December Talking Meme 2014
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lunabee34Finishing 2014's December Talking Meme before December 2015 rolls around is probably a good idea.
executrix asked: What's the line between being "fannish" about something and "watching/reading/listening" to it?
Age.
IDK
The older I get, the less likely I am to become fannish about a new movie or show or book and start writing fic. I think the last time I did that was Live Free or Die Hard, and that was 2007 (nearly ten years ago!).
I post episode reviews of shows I'm watching sometimes. I even go look up fic to read sometimes; I did this most recently with Penny Dreadful, Ancillary Justice, Uprooted, and The Big Bang Theory. But I don't feel the urge to write fic very often anymore.
Ten years ago, I got fic inspiration the same way I used to get inspiration for writing poetry. I'd be walking along, doing my every day thing, and suddenly a line of poetry would appear in my head and I'd have to write it down; then a poem would take shape, usually rather quickly around that one line. In a similar fashion, I'd be watching a show or a movie (sometimes reading, but almost always watching something), and a line or a scenario or what happens next would pop into my head, and I'd write it down, and then a fic would take shape, usually rather quickly. This is why I spent the five hour drive from Oxford to Hattiesburg writing snippets of a fic on a napkin I was holding in the middle of the steering wheel; I just couldn't get the idea of Sam caught in a ghost-loop out of my head. I also ugly-cried the whole way, endangering the structural integrity of my napkins with my tears. This is why I also spent my lunch break at Security Check feverishly writing down thousands of words of Vala backstory instead of eating my lunch on the sidewalk like God intended people who don't deserve break rooms to eat.
That . . . just doesn't happen anymore. Every fic I've written in the last, oh I don't know how many years, has been the result of me signing up for a fest or a ficathon or as a thank you to someone (oh,endeni, don't worry; that thank you is still plugging along)--scenarios I've deliberately constructed in order to make myself write. (Well, I suppose the exception to that is the handful of fics I wrote when I first got into perfume fandom two Aprils ago; those came to me much in the same way I used to be inspired to write fic.)
(As an aside, I don't write poetry anymore at all. I think the last poem I wrote was in the last year of undergrad. I loved writing poetry and wrote poems extensively until I entered grad school. I think if I tried hard enough I could probably tease out why I stopped writing poems, but it was a craft I was very serious about honing until I just dropped it abruptly and entirely and now I never even think of writing poetry.)
So, I guess what I'm saying is that I measure my own level of fannishness by whether I'm writing fic, and I don't seem to be doing much of that anymore, especially not for new media. I am, however, still faithfully reading Harry Potter fic every chance I get, so there's that.
executrix asked: What's the line between being "fannish" about something and "watching/reading/listening" to it?Age.
IDK
The older I get, the less likely I am to become fannish about a new movie or show or book and start writing fic. I think the last time I did that was Live Free or Die Hard, and that was 2007 (nearly ten years ago!).
I post episode reviews of shows I'm watching sometimes. I even go look up fic to read sometimes; I did this most recently with Penny Dreadful, Ancillary Justice, Uprooted, and The Big Bang Theory. But I don't feel the urge to write fic very often anymore.
Ten years ago, I got fic inspiration the same way I used to get inspiration for writing poetry. I'd be walking along, doing my every day thing, and suddenly a line of poetry would appear in my head and I'd have to write it down; then a poem would take shape, usually rather quickly around that one line. In a similar fashion, I'd be watching a show or a movie (sometimes reading, but almost always watching something), and a line or a scenario or what happens next would pop into my head, and I'd write it down, and then a fic would take shape, usually rather quickly. This is why I spent the five hour drive from Oxford to Hattiesburg writing snippets of a fic on a napkin I was holding in the middle of the steering wheel; I just couldn't get the idea of Sam caught in a ghost-loop out of my head. I also ugly-cried the whole way, endangering the structural integrity of my napkins with my tears. This is why I also spent my lunch break at Security Check feverishly writing down thousands of words of Vala backstory instead of eating my lunch on the sidewalk like God intended people who don't deserve break rooms to eat.
That . . . just doesn't happen anymore. Every fic I've written in the last, oh I don't know how many years, has been the result of me signing up for a fest or a ficathon or as a thank you to someone (oh,
endeni, don't worry; that thank you is still plugging along)--scenarios I've deliberately constructed in order to make myself write. (Well, I suppose the exception to that is the handful of fics I wrote when I first got into perfume fandom two Aprils ago; those came to me much in the same way I used to be inspired to write fic.)(As an aside, I don't write poetry anymore at all. I think the last poem I wrote was in the last year of undergrad. I loved writing poetry and wrote poems extensively until I entered grad school. I think if I tried hard enough I could probably tease out why I stopped writing poems, but it was a craft I was very serious about honing until I just dropped it abruptly and entirely and now I never even think of writing poetry.)
So, I guess what I'm saying is that I measure my own level of fannishness by whether I'm writing fic, and I don't seem to be doing much of that anymore, especially not for new media. I am, however, still faithfully reading Harry Potter fic every chance I get, so there's that.
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Date: 2015-08-03 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-04 12:06 am (UTC)I admit that I have mostly been ebbing over the last decade. LOL
I had about four or five years of intense and wonderful production, though.
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Date: 2015-08-03 05:30 pm (UTC)And the idea of you and those napkins is so cute. I don't get that kind of inspiration often either but the rare times when it happens it's awesome!
/So, I guess what I'm saying is that I measure my own level of fannishness by whether I'm writing fic, and I don't seem to be doing much of that anymore, especially not for new media. I am, however, still faithfully reading Harry Potter fic every chance I get, so there's that./ - But there are tons of ways of being fannish, right? For example reading meta or reccing staff or moderating comms or what have ou. ;)
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Date: 2015-08-04 12:32 am (UTC)Oh, absolutely 100%. Plus making icons and art and all manner of other things.
For me (just for me--not for anybody else), I tend to think of writing fic as the yard stick by which I measure my fannishness. Or really writing in general. If I was writing a lot of meta or actually writing up recs of all the HP fic I read, then I'd probably feel as if I were more a part of fandom.
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Date: 2015-08-03 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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