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Chicks dig scars
Jul. 11th, 2009 11:11 pmI've been thinking lately about fandom milestones, war wounds as it were, the kind that you're not so secretly proud of because they're evidence that you accomplished Something Awesome. And probably Porny.
So, in ascending order
1. Post fic to Yahoo listserv
2. Misunderstand how Yahoo listserv works; think no one likes your fic until you actually, oh, check your Yahoo mail
2. Get coerced into using Livejournal/Dreamwidth/Insanejournal/Fanfiction.net
3. The one-shot fic
4. The multi-chaptered, serially posted fic
5. The multi-chaptered fic posted all at once
6. Participating in your friend's ficathon
7. Participating in a stranger's ficathon and not getting a story in return
8. Running your own ficathon because, dude, exchanges are cool but also kinda sucky
9. I made a comm! I made a comm!
10. People are joining! People are joining!
11. Yuletide!
12. Maintaining a huge recs list
13. Remix
14. The Big Bang
I make this list because Big Bang is very much on my mind right now and it seems to be the pinnacle of the fannish milestone, the sort of "no really, my fingers were BLEEDING. THEY BLED. MY KEYBOARD DOES NOT WORK NOW" kind of moment we've all been waiting for. The second fic I ever wrote qualifies in length for Big Bang, if you know, I'd posted it all at once and the Buffyverse had had Big Bang.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ariadne83 and I are writing this epic SGA fic right now that's at about 19000 words and will probably be twice as long by the time we're done and part of me keeps wondering, in an abstracted and rather facetious way, how we will post it because damn it! I want the war wound, but I think Big Bang (in SGA at least) has all these inexplicable rules about pairings rather than just being the free-for-all that SPN Big Bang appears to be (Good job, SPN!). I can't help thinking of Big Bang as the last established fannish thing that I have yet to do.
So, what are your fannish milestones? What did I leave out? Can I achieve top fannish street cred if I don't ever write a Big Bang fic? LOL Talk amongst yourselves.
So, in ascending order
1. Post fic to Yahoo listserv
2. Misunderstand how Yahoo listserv works; think no one likes your fic until you actually, oh, check your Yahoo mail
2. Get coerced into using Livejournal/Dreamwidth/Insanejournal/Fanfiction.net
3. The one-shot fic
4. The multi-chaptered, serially posted fic
5. The multi-chaptered fic posted all at once
6. Participating in your friend's ficathon
7. Participating in a stranger's ficathon and not getting a story in return
8. Running your own ficathon because, dude, exchanges are cool but also kinda sucky
9. I made a comm! I made a comm!
10. People are joining! People are joining!
11. Yuletide!
12. Maintaining a huge recs list
13. Remix
14. The Big Bang
I make this list because Big Bang is very much on my mind right now and it seems to be the pinnacle of the fannish milestone, the sort of "no really, my fingers were BLEEDING. THEY BLED. MY KEYBOARD DOES NOT WORK NOW" kind of moment we've all been waiting for. The second fic I ever wrote qualifies in length for Big Bang, if you know, I'd posted it all at once and the Buffyverse had had Big Bang.
ariadne83 and I are writing this epic SGA fic right now that's at about 19000 words and will probably be twice as long by the time we're done and part of me keeps wondering, in an abstracted and rather facetious way, how we will post it because damn it! I want the war wound, but I think Big Bang (in SGA at least) has all these inexplicable rules about pairings rather than just being the free-for-all that SPN Big Bang appears to be (Good job, SPN!). I can't help thinking of Big Bang as the last established fannish thing that I have yet to do.So, what are your fannish milestones? What did I leave out? Can I achieve top fannish street cred if I don't ever write a Big Bang fic? LOL Talk amongst yourselves.
