I'm glad you're around in fandom. You're the kind of person that makes the collective fandom experience worth it, you know? Thanks, Cassie. And I do know, because right back at you. I kinda wish I knew what to do with a comic book so that I had a clue what you're talking about these days. But alas, I am over here with my melodramas about gay porn and plastic surgery. ;) You're still one of the people I feel like I connect the most with in fandom. We have different interests and preferences, but so much in common academically and you made me look at characters fannishly that I might not have otherwise. The collective fandom experience really has kept me sane in a lot of ways, I think. Yes, there is wank, and yes it is weird and crazy and downright SCARY. No, I don't like everyone I meet through fandom. The internet is a large and frightening place. All the same, the internet is full of people who think like I do. I'm not really
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Damn! And here I thought I had people fooled. ;) Well, not us sharp ones *g*
I wish I watched one of your other shows so I could relate to what you were talking about! I guess it's an interests growing and changing thing, but still, I think it works out. I definitely agree about connecting - you've done given me characters to look at in a new light, too, and constantly. I love that we approach academics in similar, but not identical ways, and it makes it so fun sharing ideas and talking meta and so on.
The internet *is* a large and frightening place - that's why I'm glad there's a redbrickrose around!
Fandom *rocks*. It's amazing knowing people who think and feel the same way I do. It validates me, just like you said. I recently met some actual LJ fangirls in real life here at my college (omg I know.. so cool) and it's just made my life so much happier, knowing I have someone to share the squee with. Fandom rocks, and so does the internet! Alllll praise the internet! *loves* This was a cool.... i dont know, entry, very interesting hon :) I liked the X-Files too but I was never that crazy fangirlish about it. My ride into fandom really came with Buffy. I think my reaction has been the reverse to yours though... I mean, I would be into shows, but into them meant basically watching them, maybe writing some silly fic, reading some online (I LOVED reading X-files fic. There was this one really long one that was post-invasion and Mulder/Scully and they adopted Krycek's daughter and had two children of their own and all the gang was living in this little village and it was AMAZING) but I was never scary about it. Now that I'm in fandom, I
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See, I missed the boat on all the XF fic, which is too bad and I wouldn't know where to look for it now. There were some people who wrote Krycek/Marita that I used to read, but that was about it.
It doesn't boil inside me all waiting to burst out I think that was key, and nowhere to burst to? Makes me crazy. I never used to be multi-fannish it was always one thing at a time. Dark Shadows and Anne Rice actually came before XF, but since I had no access to anything resembling fandom at all at that point I didn't even mention those here. I've always had some kind of fannish obsession, never been without one. When I was four it was She-Ra, seriously. Now I'm very multi fannish and that dilutes it somewhat. I think I really needed the outlet, and yes, so, so good to have someone to share the squee with. ;)
Oh for X-Files fanfic, all you need to do is go to krycek.gossamer.org. It's a MASSIVE database of all X-files fanfic. Seriously massive. It would take years to read everything they've got in there, and it's all arranged very well, so you can easily find what you want.
A more specific rec is that fic I was talking about, the post-colonization one... I couldn't remember the title, so I went to Gossamer and on a whim I went to the recent updates page, and it was the FIRST one on the page!! It was craaaazy. And awesome. It's still being updated, it's got 50 parts now! Wow. I recommend it a lot. Although, I read it a few years ago so I can't guarantee that the writing style would live up to my standards now. It should be good though. Here's the website where the whole series is archived: http://www.donnas-stories.com/ Scroll down and click on Series - After the Future.
Hee. Thanks for the rec. I do remember Gossamer, actually, now that I'm thinking about it, but years in fandom have taught me to be wary of auto-upload archives - that's where the badfic lives. Blondie's Ratcave was the one I used to go to for Krycek/Marita shippers (who called themselves skampers, since in XF fandom a 'shipper' was by definition Mulder/Scully. Oh, times have changed). Of course, there's good stuff on the archives too, if you know where to look. Mulder and Scully raising Krycek's daughter . . . interesting. I might have to check that out. ;)
That's interesting. My show of all shows is BtVS, but I have a weird relationship with the fandom. I saw the first ep, the first two hour special, and was lurking on the first posting board. BtVS wasn't my first fandom, but it did teach me how to look at layers, and at how to tell a story. I touched base with BtVS fandom occassionally, but it wasn't my fandom. I'm willing to discuss BtVS with nearly anyone, even to hear it come under heavy cricitism, and I love the meta. This was the show that taught me about meta. But the show feels personal. Pretty much everyone knows I like BtVS, and I will occassionally talk about it, but BtVS just feels too personal for fanfic, for shipper wars, for fandom politics, for the stuff that fandom brings
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Pretty much everyone knows I like BtVS, and I will occassionally talk about it, but BtVS just feels too personal for fanfic, for shipper wars, for fandom politics, for the stuff that fandom brings.
