My mother's visiting, so I have even less time to catch up with anything than usual. But guilt aside, talking to my mother is really helpful sometimes, especially about fandom. Heh. Talk about unspoiled viewpoint. Though of course she's observed me for awhile, and I've been a fan of this-or-that for as long as I remember... though I'm a lone-wolf sort of fan. Don't play well with others, all that. But anyway.
My first "real" fandom was Star Trek, right... and my mother likes to remind me, asking me what I think of William Shatner's priceline commercials & all that. And why don't I care. And how come I went straight from an insane urge to read every Star Trek commercial novel released to an equally intense need to watch every anime ever released. I was sort of surprised, 'cause anime isn't a fandom-- it's a form of media. It's like loving comics or films-- it's a much more visual and passive thing than being a reader of some particular set of linked novels. So then my mother brought up the fact that after all, Star Trek too is primarily in a visual medium, right? Well, not to me.
I've never been a fan of Star Trek, the -show-. The original source, if you will, of the commercial fandom (which I stumbled across through a garish display at my local library before I ever knew about the show's existence). I could take it or leave it. I loved the films (especially "The Voyage Home", which is one of my all-time favorite movies, probably 'cause it has the most Jim&Spock in it), and the original series is okay, and TNG is quite good... but if you're talking visual sci-fi, my tolerance is high but my enjoyment stunted, compared to the written variety. My mother, surprisingly, wasn't taken aback by this incongruity, unlike a lot of people who're quite surprised to know I'm a lukewarm fan of the HP novels in general most times, while I'm a rabid fan of H/D fanfic, and in fact my appreciation for both isn't necessarily even -connected-. "It depends on what you're looking for", she said.
( Well, I thought... what I'm looking for, you can't find just anywhere. Heh. )
My first "real" fandom was Star Trek, right... and my mother likes to remind me, asking me what I think of William Shatner's priceline commercials & all that. And why don't I care. And how come I went straight from an insane urge to read every Star Trek commercial novel released to an equally intense need to watch every anime ever released. I was sort of surprised, 'cause anime isn't a fandom-- it's a form of media. It's like loving comics or films-- it's a much more visual and passive thing than being a reader of some particular set of linked novels. So then my mother brought up the fact that after all, Star Trek too is primarily in a visual medium, right? Well, not to me.
I've never been a fan of Star Trek, the -show-. The original source, if you will, of the commercial fandom (which I stumbled across through a garish display at my local library before I ever knew about the show's existence). I could take it or leave it. I loved the films (especially "The Voyage Home", which is one of my all-time favorite movies, probably 'cause it has the most Jim&Spock in it), and the original series is okay, and TNG is quite good... but if you're talking visual sci-fi, my tolerance is high but my enjoyment stunted, compared to the written variety. My mother, surprisingly, wasn't taken aback by this incongruity, unlike a lot of people who're quite surprised to know I'm a lukewarm fan of the HP novels in general most times, while I'm a rabid fan of H/D fanfic, and in fact my appreciation for both isn't necessarily even -connected-. "It depends on what you're looking for", she said.
( Well, I thought... what I'm looking for, you can't find just anywhere. Heh. )
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