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writing, painfully good fan fiction, my priorities and other related issues, but the frelling bronze age daggers won't let me.

So, instead, here's simply a link to the latest example of painfully good fan fiction that I've found:

'Thing', by Cimorene and Wax Jism. Warning: slash (R/S, cause I admit unashamedly to having become a puppyshipper): http://www.waxjism.net/pickle/stories/thing.html

(Edited to add: Just took a look at the website this story is hosted at and must confess to my total non-understanding of many slashers' fascination with boy bands and other Pretty Young Men. Not to mention the need to *slash* them. Yuck. Oh well, the story I just recced is still great.)

Current Mood: frustrated

Err... mild spoilers... but I don't know how to make an LJ cut. Anyway, not many HP fans are reading my LJ, and these spoilers aren't exactly big, IMO. Still... spoilerspace, I suppose:

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Sorry, I really have to learn how to write LJ code. I used to know how to link, but I keep forgetting how to do it, and I never found out how to cut. *sigh*

Anyway: about bullies and growing up. I would hate to be seen as a blindly forgiving Sirius apologist, but I must say that from my own experience, bullies growing up into decent people *does* happen. I was bullied at school (every bit as badly as Snape, I'd say - even including the underwear bit, sort of) and as the years went by I've seen some of the people who wouldn't let an opportunity to bully me pass become... well 'nice', for lack of a better word. I made friends with one or two of them, to a degree (we even talked about the issue), later on. So, to all the people whose comments I've read today (but who probably don't read my LJ anyway *g*) and who seem to think that nothing short of a major life changing event can change a teenage school bully: even as a mobbing victim myself, I wouldn't judge a grown-up person based on their behaviour at age 15. People can change a lot in puberty, and sometimes, maybe even quite often, they change for the better.

That's not actually the word I'm looking for, but I can't think of a better expression right now, so it will have to do.

Anyway, I'm sure you all know what I mean. Many of you have been part of it, probably several times - like myself. It's fun, in an exhausting, and sometimes exasperating kind of way. Suddenly, fandom takes precedence over Real Life, with a vengeance. You're staying up all night surfing the net for news, any news, any little bit that one might have missed. Lurking at a dozen forums, trying to glean spoilers or other kinds of info, or read reactions to something one already knows. You're in a permanent state of nervous excitement. You can't eat or work properly... It's frelling annyoing, but my self-control just isn't strong enough to fight it. It's as if a part of my brain just... quits. (I'm glad not too many RL people are reading this blog... *g*)

First time it happened to me? The Lord of the Rings wait (especially for the first movie...) - Then the cancellation of Farscape - and now, ironically, Harry Potter, book five. Ironically, because I'm *still* not really a HP fan. I'm not even really sure I want to read the book. I'm a HP fan the way I was a HL fan - head over heels for one character, but kinda lukewarm about the rest of the universe. Sure, there's parts of the books I enjoy immensely, and aspects of the universe I find intriguing, but without Sirius (and, to a lesser degree, Remus), I wouldn't *dream* of, say, reading fan fiction about it. And I still hold that there are more impressive children's books out there, books that I wish had a fandom, because I'd really *love* to read fic about them. (I've recommended them many times already, but I just feel a need to plug Michael de Larrabeiti's 'Borribles' books again...)

Nevertheless, I've been behaving like a Potterhead for about a week now, and it has interfered majorly with my studies, and my sleeping habits, and a thousand other things. Not to mention that I've been depressed (to a not too devastating, but still noticeable degree) since I found out about The Death on wednesday. Did I mention that HP - of all fandoms! - has finally turned me into a slash reader?! How's that for irony... I blame it all on the great fics out there. I didn't *want* to read them, but they kept being recommended all over the place! There, now I feel better. Well, not really, but it's nice having someone to blame. I'm not so twisted yet as to blame J.K. Rowling for making the choices she did - these are *her* books! Better blame the slashers for adding so many layers and making those characters so real that I can't help but care deeply about them. *eg*

Maybe I should start sending feedback, so that they see the ship is still in demand? Hm... but I don't *need* another active fandom!

Ah, decisions, decisions... Why So Difficult?!?

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Altan: An Bhean Udai Thall

... as hundreds of writers's shift their imaginations permanently to AU...

(The death felt rather pointless and silly, IMO, and I'm not saying this because I loved the character. Like the shades of grey though, esp. the Marauders being idiots. *g*)

Good thing we don't get to see the body, though. Makes it easier to resurrect the person for fan fiction purposes in a halfway believable way. ;-) I know it violates canon, but right now, I don't care.

