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quigonejinnA friend of mine did the "100 Things About Me" meme, then went back two years later with a commentary on how she had changed or not
I figured that it could be interesting to do the
25. I invest in fandoms primarily as a writer. Sometimes, I'm a media provider.
24. My primary fandom is: Horatio Hornblower.
23. Fandoms that I write in occasionally: Star Wars, Harry Potter (recently resurrected!), Supernatural
22. Fandoms that I write in when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
babel tells me to: Deep Space 9, Torchwood, Rome
21. Canon that I enjoy, but not really in a writing way: Rome, Deadwood, Doctor Who, The Wire
20. Canon that I wish I could work with more fluently: Torchwood, James Herriot, Sherlock Holmes, Sandbaggers, Swordspoint
19. Canon that I feel most comfortable working: Star Wars, hands down. It helps to be interested in only a miniscule portion of the canon (The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith) and, additionally, where you can totally make shit up for dramatic effect.
18. I wish I could do challenges. I'm always tempted to sign up for them, but I'm never, ever, ever satisfied with the results, so I've imposed an indefinite moratorium on signing up for them.
17. Beta readers are for people who are a little more sane about writing than I am.
16. So is using Microsoft Word for fic. Everything I write is composed in LJ's web update window.
15. I love newsletters. I heart newsletters. Fandom without all that messy personal junk! Hurray! Canon and thinking about canon are what makes fandom worthwhile, not all this social connections and world unity and changing the world with sexual healing bullshit.
14. The niftiest thing to happen to fandom in the past few years has got to be the multimedia story-telling projects.
13. I kind of love totally inappropriate music for my pairings. Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes" is still my song for Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan. "Sugar Daddy" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch is perfect for Jack/Ianto. And OK. I kind of like Missy Elliott and Method Man for HH/WB. STFU. You know that Bush makes Hornblower feel crunk. (OK, so I also like "Gold Lion" and "Cheated Hearts" by the YYY's for them. And Hornblower is "Imitosis" by Bird.)
12. Sometimes, I'm not sure how I feel about Livejournal. It's weird thinking about fandom in the day before it was based on LJ, but I remember mailing lists. And bulletin boards. And newsgroups. Using a blogging platform as a fandom vehicle means fuller fandom immersion -- it used to be that only your e-mail address showed. If you went to IRC chats, then your nick showed.
Livejournal-style fandoming is a whole psyche experience to a much greater extent. It's much harder to have cults of BNFery when the fangirling takes place in private. And I kind of have a love-hate relationship with Fandom Wank.
11. I got my start in Star Trek: Voyager in 1995 or so, but didn't really make my bones in fandom until Harry Potter in 2002.
10. Making my bones in Harry Potter fandom taught me that . . . by and large, I don't want to be made. Fandom is composed of people. Dumb people. People I can't kill for having stupid opinions. >:|
9. Perhaps you sense why I tend to hide in a little cave with dear friends on the outside who bring news and an occasional bowl of black porridge.
8. Ellipses suck. I don't care if real world conversations have them. I don't care if my loathing is irrational. They are ugly. They are rarely necessary.
7. I have no desire to become a professional writer. Ever.
6. Yes, I still hate everything I write two weeks after I write it. It takes me a year to think of the damn thing without blushing. Two years out, maybe I can have the AHHHHH PAINNNNNNN reaction. Three or four years, I've probably forgotten, so it doesn't hurt anymore.
For future reference, this is the last fic I wrote.
5. Someday, I'll make a fanvid.
4. I come from champion grudge-holders. My mother ribboned in grudge-holding in her 1953 AKC class, and my father was Fuck You Verymuch out of Cross Me Once, sired by Die Slowly Motherfucker. I specialize in stony, unflinching hatred that nobody cares about.
3. Two problem spots in my writing: achieving consistent and tone and deepening characterizations. Subsidiary improvement: ROOT OUT THOSE FUCKING HELPING VERBS.
2. Typical major fandom arch: falling in love with canon, binging of 65% of available canon, taking a break from it, thinking about it for 2x as long as it took me ot go through the canon that I did, writing fic intensely for six months, then dribbles and drabbles for a year and a half. A big multimedia project, and three years later, I'm almost entirely out. And I still haven't finished the other 35% of canon.
1. It's hard to think of life without fandom, but it's got to end someday, doesn't it? Will I even be around in two years?
