Meme, part 1 of 4

[netgirl_y2k]

In service of my actually being around a bit here is a meme I have nicked from nostalgia, there are more questions than these but I shall answer them at a later date.

1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It's a bit funny because recently people on tumblr were reblogging things celebrating the 25th anniversary and I realised that, nope, still don't want to even look at anything to do with that show. As well as being my first fandom it is also the fandom that I fell out of with the biggest thunk. It wasn't like Merlin where I hung around for years being cross and ruining things for other people; I got to the attempted rape, salted the ashes, and never thought about the show or fandom again.

2. What is your latest fandom?

Legends of Tomorrow.

It is so relaxing to have a show that I just like. That I don't want to think too critically about or engage with too deeply (I know this is technically an option for all shows, but let's be real, if we were wired like that we wouldn't be in fandom). Where there's never going to be an out of left field plot development or bit of characterisation that will ruin the show for me with its stupidity, because of course it will be stupid, it's all stupid, it's meant to be stupid. That's the whole point.

It is a show that makes me happy in my heart.

Also, it has Sara Lance.

3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?

Person of Interest was good times.

Root/Shaw was exactly the type of pairing I wanted to write after years of writing pseudo mediaeval ladies versus the patriarchy. The extended gap between seasons four and five gave me lots of time for reading and writing while the binge watch was still fresh in my mind. And despite the filler episode and pacing issues of season five it gave me lots of good Root/Shaw content. At least it did up until Root died, but I mostly managed to sidestep that wank, partly because pacing issues aside I thought that was a good and fitting end for that character, and partly because the people screaming the loudest didn't seem to care about PoI so much as they were still mad about Lexa and looking for a And Another Thing...

4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?

Merlin.

Not so much getting involved, as sticking around being a Negative Nellie for so long once it became clear that both show and fandom were For Other People To Enjoy.

5. Which fandoms have your written fanfiction for?

Doctor Who, ASOIAF/GoT, Merlin, and Person of Interest are the big ones.

Agent Carter, The Checquy Files, Discworld, Jessica Jones, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Kushiel's Legacy, and The 100 all feature at least once.

While I didn't scrape my Buffy and Harry Potter fic from the face of the internet none of it is on AO3. The Buffy fic for the aforementioned crashing out of fandom, the HP fic because it was bad.

Comments

[nostalgia]

I stuck with Buffy to the bitter, bitter end but I probably shouldn't have. (It was a social thing though, we used to watch it in groups at university.)

[netgirl_y2k]

It is hard to back out of these things when they are social. It is a bit awkward to say "I hate this thing you love." It is sometimes fun to hate things together, though, and the only way I got through Torchwood.

[nostalgia]

I can enjoy Torchwood in a certain mood but I admit I'm a bit baffled that sometimes I see people who think it's genuinely great television and really good apart from S3 which is the one bit I think is *actually* good.

[shaggydogstail]

And despite being the only one that actually is any good (as opposed to merely enjoyable sometimes), S3 is the one that gets hated on the most, which says a lot about TW fandom, actually.

[nostalgia]

Is it because Precious Ianto dies?

[shaggydogstail]

*nods* Mm-hm. Pretty white boys are the most precious, after all.

(Don't wanna be a hypocrite, because I too like pretty white boys! But, y'know, I like to think I have some fucking perspective.)

[nostalgia]

Some of them are very pretty but I never seem to love them as much as other people do.

[shaggydogstail]

The love is fine, it's the insistence on them being the Most Important that's when things get nasty.

[nostalgia]

yeah :(

[shaggydogstail]

re Merlin I never saw you a Negative Nellie because you were right in all things, but yeah, backing away slowly at an earlier juncture might've been a good idea in many ways. As it is my bitterness about the show remains eternal and unyielding and the fandom... yikes.

[netgirl_y2k]

At least I was mostly being grouchy at people who were also grouchy about the show, and I'd mostly peaced out by the time the fandom went totally off the deep end.

[shaggydogstail]

I imagine the rage of the Arthur/Merlin fans over the finale must've been unpleasant close up, but the distant howls of despair over the implication that the Golden Age of Camelot was all Gwen's doing warmed my shrivelled heart no end.

And, yeah, you were only ever a mite grumpy. You never called anyone a useless fuckface or anything.

[netgirl_y2k]

Gwen being the Once and Future Queen warmed my heart too, that and the implication that ultimately Merlin failed and then spent the next thousand years living in a hedge :)

Yeah, fandom these days seems full of people who really, really need to get some fresh air, hug a tree, play with a puppy.

[grimorie]

raises a glass To Person of Interest.

I think, other than my recent revived love for Doctor Who, I still don't have a show or fandom that gets me like POI.

[netgirl_y2k]

*clinks glasses*

I think it helped that I missed all the fandom wank when it came to PoI. I started watching the show after all the upset over Carter's death had come and gone. Not that I wasn't upset, but I knew it was coming and I knew there was good stuff on the other side of it. And while I still think Finch should have died too, Shaw and Fusco (and Bear!) as the new Team Machine was what I'd predicted, and an ending I was happy with.