Poll #3: Other Fandoms

[lettered]

Hey! So, I have a multi-fandom poll! Take it!

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[lettered]

I remember thinking that show sounded really interesting when it came out. Which is funny because I thought it came out recently and I still had a chance to watch it, and it turns out it's on its 4th season? WHERE DID THE LAST 3 YEARS OF MY LIFE GO? Anywho, thanks for the rec!

[a2zmom]

random:

House is great completely because of Hugh Laurie. He actually broke a very ill teenage girl's finger in oner episode because he didn't like her! And you still don't completely hate the character. If you'd like to get caught on the show, I designed a poll which lists every major plot ever used on the show.

SPN is completely brainless. I enjoy its take on American myths and legends but there is nothing deep about the show. Two wobies run around killing monsters. It's Buffy minus the brillance. There is some good fic out there, although I read very little of it.

I read HP when a new book comes out and then I never think about it again. Except when the wank explodes.

LotR is a move/book about mythic archtypes. Which was completely appropriate for the story. But who wants to read about cardboard characters?

There are not enough naked rugby players.

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I'm just not sure I would find House lovable. Did I tell you about the only 5 minutes of it I've ever seen? House was watching a horse race on tv (I assume he had money on it). A girl next to him started seizuring--collapsed on the floor, frothing at the mouth or something. Everyone around was trying to help her, telling others to go get a doctor. And of course, you must know the moral of this story, House was just standing there watching his race. And telling everyone who was helping the girl they were doing the wrong things without giving an ounce of help

[my_daroga]

That's the only ep of House I've seen, too! How weird is that? I was like, "Hmm, Hugh Laurie's interesting, but do we need another medical procedural?" My answer was "no," but I've been outvoted by my flist. (and those frickin' CAPSLOCKERS are da bomb)

And you, a2zmom, are awesome.

[lettered]

I only saw the first 10 minutes of that ep, but yeah--weird!

I never got medical procedurals. The only medical show I was the least bit interested in was Doogie Houser. And come on, I was like, 7.

a2z is the awesomest of awesome.

[redbrickrose]

I love being multifannish, but it does mean that sometimes things like HP are tempting . . . and that's never good because it's so huge and wanky and terrifying. All our base are belong to them, indeed.

Supernatural is crack, but I don't really think I would watch it without the fandom. I kind of like to watch the show and the fandom in conjunction with each other because I like watching the fannish response to it. With SPN, it's almost like fandom as a whole decided it would be the shiny new thing almost before it ever aired. I don't think I'll ever be really fannish about SPN in and of itself the way I've been about other things because it's not crazy-making for me on it's own.

And I have to rec Farscape, which is the other way around. I don't even really lurk in that fandom, but I have mad, crazy love for the show. It's an entirely different type of relationship to the source text when you're not constantly bombarded by fannish response and analysis. It's interesting. (So I guess it's not a fandom I'm reccing, really, so

[lettered]

I'm not really multi-fannish, just one fandom after another ish. I kinda played in the HP fandom in 2001, when it wasn't quite so scary, and sometimes I like to pop back--but I keep my face hidden and skirt the edges because WHOA.

femmenerd says the same thing about why she plays in SPN. I can see that. It's different, but I watch "Bones"--and have developed liking and interest in several characters not played by DB (and even a ship not involving DB)--simply because everyone else is talking about it.

I was interested in fandom recs, which yeah, is different from show recs. Lots of people may know The Sound Of Music, but how many know what a nice comfortable cozy little corner of fandom it has? Or used to have; I haven't really been involved with it in some time. But anyway, any rec for anything is welcome--lots of cool people have mad, crazy love for Farscape, and I really need to try it out!

[redbrickrose]

I would never have guessed that The Sound of Music has an active fandom; that is interesting.

As far as fandoms go, I got eaten by Wicked real person femslash a couple of weeks ago, which is strange given that I'm not that much of a RPF person most of the time. I've got nothing against it; I just don't seek it out. This, though, is strangely enthralling. It doesn't really overlap with the fandoms I habitually hang out in, so I had no idea how large and involved it is (though I should have guessed given the slashiness of the source material - it just never really occurred to me to look).

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Wicked! I haven't had a chance to see that. I'd like to read the book, though. Thanks for the heads up!

[43100]

LMAO what in the world is up with your lj-cuts?!

Btw: Jack Sparrow/Norrington? OMG HOT.

I don't watch 'SPN', but I read a nc-17 Faith/Dean fic just 'cause of the sex. I'm bad.

House = AMAZING. I would pay to get spanked by that cane.

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I? Am a loon!

I'd like to start reading PotC fic solely for the sake of Norrington.

I want to read all the Faith/Dean but just can't bring myself because I don't know Dean!

Lots've people say House is great. I really ought to give it a try.

[stoney321]

"I'd like to start reading PotC fic solely for the sake of Norrington"

I CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE THIS.

[lettered]

You can. And you're going to.

MWAHHAHAHAHA! I've been meaning to enlist your aid in this forever but just never seem to have time. I waste it writing stupid polls.

[lostakasha]

I have such never ending love for you that it hurts to type the words.

You have popped my name in a poll cherry and paid homage to my refusal to accept the reality that only 5 people on the planet will ever ready my Fed Whisperer fic and for that, I am slave to your communing vagina.

In gratitude I give you this: My favorite line that Angela will never say to Jack: "I thought we discussed this, Jack. No cock. Snatch. Say it with me, no cock..."

[lettered]

Ha! I never knew it was so exciting to be named in a poll! *loves on you back*

Fed Whisperer fic? Um, remind me?

But Angela would totally say that! Oh, but only in reference to herself. She and Brennan, yo.