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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?
