ahhh, SENTINEL FEVER *____*
Nov. 4th, 2006 05:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaYou know, it's a lot easier to say 'this isn't working for me' about a thing [fandom, pairing] you love without rancor when something else -is- working. Spectacularly :> :>
Wow. It's like... I love so many more things about the possibilities in HP & H/D than [what I currently know of] The Sentinel, but maaan... now here is a fandom where for years, oodles of talented people decided 'hey, I like The Sentinel... why don't I write long, plotty, smutty, well-characterized-- and completed!-- epics for it? that sounds like a swell idea'. Where in HP we have WIPs & crackfic [especially in H/D], to the point where you have fanon crack successfully accepted as 'normal' fic a lot of times because, y'know, it's written seriously-- in TS there's crack & PWPs in their nice cozy corner-- a big corner, but not the overwhelming majority of stuff written. Wow. I'm so in love. *____* Nearly OD'ing, yes, sort of horrified at the idea of never leaving the house for a week and only reading longfic after longfic, yes, but-- in love :D :D :D
See, people (the fangirls I know) seem to fall in love with fandoms or characters or pairings rather than... well, fanfics. And I obviously do the character-love thing too, but I can't be in a fandom just for that-- it drains me, upsets me, frustrates me. Not that I'd be so happy if I wasn't really into Jim/Blair too, but if you wrote this pairing in an average manner, I would never dig it-- it's too ordinary, too... commonplace at its roots. Too easy to mess up, but in a subtle way, the way real relationships-- well, friendships-turned-relationships-- tend to be. It requires a deft touch in a different way than the overt dramatics and baggage of H/D. Maybe H/D is just -so- sparkly/dense/extreme that it seems easier because it's so difficult people get overwhelmed and bounce straight into crack/fanon. I mean, Jim/Blair is difficult too, but in an intricate, slow-paced, humanly complicated way, so maybe that quality attracts the kind of writing I've been dying to see in HP, I dunno.
I remember asking for fandom recs, and really I should've asked for fic recs-- though these things come in their own good time. I mean, I should just accept there's generally this gap between what sort of canon I like and what fanon it produces, because there's actually a bunch of YA book/TV & manga/anime fandoms I'd read for if it produced serious lengthy slash epics... which. It doesn't. At all. -.- With possibly the exception of Buffy... which I don't slash. ^^;
Man, it's just... so great to let go of the baggage, y'know? A weight off my shoulders, only having my innate biases with me as I read, and not years'-worth of accumulated fanon-consciousness and peevish particularity. It's so blessedly wonderful to not know the fanon, I can't even tell you; to just... be unaware when a tiny little note is off, and only notice the big, important things and how they fit together, slowly. It's so wonderful to relax & admit that writing is what I care about, fanfic or not. I'm so tired of being a canon-whore, so tired of vigilance, so tired of trying to take crack seriously, man. I like reading stuff with meat on its bones so I could -appreciate- the fluffy crack more & not get sick on my chocolate diet. Ahh.
Which is not to say I'm not thinking of actually downloading The Sentinel to watch, 'cause I am :D Hey, BLAIR IS HOT, NEIN?? :D :D :D :D
Wow. It's like... I love so many more things about the possibilities in HP & H/D than [what I currently know of] The Sentinel, but maaan... now here is a fandom where for years, oodles of talented people decided 'hey, I like The Sentinel... why don't I write long, plotty, smutty, well-characterized-- and completed!-- epics for it? that sounds like a swell idea'. Where in HP we have WIPs & crackfic [especially in H/D], to the point where you have fanon crack successfully accepted as 'normal' fic a lot of times because, y'know, it's written seriously-- in TS there's crack & PWPs in their nice cozy corner-- a big corner, but not the overwhelming majority of stuff written. Wow. I'm so in love. *____* Nearly OD'ing, yes, sort of horrified at the idea of never leaving the house for a week and only reading longfic after longfic, yes, but-- in love :D :D :D
See, people (the fangirls I know) seem to fall in love with fandoms or characters or pairings rather than... well, fanfics. And I obviously do the character-love thing too, but I can't be in a fandom just for that-- it drains me, upsets me, frustrates me. Not that I'd be so happy if I wasn't really into Jim/Blair too, but if you wrote this pairing in an average manner, I would never dig it-- it's too ordinary, too... commonplace at its roots. Too easy to mess up, but in a subtle way, the way real relationships-- well, friendships-turned-relationships-- tend to be. It requires a deft touch in a different way than the overt dramatics and baggage of H/D. Maybe H/D is just -so- sparkly/dense/extreme that it seems easier because it's so difficult people get overwhelmed and bounce straight into crack/fanon. I mean, Jim/Blair is difficult too, but in an intricate, slow-paced, humanly complicated way, so maybe that quality attracts the kind of writing I've been dying to see in HP, I dunno.
I remember asking for fandom recs, and really I should've asked for fic recs-- though these things come in their own good time. I mean, I should just accept there's generally this gap between what sort of canon I like and what fanon it produces, because there's actually a bunch of YA book/TV & manga/anime fandoms I'd read for if it produced serious lengthy slash epics... which. It doesn't. At all. -.- With possibly the exception of Buffy... which I don't slash. ^^;
Man, it's just... so great to let go of the baggage, y'know? A weight off my shoulders, only having my innate biases with me as I read, and not years'-worth of accumulated fanon-consciousness and peevish particularity. It's so blessedly wonderful to not know the fanon, I can't even tell you; to just... be unaware when a tiny little note is off, and only notice the big, important things and how they fit together, slowly. It's so wonderful to relax & admit that writing is what I care about, fanfic or not. I'm so tired of being a canon-whore, so tired of vigilance, so tired of trying to take crack seriously, man. I like reading stuff with meat on its bones so I could -appreciate- the fluffy crack more & not get sick on my chocolate diet. Ahh.
Which is not to say I'm not thinking of actually downloading The Sentinel to watch, 'cause I am :D Hey, BLAIR IS HOT, NEIN?? :D :D :D :D
