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lotesseSo, okay, I am no longer quite so blue and fragile, but I am still badly out of touch with fannish squee. Idk why, but all of my post-yuletide writing projects are languishing and I'm not writing and argh. And I think part of it is that I miss being in an active fandom? Where people'll ramble about the sourcetext in a communally squeeful kind of way? So I'm going to ramble and squee about some things, and if you're feeling it squee back mmkay? Also there are picspams, because yay picspams right?
I stayed away from spn for a long time after our messy breakup - the one that started in S3 and then dragged into S4 and was messy, yo - but I marathoned the first season and a bit of late and homg I heart this show with wild hearting! If only for the consistent way they mirror SamnDean against women and little kids. And also Sam's hair, which was still cute. And the epic ust between Dean and Ellen, cmon guys that was awesome. And! JOHN. JOHN FREAKING WINCHESTER YO. He is more badass than you, and also hotter than fire, which is kind of ironic because fire? not such a good thing in the guy's life, but whatever. HE'S EDIBLE, OKAY? And Stan the Yed! Anyway, withastolat posting S2 fic, I actually kind of feel in on the zeitgeist with this one. (It is, of course, awesome fic - but you don't need me to tell you that.)
and I do not have SPN photos that I feel are worth picspamming, because I've been out of this one for a while, so ...
Like, yanno, every other white American kid born in the eighties, I grew up on Star Wars. V. definitely a formative slasher text, but formative h/c even more so. Hoth! Force lightning! "Father, please!" Luke Skywalker is like the best woobieon the planet in the galaxy. It helps that I find Mark Hamill desperately adorable. And all of a sudden, a few months ago, I found that I could actually interact! in a fannish way! with this beloved source text of my childhood. (Now if I can just finish any of the other SW OT fic I have started ...)
Current favorite Star Wars thing: Luke's squawky little voice, my god, he's such a doll! The fact that when Luke and Leia take turns yelling at Han in the trash compactor on the Death Star their voices sound exactly the same for serious. The tension between Luke's tendency to be dutiful and his emergent sense of self (a certain point of view? Bitch it up a little more, baby, but you're doing just fine). The way any given "love triangle" scene can be read as either queer or incestuous, depending on your present preference.
also, you know what, have some awesome pictures:
Lando hones in on the ot3; sorry, honey, they look pretty involved. Also - dude, Mark, I think you could get a little closer to Carrie's breasts if you tried harder. Just saying.
Baaaaby! How is this, like, the most evocative shot ever? idek.
Mark/Carrie: I would be totally lying if I said I didn't ship it like a shipping thing. Although I know a little too much about how unhappy Carrie Fisher actually was in those years to go all the way. It's like my sekrit fantasy AU of the way reality was less screwed up and more full of sexy shenanigans.
... because I can't not, omg. This is, like, that fandom I can't stay away from! And it's such a little bit of a thing, and I always end up sulking about not having more show/fandom/anything omg. Tho I am a hypocrite, because I have also not managed to finish and BSG fanwork, damn my eyes! But it's just so candy sweet; I have no resistance to its charms, man.
Been watching episodes of Nu!BSG - erm, mainly the ones with Richard Hatch in them, he makes me feel sixteen and breathless - and it's a damn good show but it just ain't mine. I'm utopia girl, and it doesn't love utopias. Also think it's very telling that the Moppet - my faaavorite part of Classic - had to vanish for them to tell their stories; people in this verse don't seem to take to being awesome adoptive parents in quite the same eager way. I can't decide if I'd rather squee about the totally unnecessary handsiness of Classic or Apollo's pretty green eeeeeyes or just general lurve. It's weird how Classic, desperately inelegant as it is, creates a space I believe in so much more than Nu!BSG does - I want to move into BSG 78, whereas the reboot is all dark and echo-y and more realistic, I guess, but I still don't believe anyone actually lives there, because none of them seem to be in love with anyone else.
excellent pictures:
God Richard Hatch how are you so sexy for srs? I can actually remember sitting at my father's computer late at night as a sixteen-year-old and physically sighing over him. Guitar + sneakers + his pretty faaaace = lurve.
Hmm - I seem to being doing classic-style media fandoms at present? Which is funny because between Radclyffe Hall and George Eliot and also rereading stuff from the Brontës' Angria and Gondal games my non-media brain is very girl-centric at present. Maybe that's why I can't write! Anyway, off to watch more pretty boys on my screen - bugger productivity tonight.
I stayed away from spn for a long time after our messy breakup - the one that started in S3 and then dragged into S4 and was messy, yo - but I marathoned the first season and a bit of late and homg I heart this show with wild hearting! If only for the consistent way they mirror SamnDean against women and little kids. And also Sam's hair, which was still cute. And the epic ust between Dean and Ellen, cmon guys that was awesome. And! JOHN. JOHN FREAKING WINCHESTER YO. He is more badass than you, and also hotter than fire, which is kind of ironic because fire? not such a good thing in the guy's life, but whatever. HE'S EDIBLE, OKAY? And Stan the Yed! Anyway, with
astolat posting S2 fic, I actually kind of feel in on the zeitgeist with this one. (It is, of course, awesome fic - but you don't need me to tell you that.) and I do not have SPN photos that I feel are worth picspamming, because I've been out of this one for a while, so ...
