A little fandom musing...

[puppe]

Dude, I was reading that whole mess on meyrevived's LJ, and seriously...the entire X fandom is totally insane. It's just a series. It's just a stupid little piece of fiction based on it. So what if it's not Tolstoy or Heller? It's not the end of the world (that was unintentional, I swear) or the end of the fandom. You take what you like, discard what

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[starswan]

*applauds*

Word.

And yeah, you wench, you should finish Rifferella some day because...it would be cool and I am curious and the well of ec fic is running drryyyy. :D Every fandom has it's benefits. 0=)

Yes..the X Fandom is vast and cold..like outerspace XD.

[ryutsuki]

Oh shit. I completely forgot about Rifferella 8DDDDDD;;;;;;;;;;;;

[starswan]

:o!!!

That's alright. I forgot about Underneath (a 383 fic that has been a paragraph from complete for like a year almost ^^;;) and Stark (random never continued EC blurb) and my very first EC fic Dark Passage....incomplete at like Part five or six and ...other stuff.

Wow I am a horrible member of fandom. :D XD

[ryutsuki]

Underneath! I actually remember that. Yeah, you should continue. It was pretty! I don't remember Stark, and..........you never finished Dark Passage?! Oh wow...XD

Haha, we're the terrible, uh...duo. Erin, the godly EC translator, and Elffy, the godly EC writer...the fandom was doomed as soon as we set foot in it 8D

[emudii]

You know, strangely, this was one of our more relaxed kerfluffles? *laughs* TB/X fandom is indeed notorious for being... somewhat snobby with a pinch of cranky. Embarrassingly enough, what you saw was really nothing considering our track record. *sweat* Still, no fandom is without its unique patches of unrest

[ryutsuki]

Haha, I've seen some rather petty and nasty kerfluffles, but none have been as "close" to me as Mey's. Hey, I rather like Behind Bars!

But I know what you mean about the "family" all too well. One of the fandoms I forgot to mention I was in was for Yami no Matsuei. I did the whole transition from mailing list to livejournal with them, and you're right, it really is like a family, although a lot of us have branched out from Yami. I met a ton of cool people, and a ton of total bitches. When the fandom started on Livejournal, all of us writers were oh-so-tight-and-friendly-really-*fake-smile* until I was deemed indirectly responsible for the big tear in the "fandom" (haha, us Livejournal writers) when Amet misunderstood something I had written. Heh, it was even f_w-ed. But I mentioned all that just to let you know that I know perfectly well what you mean. However, knowing all that, and being in the midst of it, I still disagree with it. Maybe it's because I quite frankly don't give a damn about the talent and effort of fandom

[emudii]

*explodes with laughter* Hey, different strokes for different folks. But as individuals, it seems that we can agree to disagree. Not that I meant to leave the impression that this fandom doesn't know how to knock itself, on ocassion--hell, I think we can both attest to that. There are just times when things get... taken a bit too personally. I can also remember a few civil wars that erupted over differences in opinion. A couple of which could have really been avoided, but ended up dividing the subfandoms against each other. Both, I watched from the front line, since it was close to everyone. In that way, it really is scary, sometimes. But I think we've all learned from that, at least, that it is better to choose one's battles a little more selectively. I think most fandoms, by now, have begun to realize that, now that we've had time to settle down.

Gosh, you've made me nostalgic. ;;

Curiously... I've only skirted Yami fandom, so I wonder if I've ever read your stuff?

[ryutsuki]

Haha, well, yes, everyone has their own views on these sorts of things. And I'm sure everyone in the fandom knows just how "crazy" they can be with it, but it's also with being on the inside all the time...you may not realize to what extent and how it looks? Or something. I actually lost track entirely of where that bit was going...

You may have? I don't know. If you want to look (oh how convenient!), I have multi-chaptered stuff that I hate at http://www.fanfiction.net/~elfasato . Also (again, the convenience!), some much-preferred one-shoty things at http://home.comcast.net/~the_suzette/fics/ .