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lady_saraiOkay, so... Harry Potter fandom.
Oh, you are monstrous and huge and not a little scary. And while I may not participate much, beyond the occasional fic... I have watched you from when you were small and relegated mainly to FF.Net BEFORE the Cassie Claire debaucle. I mean, I started reading fic actively when PoA came out! I'm not even sure I know when that was without looking.
However. This is the last book. As everyone on earth who is not under a rock knows, the cover was revealed today. I have thinky thoughts on it, but my first thought was "darn it, fandom!"
Which. Was maybe not the reaction I should have had.
But I've been considering it and I think there will have to be some f-list trimming in the coming months, because I want to be unspoiled in the most unspoiled of ways. I want no rumors, no interviews, no TV specials, no nothing! Living under a ROCK kind of an existence!
Why?
Possibly because I am in denial and wanting to prolong the inevitable for as long as possible?
Possibly because with the last two books I have missed the excitement and thrill that came from having NO CLUE what I was getting into?
Possibly because I am perverse and weird.
I mean, clearly, cannot avoid everything. The EVENING NEWS spoils things all the time, dammit (I still remember finding out about the "death" in OotP from the 6 o'clock news. Grr.) but.
I'd at least like a nice shiny spoiler-labeled LJ cut, and some people don't get that, at least in comms. (Note: if you are a person who I have friended, I am not worried. Particularly if you've friended me back, as all of YOU lovely people are considerate about things like spoilers. And the declaration of new information is not something I'm going to get upset about; I don't plan to live under a rock, really. It's when people post mini-images of new book covers without cuts that bother me because what will happen when it's something bigger than that? I'm a little afraid I'll have to cut the newsletters, but we'll see.
In other news, DC fandom, why? Why have I fallen in such utter and complete, total, flailing, buy-you-a-ring-and-feed-you-chocolate LOVE with you? Why, when your canon so clearly FAILS at times and contradicts itself and I can't stand some of the writers (canon, not fandom--fandom writers are ♥) and there are so many years of canon to catch up on and I am broke so I can't even keep up with current canon?
And why do you make me so damn happy?
Perhaps most perplexing is the question of how you've changed my fannish leanings. Because I swear that there was a point when I would have searched out every gen fic EVER before looking for any other kind of story. And the idea of writing something not gen would have been a bit daunting and not something I considered for a good while.
So why do I have the urge to write GAY SEX? I mean, really. I have been fannish for years, and have friends who can prove this. Hell, I have binders from SECOND GRADE that prove it. Shut up, I so do.
Anyway, my point is that up until now, my tendency has not been to look at two characters in a text and say "oh, they're gay" unless it's CANON that they are. My tendency hasn't been to pair anyone up at all, really, except in cases where the subtext is SO THERE--Ron/Hermione, Erik/Charles, Remus/Sirius, etc--or when the ship IS canon--Scott/Jean, Bella/Edward, Harry/Ginny (I love that it's canon), Mark/Maureen, Angel/Collins, etc.
My default has always been gen, possibly because it's what I write best and possibly because there seems to be less genfic than anything with pairings.
Anyone who has been around me can ALSO tell you that when it comes to two characters being best friends, it has annoyed me when fandom automatically starts pairing them up romantically. Witness the hissy fits I've had over the RENT fandom and the insane number of Mark/Roger fics but huge LACK of Mark-and-Roger as Best Friends fics.
(Perhaps a bit contrarily, the Best-Friends-Who-Fall-In-Love pairing is one that TOTALLY does it for me. I have no idea what to make of my oddness.)
So, DC fandom, I ask you--how did you CHANGE THIS about me?! How? Seriously.
Why is it I look at Dick and Roy (and Kon and Tim, OMG) and start inserting slashes between their names and drawing pink, sparkly hearts around them? Why do I want to cover them all in band-aids and wrap them in grandma-knit-afghans and feed them hot chocolate? Then let them have sex?
Oh, DC fandom. How infatuated I am with you.
And... any good Kon-lives!or-otherwise-is-back-from-the-dead! fic out there?