It's interesting that you say that. Before XF,I was really into Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. (pre The Vampire Armand), but I never went near the fandom. Even when I started lurking in XF, I didn't even look for fandom. To this day, despite the current mocking of Anne Rice and the most recent novels, I have this gut reaction that some things are sacred and Lestat is one of those things. It doesn't make sense logically, but the books were just so influential to me at a really key time that they were a really, really personal experience. In contrast to that, I think the things I have been actively fannish about are those that I needed to to talk out and share my reactions to or understand other's reactions
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I get what you mean about some things needing to be shared. I started watching QaF with a bunch of friends, and their commentary and snark made it an enjoyable experience, and I looked for more of that online. I expected to just be a casual fan of HP, but it's become a shared experience, which is kind of strange in itself.
I have no idea how I used to live without a computer, either. I mean, I borrowed them and used public terminals. I also remember when I only used to check my email and browse websites. Now it's hard to do one thing on the computer, without visiting 10 different sites.
I was a scary XF, MSR fangirl, too. I dearly wish that they'd issue a reasonably priced version of the DVDs, so that I can rewatch now that my focus isn't so bound up in obsessive 'OMG, make them kiss!'. The intensity of that *is* fun, and the shippiness wasn't the only thing that made me obsess about the show, but it might be interesting to experience it in a different way.
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I'm glad you're around in fandom. You're the kind of person that makes the collective fandom experience worth it, you know?
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Damn! And here I thought I had people fooled. ;)
I'm glad you're around in fandom. You're the kind of person that makes the collective fandom experience worth it, you know? Thanks, Cassie. And I do know, because right back at you. I kinda wish I knew what to do with a comic book so that I had a clue what you're talking about these days. But alas, I am over here with my melodramas about gay porn and plastic surgery. ;) You're still one of the people I feel like I connect the most with in fandom. We have different interests and preferences, but so much in common academically and you made me look at characters fannishly that I might not have otherwise. The collective fandom experience really has kept me sane in a lot of ways, I think. Yes, there is wank, and yes it is weird and crazy and downright SCARY. No, I don't like everyone I meet through fandom. The internet is a large and frightening place. All the same, the internet is full of people who think like I do. I'm not really ( ... )
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Well, not us sharp ones *g*
I wish I watched one of your other shows so I could relate to what you were talking about! I guess it's an interests growing and changing thing, but still, I think it works out. I definitely agree about connecting - you've done given me characters to look at in a new light, too, and constantly. I love that we approach academics in similar, but not identical ways, and it makes it so fun sharing ideas and talking meta and so on.
The internet *is* a large and frightening place - that's why I'm glad there's a redbrickrose around!
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It doesn't boil inside me all waiting to burst out
I think that was key, and nowhere to burst to? Makes me crazy. I never used to be multi-fannish it was always one thing at a time. Dark Shadows and Anne Rice actually came before XF, but since I had no access to anything resembling fandom at all at that point I didn't even mention those here. I've always had some kind of fannish obsession, never been without one. When I was four it was She-Ra, seriously. Now I'm very multi fannish and that dilutes it somewhat. I think I really needed the outlet, and yes, so, so good to have someone to share the squee with. ;)
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A more specific rec is that fic I was talking about, the post-colonization one... I couldn't remember the title, so I went to Gossamer and on a whim I went to the recent updates page, and it was the FIRST one on the page!! It was craaaazy. And awesome. It's still being updated, it's got 50 parts now! Wow. I recommend it a lot. Although, I read it a few years ago so I can't guarantee that the writing style would live up to my standards now. It should be good though. Here's the website where the whole series is archived: http://www.donnas-stories.com/ Scroll down and click on Series - After the Future.
Have fun! If you decide to go lookin, that is ^_^
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It's interesting that you say that. Before XF,I was really into Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. (pre The Vampire Armand), but I never went near the fandom. Even when I started lurking in XF, I didn't even look for fandom. To this day, despite the current mocking of Anne Rice and the most recent novels, I have this gut reaction that some things are sacred and Lestat is one of those things. It doesn't make sense logically, but the books were just so influential to me at a really key time that they were a really, really personal experience. In contrast to that, I think the things I have been actively fannish about are those that I needed to to talk out and share my reactions to or understand other's reactions ( ... )
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I have no idea how I used to live without a computer, either. I mean, I borrowed them and used public terminals. I also remember when I only used to check my email and browse websites. Now it's hard to do one thing on the computer, without visiting 10 different sites.
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