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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?

Comments

[lyr]

Oh, hey! Thanks for the rec!

On the topic of fandom, I'd have to say that I'm pretty happy in all of mine. I'm very multi-fannish, so you'd think I'd simply have extra vectors for wank to attack me, but it really hasn't worked out like that. Mostly people have been really nice and wonderfully complimentary. I've been aware of the riptides of wank in my fandoms on several occasions, but my violent allergy to anything which even smells faintly of melodrama has always warned me in time to get well clear of it. I follow a firm policy of never reading or talking about any sort of wank, and this has always worked out well for me. If pressed, I simply play dumb blonde and say "Wank? What wank? Sorry, I have to be somewhere else right now. Bye!"

I was somewhat surprised to read that thread over at mosca's, because I had no idea that anyone I know felt marginalized. It may be just egocentricism on my part---I remain blissfully convinced that all my neighborhoods in fandom are the places to be---but I've never felt that way myself, even when I was in rare niches or writing things I didn't really expect would find much of an audience (Righteousness, for example).

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

It was well deserved. :)

I'm like you. I've had such a positive experience in fandom, that it always surprises me when people say they don't. I was particularly thrown aback by that post of mosca's myself, mostly because I admire her writing so much and it shocked me that she feels alienated from the fandom. And ana_grrl commented that she feels much the same way. I hate that. I want everyone to have joyful!joyful fandom times. LOL