It is so not fair that I should fall so in love with a character who is DEAD. ::scowls::
Oh, you are monstrous and huge and not a little scary. And while I may not participate much, beyond the occasional fic... I have watched you from when you were small and relegated mainly to FF.Net BEFORE the Cassie Claire debaucle. I mean, I started reading fic actively when PoA came out! I'm not even sure I know when that was without looking.
However. This is the last book. As everyone on earth who is not under a rock knows, the cover was revealed today. I have thinky thoughts on it, but my first thought was "darn it, fandom!"
Which. Was maybe not the reaction I should have had.
But I've been considering it and I think there will have to be some f-list trimming in the coming months, because I want to be unspoiled in the most unspoiled of ways. I want no rumors, no interviews, no TV specials, no nothing! Living under a ROCK kind of an existence!
Why?
Possibly because I am in denial and wanting to prolong the inevitable for as long as possible?
Possibly because with the last two books I have missed the excitement and thrill that came from having NO CLUE what I was getting into?
Possibly because I am perverse and weird.
I mean, clearly, cannot avoid everything. The EVENING NEWS spoils things all the time, dammit (I still remember finding out about the "death" in OotP from the 6 o'clock news. Grr.) but.
I'd at least like a nice shiny spoiler-labeled LJ cut, and some people don't get that, at least in comms. (Note: if you are a person who I have friended, I am not worried. Particularly if you've friended me back, as all of YOU lovely people are considerate about things like spoilers. And the declaration of new information is not something I'm going to get upset about; I don't plan to live under a rock, really. It's when people post mini-images of new book covers without cuts that bother me because what will happen when it's something bigger than that? I'm a little afraid I'll have to cut the newsletters, but we'll see.
In other news, DC fandom, why? Why have I fallen in such utter and complete, total, flailing, buy-you-a-ring-and-feed-you-chocolate LOVE with you? Why, when your canon so clearly FAILS at times and contradicts itself and I can't stand some of the writers (canon, not fandom--fandom writers are ♥) and there are so many years of canon to catch up on and I am broke so I can't even keep up with current canon?
And why do you make me so damn happy?
Perhaps most perplexing is the question of how you've changed my fannish leanings. Because I swear that there was a point when I would have searched out every gen fic EVER before looking for any other kind of story. And the idea of writing something not gen would have been a bit daunting and not something I considered for a good while.
So why do I have the urge to write GAY SEX? I mean, really. I have been fannish for years, and have friends who can prove this. Hell, I have binders from SECOND GRADE that prove it. Shut up, I so do.
Anyway, my point is that up until now, my tendency has not been to look at two characters in a text and say "oh, they're gay" unless it's CANON that they are. My tendency hasn't been to pair anyone up at all, really, except in cases where the subtext is SO THERE--Ron/Hermione, Erik/Charles, Remus/Sirius, etc--or when the ship IS canon--Scott/Jean, Bella/Edward, Harry/Ginny (I love that it's canon), Mark/Maureen, Angel/Collins, etc.
My default has always been gen, possibly because it's what I write best and possibly because there seems to be less genfic than anything with pairings.
Anyone who has been around me can ALSO tell you that when it comes to two characters being best friends, it has annoyed me when fandom automatically starts pairing them up romantically. Witness the hissy fits I've had over the RENT fandom and the insane number of Mark/Roger fics but huge LACK of Mark-and-Roger as Best Friends fics.
(Perhaps a bit contrarily, the Best-Friends-Who-Fall-In-Love pairing is one that TOTALLY does it for me. I have no idea what to make of my oddness.)
So, DC fandom, I ask you--how did you CHANGE THIS about me?! How? Seriously.
Why is it I look at Dick and Roy (and Kon and Tim, OMG) and start inserting slashes between their names and drawing pink, sparkly hearts around them? Why do I want to cover them all in band-aids and wrap them in grandma-knit-afghans and feed them hot chocolate? Then let them have sex?
Oh, DC fandom. How infatuated I am with you.
And... any good Kon-lives!or-otherwise-is-back-from-the-dead! fic out there?
It is so not fair that I should fall so in love with a character who is DEAD. ::scowls::
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Date: 2007-03-29 12:59 pm (UTC)I resurrected him, within the framework of current canon the week Titans 44 came out. I would not call it good...