I figured that it could be interesting to do the
25. I invest in fandoms primarily as a writer. Sometimes, I'm a media provider.
24. My primary fandom is: Horatio Hornblower.
23. Fandoms that I write in occasionally: Star Wars, Harry Potter (recently resurrected!), Supernatural
22. Fandoms that I write in when
babel tells me to: Deep Space 9, Torchwood, Rome21. Canon that I enjoy, but not really in a writing way: Rome, Deadwood, Doctor Who, The Wire
20. Canon that I wish I could work with more fluently: Torchwood, James Herriot, Sherlock Holmes, Sandbaggers, Swordspoint
19. Canon that I feel most comfortable working: Star Wars, hands down. It helps to be interested in only a miniscule portion of the canon (The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith) and, additionally, where you can totally make shit up for dramatic effect.
18. I wish I could do challenges. I'm always tempted to sign up for them, but I'm never, ever, ever satisfied with the results, so I've imposed an indefinite moratorium on signing up for them.
17. Beta readers are for people who are a little more sane about writing than I am.
16. So is using Microsoft Word for fic. Everything I write is composed in LJ's web update window.
15. I love newsletters. I heart newsletters. Fandom without all that messy personal junk! Hurray! Canon and thinking about canon are what makes fandom worthwhile, not all this social connections and world unity and changing the world with sexual healing bullshit.
14. The niftiest thing to happen to fandom in the past few years has got to be the multimedia story-telling projects.
13. I kind of love totally inappropriate music for my pairings. Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes" is still my song for Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan. "Sugar Daddy" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch is perfect for Jack/Ianto. And OK. I kind of like Missy Elliott and Method Man for HH/WB. STFU. You know that Bush makes Hornblower feel crunk. (OK, so I also like "Gold Lion" and "Cheated Hearts" by the YYY's for them. And Hornblower is "Imitosis" by Bird.)
12. Sometimes, I'm not sure how I feel about Livejournal. It's weird thinking about fandom in the day before it was based on LJ, but I remember mailing lists. And bulletin boards. And newsgroups. Using a blogging platform as a fandom vehicle means fuller fandom immersion -- it used to be that only your e-mail address showed. If you went to IRC chats, then your nick showed.
Livejournal-style fandoming is a whole psyche experience to a much greater extent. It's much harder to have cults of BNFery when the fangirling takes place in private. And I kind of have a love-hate relationship with Fandom Wank.
11. I got my start in Star Trek: Voyager in 1995 or so, but didn't really make my bones in fandom until Harry Potter in 2002.
10. Making my bones in Harry Potter fandom taught me that . . . by and large, I don't want to be made. Fandom is composed of people. Dumb people. People I can't kill for having stupid opinions. >:|
9. Perhaps you sense why I tend to hide in a little cave with dear friends on the outside who bring news and an occasional bowl of black porridge.
8. Ellipses suck. I don't care if real world conversations have them. I don't care if my loathing is irrational. They are ugly. They are rarely necessary.
7. I have no desire to become a professional writer. Ever.
6. Yes, I still hate everything I write two weeks after I write it. It takes me a year to think of the damn thing without blushing. Two years out, maybe I can have the AHHHHH PAINNNNNNN reaction. Three or four years, I've probably forgotten, so it doesn't hurt anymore.
For future reference, this is the last fic I wrote.
5. Someday, I'll make a fanvid.
4. I come from champion grudge-holders. My mother ribboned in grudge-holding in her 1953 AKC class, and my father was Fuck You Verymuch out of Cross Me Once, sired by Die Slowly Motherfucker. I specialize in stony, unflinching hatred that nobody cares about.
3. Two problem spots in my writing: achieving consistent and tone and deepening characterizations. Subsidiary improvement: ROOT OUT THOSE FUCKING HELPING VERBS.
2. Typical major fandom arch: falling in love with canon, binging of 65% of available canon, taking a break from it, thinking about it for 2x as long as it took me ot go through the canon that I did, writing fic intensely for six months, then dribbles and drabbles for a year and a half. A big multimedia project, and three years later, I'm almost entirely out. And I still haven't finished the other 35% of canon.
1. It's hard to think of life without fandom, but it's got to end someday, doesn't it? Will I even be around in two years?
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Date: 2007-06-09 11:23 pm (UTC)*loves*
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Date: 2007-06-10 09:08 pm (UTC)I was also thinking about the post where you talk about Barbara stepping out on Hornblower, and mmm, I'm really starting to enjoy the idea of Barbara - Maturin interaction. I don't know if it would necessarily go to sexx0r, but they've got that politics angle in common. And I've got to wonder what Maturin would make of the Babysnatcher.
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Date: 2007-06-10 10:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-10 04:02 am (UTC)That is all.
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Date: 2007-06-10 09:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-11 12:16 am (UTC)What are helping verbs?
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Date: 2007-06-15 05:08 pm (UTC)And yeah. There was a period where I thought that dashes were too crutch-y and should be axed out, but I've come around, in part because of CS Forester. He uses them so effectively, OMG.
