Making your fun where you can find it

[corilannam]

A good piece of fanfiction is a rare and lovely thing to be savored and praised, but sometimes it's a piece of badfic that can really make my day.  A truly wretched story isn't so much something to read as it is a social event.  Everyone's talking about it, and you can send it to everyone you know, even people who aren't in your fandom, and say, "Hey, look at this godawful piece of fanfic!  Mock it with me!"  And with delight, they will, as long as you promise to pay for bleach afterward.

So thank you, Jane Streeter, for brightening up my day, which began with spilling a full cup of hot coffee all over my desk.

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Even without the joy of badfic, however, this would be a bright and shiny day.  Bring on the reports and powerpoint slides, douse me with coffee, get my mother on line one -- nothing is going to bother me today. 

Why?  Because it's November 16th, and the sixth season of The Amazing Race starts tonight!  9 p.m., CBS.  Watch it.  You won't be sorry.

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I'm absolutely delighted that SG-1 and Atlantis were renewed for new seasons.  I think.  I'm not quite ready to resign myself to the end of SG-1, though frankly, it might be better for my nerves.  I really need to divorce my mental fanfiction world from the canon world, because I get jumpy and nauseated every time I see the words "Stargate spoilers" anymore.

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All of you who have hundreds and hundreds of words on your Yuletide stories can just bite me.  I have research to do.  And DVDs to rewatch.  And a story in another fandom to edit.  And I'm still pretending like I'm doing nanowrimo.  All this to say that I don't have a single Yuletide word down on paper yet, and you people are making me feel seriously behind the curve here.

I do, at least, know what I'm going to write, which I suppose puts me ahead of plenty of other people.

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And in the last of this unnecessary glimpse into my day -- I'm running on less sleep than normal because I had a bizarre dream last night in which I found out that a close friend of mine from college had an LJ.  In the entry I was reading, he mentioned my LJ by name, saying that my fanfic had influenced another friend of his to come out as gay.  In the dream I couldn't tell if he thought this was a good or bad thing, and I also couldn't tell if he knew that marzilla was me. 

I woke up at around 3:30 a.m., so freaked out that I immediately got up, turned on my computer and googled him to make sure he didn't really have a blog that I could find.  Then I lay awake for a while, thinking about how weird fannish life can be.

Comments

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

All this to say that I don't have a single Yuletide word down on paper yet, and you people are making me feel seriously behind the curve here.

Oh, me either. Won't until December, I suspect. So hopefully that'll make you feel better.

[orca-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely delighted that SG-1 and Atlantis were renewed for new seasons.  I think.  I'm not quite ready to resign myself to the end of SG-1, though frankly, it might be better for my nerves.  I really need to divorce my mental fanfiction world from the canon world, because I get jumpy and nauseated every time I see the words "Stargate spoilers" anymore.

Yeah, I realized recently that this is at the core of what I feel. I think that a lot of my feelings about S9 are inextricably bound up in my anxieties about how S8 is going to play out, and stuff.

And one thing I can say about S9 -- it means that SG fandom will still be an *active* fandom, rather than one that is trying to persist past the end of the show. I know that fandoms *do* persist after a show's end, but I have never been personally involved in any of them.

I could resign myself to the end of the show (preferably, from my viewpoint, an open end), but what I don't really want to end right now is the fandom. And the show going on may help keep life in the fandom. Because I realized on thinking about it that despite the vagaries of the show in the last few seasons, a much larger part of my enjoyment is bound up in the reading of good fanfic. And I can hope that that'll keep coming, if the show's still on and feeding people's interest.

(The issue of Atlantis being the New Bright and Shiny in the SG-verse and drawing people away from SG-1 to write for it; and the issue of, if SG-1 substantially changes and new characters are introduced, of *that* drawing creative energy away from the production of stories about SG-1, are different issues, for another time.)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

I feel exactly the way you do about badfic. I mean, I've never once read a serious LOTRps story, but I *still* giggle over the Magic Orange.

-J

[greensilver.livejournal.com]

All of you who have hundreds and hundreds of words on your Yuletide stories can just bite me.

I think I could pound my palms on the keyboard and produce better fic than the crap I've written for Yuletide thus far. You're probably ahead of me just by not having written anything yet. *g*

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Ah, Jane. What fandom is she hurting these days?

[chelseafrew.livejournal.com]

C. B. S. *G*

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else! It'll probably be December for me, too. There's just too much going on, and the story needs to gel a bit more first.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, live fandoms certainly do tend to be more active than dead ones, although I personally think that Stargate fandom will endure for a long while after the show finally ends. I've been involved in several fandoms for shows that are off the air, and while discussion often fades, the fic just as often doesn't.

So it's nice to have constant new stimulation of the creative juices, and it's also nice to have a closed canon that can't mess up your story ideas. *g* I try to be philosophical about fandom shifts, and the fact that people come and go from them unpredictably, no matter what the New Shiny of the moment happens to be.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Magic Orange. Hee hee hee!

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

LOL! That would be more reassuring if I believed you. *g* The good thing about these fic challenges is that the stories tend to come together eventually, without resorting to pounding palms on the keyboard. It may be the night before, but it usually happens. At least, I'll keep telling myself that. *g*

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's still on m_a, taking out her monthly troubles on innocent bystanders. At least she provides nice bitchly bonding moments for the old-timers. *g*