Like, yanno, every other white American kid born in the eighties, I grew up on Star Wars. V. definitely a formative slasher text, but formative h/c even more so. Hoth! Force lightning! "Father, please!" Luke Skywalker is like the best woobie
Current favorite Star Wars thing: Luke's squawky little voice, my god, he's such a doll! The fact that when Luke and Leia take turns yelling at Han in the trash compactor on the Death Star their voices sound exactly the same for serious. The tension between Luke's tendency to be dutiful and his emergent sense of self (a certain point of view? Bitch it up a little more, baby, but you're doing just fine). The way any given "love triangle" scene can be read as either queer or incestuous, depending on your present preference.
also, you know what, have some awesome pictures:
Lando hones in on the ot3; sorry, honey, they look pretty involved. Also - dude, Mark, I think you could get a little closer to Carrie's breasts if you tried harder. Just saying.
Baaaaby! How is this, like, the most evocative shot ever? idek.
Mark/Carrie: I would be totally lying if I said I didn't ship it like a shipping thing. Although I know a little too much about how unhappy Carrie Fisher actually was in those years to go all the way. It's like my sekrit fantasy AU of the way reality was less screwed up and more full of sexy shenanigans.
... because I can't not, omg. This is, like, that fandom I can't stay away from! And it's such a little bit of a thing, and I always end up sulking about not having more show/fandom/anything omg. Tho I am a hypocrite, because I have also not managed to finish and BSG fanwork, damn my eyes! But it's just so candy sweet; I have no resistance to its charms, man.
Been watching episodes of Nu!BSG - erm, mainly the ones with Richard Hatch in them, he makes me feel sixteen and breathless - and it's a damn good show but it just ain't mine. I'm utopia girl, and it doesn't love utopias. Also think it's very telling that the Moppet - my faaavorite part of Classic - had to vanish for them to tell their stories; people in this verse don't seem to take to being awesome adoptive parents in quite the same eager way. I can't decide if I'd rather squee about the totally unnecessary handsiness of Classic or Apollo's pretty green eeeeeyes or just general lurve. It's weird how Classic, desperately inelegant as it is, creates a space I believe in so much more than Nu!BSG does - I want to move into BSG 78, whereas the reboot is all dark and echo-y and more realistic, I guess, but I still don't believe anyone actually lives there, because none of them seem to be in love with anyone else.
excellent pictures:
God Richard Hatch how are you so sexy for srs? I can actually remember sitting at my father's computer late at night as a sixteen-year-old and physically sighing over him. Guitar + sneakers + his pretty faaaace = lurve.
Hmm - I seem to being doing classic-style media fandoms at present? Which is funny because between Radclyffe Hall and George Eliot and also rereading stuff from the Brontës' Angria and Gondal games my non-media brain is very girl-centric at present. Maybe that's why I can't write! Anyway, off to watch more pretty boys on my screen - bugger productivity tonight.
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Date: 2011-02-23 03:17 am (UTC)My conservative conservative childhood best friend was totally a Luke/Leia shipper. In hindsight, this was a bit strange coming from her. But there you go!
Me, I'm a noob, my Star Wars thing is Phantom Menace. Oh my I was so incredibly obsessed with the planet Naboo at around age twelve. I wanted to move there and wear caked-on white foundation with odd red lips.
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Date: 2011-02-23 04:33 am (UTC)I loved the costuming, the design, the shiny shiny spaceships. And Amidala was hot and there were costume-related disguises, which always appeal to me. I'm not sure how much, at the time, I appreciated the fact that Amidala's *not* a warrior, although she is trained in self-defense, but that may have been part of it.
I liked podracing more than x-wing fighting. No particular reason, I just did.
I also... I know the worldbuilding of the early movies is clunky and actually detracts from the story, but I liked it. I liked the fact that they built an entire plotline around *trade embargos* (and I lost interest once we got to the clone wars, which are basically INVADE ALL THE THINGS). I like the Republic much better than the Empire, for a variety of reasons. As a kid, the prequel series had scope which the originals didn't, and I *liked* that, I liked the sense of a whole world ticking away in its intricate detail. I cared about the diplomatic intrigue and the fate of the people of Naboo as much as I cared about the eventual battle scenes. (I was, I will grant you, an odd child)
And, hmm. On a more complex level, I like that stage in the history of the 'verse, the point where people still believe in the Republic, even as you know it's coming apart at the seams. They're not fighting to *create* something or to *defeat* something, but to save something. And I like that.
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Date: 2011-02-23 03:54 pm (UTC)Oh, Star Wars. I can't even. Pretty sure it beat out Star Trek for my first fandom, though not by much. They were bonding material for me and my uncle..and occurs to me I haven't watched them since he died. Perhaps I need a weekend of sci-fi viewage soon.
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Date: 2011-02-23 04:19 pm (UTC)If you do end up watching it, please blog. I'd be interested to see the transition from the other side - I watched Classic years before the Reboot, and imprinted on it so hard that I was never able to enjoy the newer incarnation. Tho I can see it being easier going from Dark N Gritty to Yay Shiny 70s than the other way around - I got so used to the earlier pure-of-heart hug-dispensing sweeter-than-candy characterizations that, frex, Ron Moore's Bill Adama was a real system shocker.