tielan, posts by tag: fandom - LiveJournal

I'll admit, I burned out on the 'extended universes' of Star Wars back in the late 90s. Too many book series, some with excellent worldbuilding but a lot of them not about characters that I wanted to read about.

It's also...a lot? A lot of a lot? All from Disney? Bread and circuses? And I wonder how much of this is taking advantage of a sort of a 'relief/rush to normal' after the year of 2020.

I am pretty eager to see the Rogue Squadron movie - mostly because Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman is directing it. I am hoping we get more non-males, non-whites, and non-human characters than were in the original Rogue Squadron. (But Mirax. Oh, I want a really snarky non-white Mirax Terrik whom Corran still 100% falls for and adores! Actually, I want the movie to be about Mirax. Just call it Rogue Squadron: The Smuggler's Daughter and I'm in!)

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Frankly, don't talk to me about the Marvel TV universe. I'm still bitter about a lack of Maria Hill. My salt could supply an entire ranch's worth of cattle licks. We all know this.

Additionally, I have trouble watching TV shows anymore. Doesn't matter how good it is, or how well-recommended it comes, or even who's in it. The only way you're going to get me to watch a TV show these days is by sitting me down with someone else and some snacks and anchoring me to the seat to watch it.

I think my binge-watching days are done; I have not the patience or the time for it no more. I was discussing this with a friend in the car on the drive up to hockey on Thursday night (we didn't make it; there was a truck accident on the freeway and we would have arrived with all of 10 minutes to spare) and she said, "Well, you are doing a lot of things, T."

And I thought about it and...she's kind of right. I have a lot less brainspace given all the things I've been involved in the last dozen years. I think Season 3 of Merlin, and Season 3 of Sanctuary were the last times I watched anything through - no, wait, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to the Season 2 midpoint, circa 2015. But I joined a writing social group (that turned into more of a social group than a writing one) in 2011, started doing more quilting around 2012, bought a house in 2014, joined a local church, started working on a permaculture garden...

That's a lot of things on the brain. And I've gotten into movies since then, but not TV series.

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

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A small thing that I still find amusing is that I never thought of myself as fannish until the 2000s. And even then I'm an odd duck among my family. My mum is the kind who watches a non-procedural TV show and asks "who's that?" and "what's happening?" and "why did they do that thing?" and then spends the five minutes after the episode finishes saying "I don't understand" even after someone explains it to her. My sisters avoid anything that could suck them in, because they have lives to live (although B2 has lately started watching the DC movies and all associated things). My stepdad and stepbrothers aren't interested in fannish/geeky/nerdy things beyond a generalised public interest.

Then, a few years ago, I went to visit my father in Vietnam. Apart from visits, we haven't lived in the same household for thirty years. And I came down one morning to find him binge-watching the latest episode of Supergirl and getting really worked up about Alex's boyfriend/colleague finding out about Kara.

As it turns out, I inherited my fannishness. :)

I'm reasonably certain that 80% of people reading this were innit for the fandom and, well, I'm not doing fandom or shows or movies so much lately.

I have not even looked at the trailer for Cats. And given how everyone's responding, I don't think I will. I loved the poems, I loved the musical, but...that was a long time ago.

Sarah Bessey (author of Jesus Feminist) sent out her Field Notes (kind of a newsletter) and I read it on my phone in bed on Sunday morning. And then watched the trailer for Mulan at her "it doesn't seem to suck...yet" advocation. I am...cautiously optimistic. (They didn't make Shang white did they? Please tell me they didn't make Shang white!)

In spite of never having watched Veronica Mars I find myself kind of wanting to watch the new season. Do I have to have backwatched to get what's going on, do you think? (Wait, is it even available on the subscription platforms I have? Answer: nope. So moot point.)

So far, the bits and pieces I've seen at SDCC have piqued my interest in:

• Stumptown
• Thor (Jane Foster)
• Falcon and Winter Soldier

Whether that interest translates into anything more? Another beast entirely.

Okay, so I would have been interested in Stumptown anyway. Just from the trailers, it looks very much like it was written for my personal id - from the main character down to the fact that the main character is played by Cobie Smulders.

Haven't heard anything about hawkeye, just the graphic that people have put up from SDCC. Not sure if it's going to be about Clint or about his daughter Lila, although I'm wishing they'd go with an Asian twenty-something hard-living, hard partying, give-no-fucks Kate Bishop, and have Lila growing up/becoming in the process.