And there are a lot of fics from me, Darkdanc3r, Yena, Greeneyelove, cero_ate, and gottaluvit123 that plain ignore the dying part.
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Date: 2007-03-29 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-29 05:29 pm (UTC)Titans Fix
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Date: 2007-03-30 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-29 05:17 pm (UTC)I so haven't come up with a way to insert Conner into Smallville by making him the Lexana Baby of Cloninsh DOOOOOOMEven with the spoilers for Half-Blood Prince, I was totally surprised by the ending because it was so ambiguous. So never fear, JKR will find a way to surprise you anyway. Or rocks will fall and veryone will die.
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Date: 2007-03-30 03:31 am (UTC)Seriously, I don't know why or how, but it MUST be your fault that I've fallen fast and hard for Kon. Conner. Whatever. SUPERBOY WHO IS DEAD! *weeps*
Fluh. I reread the issue where he dies today and I am still like... WTF? The other Superboy is apparently unfazed! Hmph. And I'm like a year behind in my pouting, but witness the pouting.
And yeah, I have no doubt she'll surprise me. I think it's more that the fandom melodrama is getting to me. Everytime something is announced, things EXPLODE, which, yes, as it should be, but also...
It's possible I am in denial over this being the LAST book and I'm hanging on for all I'm worth?
(I love the rocks falling ending, because it's a battlecry much like SUPERBOY PUNCHED REALITY! ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES! ...Except it was just Superboy.)
Meanwhile, do you realize how long we've left those boys unattended in the Bar? Good lord, poor Ron.
Totally resisting the urge to shove Tim and Kon in there, too. But they're underage even up where you live. Ahem.Still no appropriate icon, damn.
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Date: 2007-03-30 05:08 am (UTC)which is totally legal in the state jsut east of mine. And also, who said The Pub was in North America? It could be in France or Italy or Russian where there aren't age limits on drinking. Heck, it owuld be in Ireland where kids reach for a Guinness to chase down milk.no subject
Date: 2007-03-30 05:18 am (UTC)Tim is 17. Kon? Um. Well, for a long time he was stuck at 16 and couldn't age but that got fixed and I have no freaking clue. Tim was 16 when Kon died.
...wait, the internet is a marvelous thing:
KON-El (Superboy)
Age: 16 [chronologically only 2 years old] when he died
Rationale: It was established that Kon was frozen at the age of 16 during practically the whole run of SUPERBOY and YOUNG JUSTICE. Kon was 'created' from scratch after the 'death' of Superman, so he was chronologically only 2 years old. Superboy aged normally after the events of SINS OF YOUTH [1999].
...oh, comics. ♥
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Date: 2007-03-30 05:20 am (UTC)Or, he'll care, but ignore them.
And as for Tim, well, he lies to BATMAN.
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Date: 2007-03-30 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-30 05:35 am (UTC)So, yeah, they would so be doing that.
..I'm gonna need a Tim-and-Kon icon, dang it.
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Date: 2007-03-30 05:36 am (UTC)EEEE! Bat-brothers icon!
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Date: 2007-03-30 11:54 am (UTC)Dammit, I love my boys.
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Date: 2007-03-30 06:17 am (UTC)I mean, people aren't going to leave their homes? There will be posters all over the place! I just went to Amazon.com, and there the cover was, right on the front page. No spoiler warning, even! If I'd gone there looking for, say, shoes or a DVD, I totally would have seen it and NOW THE BOOK IS RUINED FOR ME.
I'm exaggerating, but I remember when the title came out and some of my flist was cutting it, "so they won't spoil those who don't want to be."
...
THE TITLE?!?!?!?!?
So. Sorry for the rant. Some of my flist is spoiler paranoid (NOT YOU, I PROMISE), and it kind of irritates me.
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Date: 2007-03-30 11:52 am (UTC)That, or I hit a very deep pocket of DENIAL! about the whole thing. As in LALALALALA FINGERS IN MY EARS THE LAST BOOK IS SO FAR AWAY LALALALA!
I swear that I am a mature adult. Really.
Stop looking at me like that!