Fandom nostalgia
An attack of inexplicable fannish nostalgia has me in its grip.
( X-Files was my first real slash fandom, Mulder/Krycek my first OTP. )
( X-Files was my first real slash fandom, Mulder/Krycek my first OTP. )
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Krycek has a very interesting face... he can be amazingly pretty from one angle, look like a brutal thug from another, and then be something else again from a different perspective. And that fits in so well with the character that it's almost absurd. :-)
I never saw Twin Peaks either, nor many, many other US shows.
I have a confession to make: Most often, I don't watch the shows, like them and then look for the slash. I read the slash, like it and then watch the shows. :-) For me, the shows themselves almost always stay strictly secondary to the slash in importance, as well. That's how it worked with XF, too - I'd heard of it before, of course, but had never been interested in watching it before coming across M/K slash, and being intrigued by the characters' dynamic.
I'm a slash fan more than a media fan. Psst, don't tell. ;-)
I haven't really had a new fandom that's really ( ... )
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This has happened for me a couple of times, usually if I've beta'd something for a friend and I'm intrigued enough to give the show a try. But it doesn't happen very often, partly due to that 'can't be bothered with TV' thing.
One of the problems I have getting deeply invested in a fandom is lack of trust in the canon
Mm, I'm in complete agreement there. I was never into HP but quite a few friends were, and the amount of angst they suffered when things didn't pan out the way they thought, it was painful to watch. I suppose that's one of the great things about being in an RPF fandom, there's no plot arc that can jump the shark!
Hopefully, a decent-sized fandom for both of us will come along. :-) (And it'd really be cool if we could both be in one fandom!)
That would be so much fun! :D *waits for that fandom*
What's interesting for me about this is that it seems your burnout can heal fairly quickly - at least in considerably less time than ten years - when something happens to ( ... )
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Yeah, HP was a classic case, because to me it was obvious from the start that JKR just isn't a good author when it comes to plot and characterization. Her strength is in description and details, in the world-building. And that, of course, can't carry the kind of series she was writing to a satisfactory close. IMNSHO, of course...
That said, I was so elated after she'd killed off the mysterious main character that she'd announced she was going to kill off, because it turned out to be the one I had always hated. Which is, of cpourse, again something I put down to her lack of good characterization, because he was meant to be highly sympathetic - but it worked well for me, in that case. ;-)
I suppose that's one of the great things about being in an RPF fandom, there's no plot arc that can jump the shark!But so many other things can go wrong! In the sparkly dancing boys fandom ( ... )
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Then you missed out on some of the best bits of XF! Including the stupid-ass haircut (which is actually a lot less stupid-ass than the previous one... an it's surprising that a so-called enemy comments on this at all *g*). And some really explosive chemistry. And a canon m/m kiss. :-)
as for fandoms i've burned out from, i've only had two prior to my multi-fanwhoring ways
But you do feel you burned out on them, rather than just drifting gently off or losing interest? I've gradually lost interest in many fandoms that I can still read fic in, but the XF burnout is something different...
I'm glad you still read JE, though! :-)
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Yeah, well. No loss there. :-)
I was lucky in that I didn't expect much from the books, so I wasn't disappointed. But if I'd been a fan, yikes, the suckiness of the 7th book would have really hit hard.
reminiscent of an empty formerly rainbow-filled shell
I really love this image. Beautifully put!
like with HP the love and the fact that they shaped me so much are still very much there. i'm just having more fun in my new fandom atm.
That doesn't sound like a burnout to me in either case, then. :-) Which is good! This way is much more fun. You'll still be able to go back and enjoy things in your old fandoms, if there are things to enjoy. (I just started rereading some Smallville favorites. Oh, there were such excellent stories in that fandom... it'd be so sad not to be able to enjoy them anymore.)
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Although I was leaning in the direction of slash back then I was a hard core Mulder and Scully shipper all the way. I am still pissed at the show for mishandling their relationship. But I'm trying to move on. (clearly has unresolved issues ;)
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God, yes, the Mulder and Scully relationship suffered horribly in the crash-and-burn... like just about everything else that made XF fun and interesting. Honestly, they could hardly have done worse if they'd actively tried. I doubt anyone who was an XF fan doesn't have unresolved issues.
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Fandom nostalgia, though... always gets me. xD
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Of the fandoms you mention, I only know SV - and yikes, yes, they started wanking awfully at some point, didn't they. But I didn't burn out on SV, despite that and the horrible canon developments - I still love to read good CLex stories! I did stop watching the show itself in time to prevent the worst, though. *g*
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I love discussing this kind of thing - and I'm glad you're interested, too. :-) It's always so fascinating what the similarities and differences between peoples' experiences of fandom are.
But if you remember what you wanted to write yourself at any point, do let me (and possibly other readers of the thread!) know! :-)
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