Current Mood: depressed

1.) ... you can send them fan fiction about characters they have never read about and they will at least check the fics out, and maybe even read one or two, instead of deleting the mail like a RL friend might do. They may even become interested in the characters.

2.) ... if you tell them that something terrible will befall a character that you like and that they have never actually read about except in some fan fiction that you sent them, some of them will actually be shocked, instead of shrugging it off like a RL friend might do.

3.) Also, some of them will comfort you with phrases like 'Figwit lives. Haldir lives. (XY) lives.' *g*

Just felt a perfectly random need to state my gratefulness for fannish friends today. ;-)

Current Mood: calm

Well, due to my recent - slight - infatuation with Sirius Black, I went websurfing in the realms of Harry Potter fandom. During my surfing, I stumbled across some fan art, and... well, can anyone, please, explain to me why most of it seems to be in anime style? Frell, I don't want CuteAndrogynous!Sirius, I want SeriouslyUglyAndFrightening!Sirius!

Seeing the anime-isation of the Potterverse also reminded me of a phenomenon I've been noticing in fandom in general in recent years. More and more, it seems to be necessary not only to know terms like slash, filk and FIAWOL but also to know Japanese. Bishounen, yaoi, (name)-chan etc. seem to be common knowledge these days. Anime fandom related vocabulary seems to be especially prevalent in slash... I'm not a slash writer nor much of a slash reader, but I do know slash writers and readers and I'm increasingly often coming across these terms in their blogs, on their websites, and on forums and mailing lists. It can be frelling confusing, though I've managed to learn basic anime fandom Japanese now (although I'm not even an anime fan, with the exception of Hellsing). It seems to be related to age - LotR(movies) fandom and Harry Potter fandom in particular seem to have fallen victim to the anime invasion, and it seems to me that these two fandoms draw, in general, a younger fan generation than Farscape or Highlander do. Will fandom entirely be taken over by anime, I wonder? ;-)

But first: Welcome to Livejournal, selenaK. I used to know how to link to people here, but I've forgotten... Anyway, glad you found your way here. I would have sent you a code, too, if only I still had one! I've found that a blog is a nice way of keeping in touch with several people at once - instead of mailing everybody, you just post the latest exciting ;-) news from your life in your blog, and everyone you know can read it... Very convenient for lazy mailers like me! Mind you, I'm a lazy blogger, too. As you can see by the length of time between entries here...

Anyway... my biggest news today: I've been filked. How cool is that? I'm exceedingly flattered... and it's a Farscape filk, in a way, too!

So, here goes. This is sung to the tune of 'Pinky and the Brain', and the Annie mentioned in it is Annael, a friend and fellow scaper from a Tolkien board I'm at. This was written by our board bard Inferno:

They're Annie and The Hmpf!
Yes, Annie and The Hmpf!
One is a German
The other's had enough.
They're Farscape fanatics
Their show has been frelled
Uncanny!
They're Annie and The Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf
Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf
Hmpf.

Before each night is done
Their plan will be unfurled
By posting pics of Crichton
They'll take over the world.

They're Annie and The Hmpf!
Yes, Annie and The Hmpf!
Their Save 'Scape campaign
Is easy to explain.
To prove their Farscape's worth
They'll overthrow the Earth
They're Annie
They're Annie and The Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf
Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf, Hmpf!
Frell!

Heheheh...

Other news from the Farscape front: AnduraNova, Dashan and I have started a vidder collective. So far, we've done two vids together, or rather, AnduraNova has done all the hard work, and Dashan and me have offered our, uhm, advice on everything from scenes chosen to length of snippets and style and placement of cuts. We've chosen the name 'Scape Sisters' for our group because, you know, we're on a mission from Scape... Oh, and our next vid will be shippy... Scorpy/Braca shippy. *evil cackling laughter*

In other news... Real Life in the guise of university is beginning to take up time again, and I still have 30 hours to work, too, plus I'll have to do some sports this semester if I want to survive the excavation this summer... so I'll likely be very busy these next few months.

Oh, and this is for all the Harry Potter people who are reading my LJ: you will be happy to know that I have finally seen the light. In the shape of Sirius Black.
*g* I doubt I'll actively enter the fandom - I recognise an obsession when I see one, and this *isn't* one - but I really like Sirius. Like Lupin, too. I hope they're both going to reappear in volume four?

Okay. Back to dinner now. I'm hungry. Very hungry.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Maureen O'Brien: Barrayaran Roses