At the 2005 get__together the devilish i_naiad did a popslash pimping (which included the Madison Sq Gardens version of Space Cowboy and Take That's softporn Do What You Like).
I'd been doing drag king stuff for years by then and my specialty was boyband medleys. I've always been a sucker for pop music and the cheese and melodrama of the boy stuff was superb for performing. But after naiad's pimping I realised QUITE EXACTLY HOW GAY THEY ALL WERE AND IT WAS GOOD how tame I'd been when the 'real thing' was so out there sexually. Which was. Um. Attractive. Yes. And then erilyn sent me and china_shop a whole pile of footage and BSG was on hiatus. And and and...
Then I read Wolves and Boybands Mate for Life and fell headlong down a slippery sparkly slope with nary a hand hold for desperate grasping. And lo! There was banter, and laugh out loud moments, and warped reasoning and magic realism and pretty boys and the music began to make me unbelievably happy when I heard it. DOOMED I tell you
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Ah, well, the first part's easy - I was lured in by nopseud, whom I met at a convention. She persuaded me to hand over my email address, and sent me her how-to-snare-new-people-with-popslash story recs. I read them, and asked for more. Then, I started wandering the web following links here, there and everywhere. I must have done precious little else for about six months... In the end I couldn't resist, made a LiveJournal of my own, and started writing.
As for what I'd change, I'd lure the missing writers back! I'm hugely grateful for the excellent writers who're still producing popslash, but dammit, how could so many of them *leave*? Some do come back for DWNOGA, but one story a year just isn't enough.
What's the one story in each of your fandoms that's never been written but that you're DYING TO READ???
Also (if Pen cheated, who am I to play by the rules) how long do your fandom obsessions tend to last and what usually drives/seduces you into new fandoms?
I want to read the long plotty bantery BSG story where Kara decides to find the rails again and gets promoted and knocked back down and kicks and fights and finds friendship with Roslin (who is being kicked to the ground politically but gnashes her scary teeth like a demon and gets back on her feet). And they have to deal with lots of Machiavellian stuff and the angst and woe of wanting the Adama boys but knowing how bad for them they are. And they do that together with huge amounts of black humour and self-knowingness. And then one day, over the light table they plot battles on, they just look at each other. And then they make out. And then they take it in turns to be confused. And then they have sex. Lots of it. With talking
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I know nothing about BSG. NOTHING. (Except old BSG, but that hardly counts.) Sadly, it comes on at the same time as both Dr. Who and Prison Break, and oh, woe, only one VCR. Prison Break has gone on hiatus for a spell, though, which means the odds of BSG being viewed have suddenly SPIRALED OUT OF CONTROL!!! At which point I may have something pertinent to add in response to your rather awesome sounding story wish.
And OMG YES with the Philadelphia story idea! Somebody (who isn't me) should totally write that right now! This minute! What the hell is wrong with people that they aren't glued to their keyboards tapping this out?? Also, how would you cast it? More importantly, who would Chris be???
I might just kill to read your Firefly/Popslash crossover.
It is so sad when fandom obsessions start to fade, whatever the reason. Did Buffy fandom go potty? I didn't know that. I watched the show but never got involved in the fandom, although I'm not sure why. Probably one of the few times when the show was satisfying enough on its own.
BSG is fantastic. Very dark, but fantastic. So hooray for your death spiral. Um. You know what I mean.
And somebody should totally write The Sparkly Philadelphia Story. Chris has to be C Dexter Haven of course, except there would be no rendition of High Society's 'True Love' because ew. And I think JC should be Tracy and Lance should be Mike McCaulay and Joey the Celeste Holm character. Justin is probably the cutely annoying younger sister. Not that I've thought about this. At all.
and you could always write my firefly/popslash crossover. because you do pretty banter and it would be immensely cool. basically someone has to because now I'm desperate for it
WHY IS THERE NOT FIC ON DEMAND FOR ME WHEN I HAVE A COOL IDEA? WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY? It's times like these I wish I wrote. Then I clock myself round the lughole and giggle. Because NO. Not a writer. I can beta but have no drive to write at all.
Did Buffy fandom go potty?Oh ho did Buffy fandom head bonkers-wards. There were enough nuts to give anyone anaphylactic shock. Mostly the
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Second person POV means a story is pretty much broken for me. I've waded through a couple by authors I like. But. Only under my own duress and in desperation and it pretty much guarantees that I won't re-read the fic. And I can't do the bad grammar / spelling thing.
When I started out in fandom I wouldn't read RPS *giggle* and I didn't like AUs *falls over laughing*. I'm not a fan of deep hurt, little comfort fic. But I pretty much read anything - although it did take me a while to read some of no_pseud's more out there fic - Every Dog Has It's Day was a little confronting in theory, but I really liked it. So.
Oh. Lynncest. Nu-uh, nope, ick. NO WAY.
I know you read badfic for fun - so is there anything you won't read?
I adore nopseud's brain, it contains some wonderful things that evolve into cracked out stories that shouldn't work, yet just do. Every Dog is one of my favourites. What that says about me I don't know.
But Justin loves his mom! ;)
I'll read pretty much anything, while emphasising that I see badfic and other stories in different lights. The badfic I laugh at and enjoy in that way. What I tend not to read is cross-dressing. But it's not as simple as that and I do badly at explaining how I see that genre. I love men that wear skirts, dresses, make-up, but I can't stand stories where wearing the clothes makes them girlie. I don't want to read about Chris putting on silk panties and suddenly start to simper. If he wants to wear silk panties, good for him, but I want him to be manly doing so.
