babblings that you suspect may have been written by the LJ fairy while you were sleeping. Some of your current flist may never have seen them. Some might be horribly embarrassing to you now. But don't be shy

Comments

[eldritchhobbit]

This is such a great idea! Thanks for your post.

By the way, I particularly appreciated your point re: canon and fic:
If you like watching show canon, then why ignore it?
If you don’t like show canon, why the heck are you writing in this fandom?/i>

Well said indeed. I've wondered this myself. Not to knock thoughtful AUs that extrapolate new ideas from specific launching points in canon, but I do sometimes wonder why some writers identify themselves as part of a given universe when they wish to jettison everything within it. Very thought-provoking stuff.

[izhilzha]

Well, you're welcome! I kind of hope you do this meme; you tend to have rather interesting posts, but I haven't had you friended for all that long, so there's probably stuff in your archives I have no idea about. :-)

Not to knock thoughtful AUs that extrapolate new ideas from specific launching points in canon, but I do sometimes wonder why some writers identify themselves as part of a given universe when they wish to jettison everything within it.

Exactly! I can sort of get why they might want to "play with" a specific idea but put their own twist on it (the Sentinel and Guide relationship in The Sentinel, for example), but it's the identification with the thing they dislike enough to destroy that I just. Don't. Get.

[eldritchhobbit]

Thanks! I just did (though I went a bit overboard, because I was having so much fun. Wow, I didn't realize I'd been on LJ as long as I have)!

I'm thoroughly enjoying your posts, by the way. :)

[izhilzha]

Okay, you have some really interesting links there. I know how I'm going to spend part of my lunch break.

And thank you--it's always neat to know that somebody Cool likes reading my posts. ;-) (I still think it's kind of funny that I found you online through John Granger's site rather than through anything on LJ, and now I keep spotting you on journals I frequent, like dodger_winslow's.)