I am trying to persuade my deeply frugal sister to splurge and buy the first season of Supernatural.
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Date: 2007-06-15 05:38 am (UTC)08. I used to hate ellipses too. But then I got back into animanga, and I realize, now I use them like crazy when I am half-assedly rping. Because it's the only way I can achieve, in a really quick conversation, to say "this is blowing my mind up with wtf and causing a nuclear winter of wtf in ways i just cannot deal". reference:
Alec: *in Bush's kitchen drinking beer*
Bush: ......................
14. THe other day I was listening to Justin Timberlake. And then I had to come back and reread this story. Basically I hate you. But not really.
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Date: 2007-06-15 06:54 am (UTC)08. I have nothing against ellipses as, like, an expressive form in crack universes.
No, seriously. I don't. (I still can't believe we spun that much crack. "And then Ender met Shinji!" And then Barbara had a welcoming party for Bruce Wayne! And then Alec had to be bribed with a ride in Bush's near-cherry roadster!
Also, I decided that when Richard went to school to walk Alec home, he should see Kamui. And be like "..." in the inimitably Richard way.)
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Date: 2007-10-23 12:11 pm (UTC)But now I do, and OMG <333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
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Date: 2007-07-10 07:06 am (UTC)10. Making my bones in Harry Potter fandom taught me that . . . by and large, I don't want to be made. Fandom is composed of people. Dumb people. People I can't kill for having stupid opinions. >:|
I never made it big in the HP fandom, but I think I did pretty well in SW, and FUCK, I HATE THEM. ALL OF THEM, RHOD. Okay, well just msot oft hem, but christ, why am I not allowed to cut off their limbs and let them burn by a lava river? >:|
8. Ellipses suck. I don't care if real world conversations have them. I don't care if my loathing is irrational. They are ugly. They are rarely necessary.
Uh. I actually agree, but I still sometimes abuse them. Don't read my TW drabbles, plz. >.>
15. I love newsletters. I heart newsletters. Fandom without all that messy personal junk! Hurray! Canon and thinking about canon are what makes fandom worthwhile, not all this social connections and world unity and changing the world with sexual healing bullshit.
AHAHAHAHA. I do think the social connections are cool, because I've got a lot of awesome people to talk to, but they are, for the most part, an impressive minority. But I want to rant so badly about slash isn't changing the world, it's not a feminist issue (either way), and that BDSM is not as life-affirming and soul-cleansing as people insist it is, BUT. That would get me wanked out of fandom. And you see how many trolsl I get when I'm NOT trying to wank. .____.
I liked reading this. I might steal it so I can have tiny, condensed wanking in my journal over OMG JAX DUSSN'T LIEK MAI OOC A/O BDSM PR0N. XD
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Date: 2007-07-10 02:30 pm (UTC)HP fandom is full of the stupid. SW fandom is so, so, so full of the stupid. And as I am afraid you have either or will soon discover, DW/TW is so full of the stupid that about 65% of the fandom deserves nothing so much as a free, all expenses paid, one way space trip to the heart of the sun. Lying by a lava river is way too good for people who complain because the title "Cyberwoman" and "They Kept Killing Suzie" are SPOILERY.
WHAT.
And GOD. I HATE BDSM IN SW FANDOM. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES FOR ME TO NOT LIKE FIC IN WHICH PEOPLE GET TIED UP AND THERE IS SEXX0R? LET ME TELL YOU. A LOT. 052342394 SUCKY SLAVE FICS A LOT.
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Date: 2007-07-11 12:41 am (UTC)HP fandom is full of stupid; it just looks like more because there's so many fucking people. But SW is jam packed with complete twunts with retarded sentiments even Ewoks couldn't comprehend. And I'm starting to learn what you and dilly are saying about the DW/TW fandom. Holy fuck, I'm just writing my fic and staying in my corner, because there is nothing more annoying than this fandom right now. And of course it'd be a fandom I'm interested in. I always wind up in the crazy fandoms. >:/
I, TOO, HATE BDSM, IN ALL FANDOMS ACTUALLY, WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS. Yes, that is what fandom has done to me. It has destroyed any chance of me sharing their kinks. XD
this thread will now be titled: jax and rhod hate everybody.
Date: 2007-07-11 05:41 am (UTC)TRUE STORY.
God, I hate the travesty of mockery on that thread. God, I hate DW/TW fandom. God, I hate dumb people. GOD, i am a ranty, cranky bitch. I do not know how I have survived this long without melting into a pile of my own hate.
Here, have a change of pace: I do not know how much Torchwood reading you are doing, but Randomalia's del.icio,us links are the only ones I trust for Torchwood fic. You might esp. like the fanvid of Harkness that is, I think, the third link down.