But overall, the media/fannish detail is going to be few and far between from me.

Today I am wearing my Captain Marvel jacket over a black shirt, grey trousers, and under a black woolen coat.

ps. Cobie's dress-with-cape that's presently in her instagram story, where she's walking down a hotel hall at SDCC with it floating out behind her? *sigh*

So, Steve is...not cockblocking, exactly, but he's kind of emotionally screwed up (hah, like that's news) now that Bucky's been deprogrammed but isn't actually connecting with him.

Luckily I had revelation on the train this morning, and talked myself through it on the walk to the client.

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I guess I did a lot of talking to myself on the way in from the station.

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Wondering if I (or someone else) should run a Captain Hill fic exchange for Christmas. Or possibly for V-Day, which would require organising now, since Christmas is an absolute nightmare.

Also: 12 days of Ficmas. I always want to do this, but haven't yet managed it.

And NaNo. Mostly, I plan to write 1K a day for the month. Although work also wants me to study for a certification exam in my area, and I'd be looking at taking that exam towards the end of the month...

Yes, life is pretty busy right now.

Headaches. I mean, it's not even 48 hours after I got the implant out, but headaches at the right temple.

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*sigh*

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Ugh. Life.

This is what happens when my present and current fandom disappoints me - I go back and look for the thing I'm missing.

In this case, it's the sense of team. So I went back and found Mirror Image by sgcbearcub, which is a team-fic for Stargate SG1 - a young team, created in the wake of the events of the Season Five (Six?) episode where a clone of Jack gets turned into a teenager.

TBH, I was looking it up for a fight scene that I wanted - Young!Sam vs. Young!Jack, testing the limits of their younger, still-growing bodies when their minds are much older and more experienced - and I've ended up reading a lot more of it than intended...

Sure it's a panacea, but right now, I'll take it.

beatrice_otter asked: Any ways your faith has affected or been affected by your fannish experiences? (Only if you're comfortable talking about stuff like that in public.)

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So, I got an anonymous ask on Tumblr, asking for a Steve/Maria AU to the lyrics of Hozier's 'It Will Come Back'.

Sometimes an idea just co-opts your brain and you have to run with it.

title: you should never know how easy you are to need
summary: She’s the paperwork, the duty, the chore – not someone that anyone seeks out. Responsibility isn’t fun, necessity isn’t glamourous, and nobody ever wants to stay around for clean-up. She does her job and she has all the interest factor of a grey cloud in a blue sky – people are mostly hoping she’ll go away.
tags: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, relationship, angst

title: don't take me in with no intention to keep me
summary: He signed up for an army that didn’t want him, for a chance that would change his life, and earned a one-way trip into a future he never imagined, and a war that could never truly be won. And the part of him that wasn’t a soldier didn’t make it out of the ice.
tags: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, relationship, angst, Civil War, Ragnarok, happy ending.

Those 1.2K of words have taken me the better part of a week to write, and nommed all the other words I had in my head.

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For those of you with a strong femme-focus; the February Halfamoon Challenge is up again this year - mostly over on Tumblr, but also here on halfamoon! Get your gifs and your fics and your meta ready to go, because the more the merrier!

So, I received my CB assignment and...we matched on one thing.

One thing that I can write with ease and comfort, and could quite probably put way more than the minimum 300 words into.

However, that one thing stuck out from all the other things that my CB recip had chosen in her sign-up. It was basically the scarlet poppy in a field of daisies. So I've mailed the organiser to check that the recip actually chose it and didn't make a slip of the mouse when they selected the pairings.

Still waiting; must remember to mail them again tonight to follow up.

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Things that have been bothering me in the last year of exchanges:

In other news, has it become common to require people to fill all the requests in an assignment they're given? I had someone do this in the Pacific Rim Secret Santa, and I just got a query from someone who was concerned that they'd been assigned two fanart requests and one fanfic request when they'd offered fanfic only.

You are given multiple requests, you only have to fill one.

Also, OPTIONAL PAIRINGS ARE OPTIONAL. This cannot be said often enough in general exchanges.

Finally, can we stop reading Dear Author letters as passive-aggressive? Please? They're not rules, as such, as said the crew of the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Carribean; They're more...guidelines. It would be nice we didn't treat the requests in them like someone is going to FIRE ZE MISSILES if we aren't precisely on point with that story, and assume the worst of people who are saying, "If you can do this, it would be nice," in a non-threatening, non-assumptive manner.

There are some people you just don't need to take shit from. Life's too short.