Told you I don't explain it well. It's just a thing, and I have to really trust a writer if I see they've written cross-dressing.
That you know good writing? This is me justifying furiously because I really like it too. This is NOT one of the stories I tell the LWT about.
But Justin loves his mom! ;)
Now I need a bleach shower.
The cross dressing thing is interesting - I have a huge kink for genderf*ck. Love it. Love it LOVE IT. It's the overt queerness that gets me. But I do know what you mean, it bugs the hell out of me if writers use that convention to make the guy all uber-feminised - I don't like society pressure to be shaved and nail polished as an automatic indicator of womanhood. There's a story where girl-Lance gets pressured into shaving his arm pits and HATES it. That I liked. And I can buy JC going pretty damn girly? But Chris with pearly pink nail-polish NOT as a joke or something he's held down and made to do? No. No NO.
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I'd been doing drag king stuff for years by then and my specialty was boyband medleys. I've always been a sucker for pop music and the cheese and melodrama of the boy stuff was superb for performing. But after naiad's pimping I realised QUITE EXACTLY HOW GAY THEY ALL WERE AND IT WAS GOOD how tame I'd been when the 'real thing' was so out there sexually. Which was. Um. Attractive. Yes. And then erilyn sent me and china_shop a whole pile of footage and BSG was on hiatus. And and and...
Then I read Wolves and Boybands Mate for Life and fell headlong down a slippery sparkly slope with nary a hand hold for desperate grasping. And lo! There was banter, and laugh out loud moments, and warped reasoning and magic realism and pretty boys and the music began to make me unbelievably happy when I heard it. DOOMED I tell you ( ... )
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um... if you feel like it that is
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As for what I'd change, I'd lure the missing writers back! I'm hugely grateful for the excellent writers who're still producing popslash, but dammit, how could so many of them *leave*? Some do come back for DWNOGA, but one story a year just isn't enough.
Also, I'd like a reunion tour...
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Also (if Pen cheated, who am I to play by the rules) how long do your fandom obsessions tend to last and what usually drives/seduces you into new fandoms?
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And OMG YES with the Philadelphia story idea! Somebody (who isn't me) should totally write that right now! This minute! What the hell is wrong with people that they aren't glued to their keyboards tapping this out?? Also, how would you cast it? More importantly, who would Chris be???
I might just kill to read your Firefly/Popslash crossover.
It is so sad when fandom obsessions start to fade, whatever the reason. Did Buffy fandom go potty? I didn't know that. I watched the show but never got involved in the fandom, although I'm not sure why. Probably one of the few times when the show was satisfying enough on its own.
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And somebody should totally write The Sparkly Philadelphia Story. Chris has to be C Dexter Haven of course, except there would be no rendition of High Society's 'True Love' because ew. And I think JC should be Tracy and Lance should be Mike McCaulay and Joey the Celeste Holm character. Justin is probably the cutely annoying younger sister. Not that I've thought about this. At all.
and you could always write my firefly/popslash crossover. because you do pretty banter and it would be immensely cool. basically someone has to because now I'm desperate for it
WHY IS THERE NOT FIC ON DEMAND FOR ME WHEN I HAVE A COOL IDEA? WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY? It's times like these I wish I wrote. Then I clock myself round the lughole and giggle. Because NO. Not a writer. I can beta but have no drive to write at all.
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As for mine. Is there a kind of story that you won't read? It doesn't matter if your favourite writer ever wrote it, you just won't go there.
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When I started out in fandom I wouldn't read RPS *giggle* and I didn't like AUs *falls over laughing*. I'm not a fan of deep hurt, little comfort fic. But I pretty much read anything - although it did take me a while to read some of no_pseud's more out there fic - Every Dog Has It's Day was a little confronting in theory, but I really liked it. So.
Oh. Lynncest. Nu-uh, nope, ick. NO WAY.
I know you read badfic for fun - so is there anything you won't read?
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But Justin loves his mom! ;)
I'll read pretty much anything, while emphasising that I see badfic and other stories in different lights. The badfic I laugh at and enjoy in that way. What I tend not to read is cross-dressing. But it's not as simple as that and I do badly at explaining how I see that genre. I love men that wear skirts, dresses, make-up, but I can't stand stories where wearing the clothes makes them girlie. I don't want to read about Chris putting on silk panties and suddenly start to simper. If he wants to wear silk panties, good for him, but I want him to be manly doing so.
Told you I don't explain it well. It's just a thing, and I have to really trust a writer if I see they've written cross-dressing.
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That you know good writing? This is me justifying furiously because I really like it too. This is NOT one of the stories I tell the LWT about.
But Justin loves his mom! ;)
Now I need a bleach shower.
The cross dressing thing is interesting - I have a huge kink for genderf*ck. Love it. Love it LOVE IT. It's the overt queerness that gets me. But I do know what you mean, it bugs the hell out of me if writers use that convention to make the guy all uber-feminised - I don't like society pressure to be shaved and nail polished as an automatic indicator of womanhood. There's a story where girl-Lance gets pressured into shaving his arm pits and HATES it. That I liked. And I can buy JC going pretty damn girly? But Chris with pearly pink nail-polish NOT as a joke or something he's held down and made to do? No. No NO.
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