Re: this thread will now be titled: jax and rhod hate everybody.
Date: 2007-07-12 05:26 am (UTC)God, I hate the travesty of mockery on that thread. God, I hate DW/TW fandom. God, I hate dumb people. GOD, i am a ranty, cranky bitch. I do not know how I have survived this long without melting into a pile of my own hate.
I feel the same way lately. I want to mail anthrax to LP and her bitchy, wannabe-elitist circle. I want to cut off the hands of that Anakin/Padme grudgewanker and her fake "feminist" issues. I want to infect the woman who kept spamming me for an entire night with her retarded opinions on Anakin Skywalker with leprosy. I want to take all the idiot DW/TW fans on F_W and put them on a train bound for the Seventh Circle of Hell. I'm reserving the Fith Circle for the SW fandom right now. I have no idea why I hate so much over such petty little things, but I do it real life, too. Some girl who insists she was a Southern Baptist and was horrified to learn I'm an Atheist with Eastern leanings insisted after a documentary onr eincarnation, that those children with memories of past lives are possesses by demons. I literally laughed in her face and walked away. I'm sending her to the Sixth Circle of Hell.
Let's face it, we would make awful Jedi. XD
I think Dilly gave me Randomalia's links to check out, and I'll be doing that this weekend or next. I was thinking about friending Randomalia, but I don't know her well enough to know whether she'd like that or could even tolerate me. XD
Re: this thread will now be titled: jax and rhod hate everybody.
Date: 2007-07-12 05:50 am (UTC)Mmm, figuring out what circle of hell to send people we loathe = fun. I have been disconnected from fandom so long since I basically let Dilly have all the hassle, and I just get links from her, but I think I can work up the rage. Certain people from HP. The retard who has the nerve to call me a BNF brown noser (which OK, I used to be, but she is NAMEDROPPING HER FUCKING GIRLFRIEND ALL OVER THE PLACE).
And. There is this one specific bitch in Hornblower fandom who runs the biggest website for it on the Internet, but is just one of the motherfucking dumbest, snottiest twats I have ever had the displeasure of being acquainted with. Thanks for trying to be cool with your so-called insider access, cuntwipe. It would probably help if we cared -- or if you had, after forty-some years on this planet, managed to figure out how to use the space between your ears.
I don't know what circle she and her braindead crew would go into, though. (What, this novel has a guy feeling prickly while watching another guy take a naked shower? How could that possibly be gay?) Because, like. What punishment should they receive? What are you doing to the Miss KINSEY, MOTHERFUCKER? On the one hand, while they'd probably hate to watch happy, meaningful, loving romantic interactions between guys for the rest of eternity, I DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY DESERVE THAT.
There is also a special hell for people who regularly post giant, uncut pictures of themselves. XD
Re: this thread will now be titled: jax and rhod hate everybody.
Date: 2007-07-12 12:58 pm (UTC)Holy fuck, the The Divine Comedy IS SO USEFUL FOR FANDOM. Useless for real life, but hey, Dante should be proud! And fuck certain HP people all to hell. Those people pack so much sand in their vaginas that the Middle East is starting to run low. >:|
Ahahaha, dumb, snotty twats? Does this Hornblower fan also run TheForce.Net's fanfiction place and SagaJournal? BECAUSE SHE SOUNDS REALLY FAMILIAR. Why do all the dumb snotty twats group together like that? But then, how do hateful little bitches like us find each other? MYSTERIES. XD
According to my fannish interpretation of The Divine Comedy, these twats get to go to The Eighth Circle of Hell. Snotty idiots always go there. Specifically into Bolgia 6, where the hypocrites go. But instead of wearing gilded lead cloaks, I'm going to make them wear cloaks made of shit (to represent the shit they hold in high esteem) that demons periodically set on fire. And then, just to rub it in, gay people will show up and laugh at them every so often. :D As for the twunty Miss KINSEY, MOTHERFUCKER? troll, I'm going to send her there, too, but before that, I want to have her hands cut off, so she can't type the disease-ridden bacteria salad that splats out of that void inside her pointy little head. I also
want all these fuckers to wear tinfoil hats, SO WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE WHEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET, SO WE CAN NEATLY CROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE AND POINT AND LAUGH FROM A SAFE DISTANCE.
(PS: Also, will respond to your email tonight, after school. :))
AHAHAHAHAAHA. I'm also creating a special hell for all the teenagers who whine about how awful their life is when their parents get upset at them for some stupid shit they did, when previous posts include them talking about their iPods, and their laptops, and their 39825729834 game consoles, and their trips to foreign countries for vacations. I SEE THAT YOU'RE CLEARLY SUFFERING THERE.