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[lunabee34]

Lots of great fun on my last post about fic bunnies. So far we've got some pretty interesting Dawn and Glory meta going on, not to mention the long lost connection between BtVS and The Golden Girls. Also, pretty much everybody seems to be lamenting the lack of awesome Trek fic.

20 Things You Didn't Know About Saffron by hopefulnebula Written in list form, this is a very engaging look at what has formed the inimitable YoSaffBridge.

Little Red Riding Simon and the Big Bad Jayne by lyrstzha This is so wonderfully silly. Read! Read!

Detente, janissa11's followup to the wonderful "Tussle." Last time it hurt. This time it doesn’t, but he hurts anyway, wishes Jayne would thump him a couple of times just to make the overcoat match the underdrawers.


Also, I have questions prompted by mosca's recent post on the Firefly fandom and what she perceives as her place in it.

How do you guys feel about the fandoms you are currently involved with? Is fandom just one never-ending love affair for you? Are you really dissatisfied? Stuff you really wish was different? Happy as a lark? In other words, how do you read the litmus test on the current state of your fandoms?

I think I am in a rather unique position in that my fannish experience has been pretty much wholeheartedly positive. I've been met with kindness and overwhelming generosity at every turn. I've managed to avoid wank and kerfluffleage, although Lord knows I'm surprised as hell at that given club_joss. I wish I was able to turn out more fic as I write like a turtle if at all, and I wish my Buffy/Faith piece had gotten more feedback, but that's it (almost forgot more participation in club_joss; that might even be my primary wish). Other than that, I am utterly happy in fandom. I feel like I've been accepted and that I have a contribution to make. What about you guys?

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[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did, but the thing is: I have a dog (am a fan) because I love dogs (fandom) in general, and I love my dog (any of my canons) in particular more than any other dog (canon) in the world; she's my perfect dog (canon), so I'm perfectly willing to put up with the realities of having a dog (fandom), because my dog makes me kind of spastically happy. (To extend the analogy even further: there are no dog parks where I live. This is much like trying to find f/f in SGA: it doesn't work, and clearly, they don't want my kind here. So I let my dog run around off-leash where I shouldn't, and I write stories that no one will read. But I will persevere, or else I will move to a place that does want me.)

It's not that I don't love (my) fandom(s), and it's not that I'm not happy with where I am (both in my specific fandoms and in fandom in general) — although I will point out that your Buffy/Faith got more feedback than 98% of the Buffy/Faith I've ever read (it was also vastly better than 98% of the Buffy/Faith I've read, but that doesn't really seem to have much to do with it) — it's that there are inherent problems in fandom as in real life, and they mitigate the ideal pleasure that might be had.

I think that was part of the backdrop to mosca's post: the real problem with fandom is that it's inhabited with fans. That is, there are actual people out there on the other end of the etherline, and they have their own problems and ideas and limits and sometimes those problems and ideas and limits run up against our own problems and ideas and limits.

In my perfect world, all the Spike/Xander would be replaced with Faith/Willow (with lots of nice realistic lesbian sex), and there would never be any hurt feelings or irritability or nastiness between fans, and everyone would offer generous, honest, and constructive feedback on everything.

But fandom is not my perfect world; it's got it's own dog shit, even in the middle of that gorgeous springtime walk up the California coast at sunset after a storm.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Everything you've said here makes a lot of sense. And although I haven't really stepped in or had to clean up any of the dog shit, I have looked down the street and seen my neighbors doing so, so I can get where you're coming from.