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Various fannish things
I don't talk here much, but I'm still actively fannish about some things. Sometimes it baffles me which and I'm not sure why, but things make me happy and I'm not questioning those at the moment!
I just finished rewatching series 3 of the new Doctor Who - Ten and Martha for those confused about numbering (because lord knows I am sometimes). And it was good. I mean, it was really good. Not unproblematic, but it hooked me back in. There's some good writing in there, some interesting ideas, some great performances and characters that I care about. I wept for the Face of Boe, I cheered for Martha, my heart broke for John Smith and Joan, and John Simm's Master made me gleeful. Damn, I miss that show.
Writing... well, yes, I'm still writing. I've got three active WiPs at the moment, the most pressing (and longest) of which is the Kradam Big Bang. It's nearly done, I know where it's all going, and once that's done and edited, I'll be back to editing the werewolves. (Draft is done, alpha reader comments are back, and I need time to focus solely on that.)
The other two are the ones that baffle me. I seem to have slid unintentionally into One Direction fandom, and there's another post to come out of that about shame and joy and perception but that's for another time. For now, I'm 6k into a sort of Grease inspired fic (I would say AU, but it's set in a Manchester college, not Rydell, and Greased Lightening has turned into a modded Corsa and the dance competition has become a Battle of the Bands) which is Nick Grimshaw/Harry (yes, I'm also listening to Radio 1 for the first time in... my life, actually, I've got a lot of ingrained snobbery about pop music that I'm working through). I still need a title for that and yes, I will take suggestions. The third fic is pure pwp and again AU where Louis and Zayn shoot vids for Corbin Fisher and are assigned for Harry's first shoot.
I still miss The Hour and want to write something for that. Something Bel/Freddie, probably, but I also want to write something for Lix if I can capture her because possibly I want to be her and possibly I just want her to domme me into an exhaused sated puddle. I'm also rewatching Leverage and marvelling at how many slamdunk excellent episodes were in season one.
Can't miss viewing continues to be Defiance. That show makes me so happy, though I have sadness at some of the events of last week.
I just finished rewatching series 3 of the new Doctor Who - Ten and Martha for those confused about numbering (because lord knows I am sometimes). And it was good. I mean, it was really good. Not unproblematic, but it hooked me back in. There's some good writing in there, some interesting ideas, some great performances and characters that I care about. I wept for the Face of Boe, I cheered for Martha, my heart broke for John Smith and Joan, and John Simm's Master made me gleeful. Damn, I miss that show.
Writing... well, yes, I'm still writing. I've got three active WiPs at the moment, the most pressing (and longest) of which is the Kradam Big Bang. It's nearly done, I know where it's all going, and once that's done and edited, I'll be back to editing the werewolves. (Draft is done, alpha reader comments are back, and I need time to focus solely on that.)
The other two are the ones that baffle me. I seem to have slid unintentionally into One Direction fandom, and there's another post to come out of that about shame and joy and perception but that's for another time. For now, I'm 6k into a sort of Grease inspired fic (I would say AU, but it's set in a Manchester college, not Rydell, and Greased Lightening has turned into a modded Corsa and the dance competition has become a Battle of the Bands) which is Nick Grimshaw/Harry (yes, I'm also listening to Radio 1 for the first time in... my life, actually, I've got a lot of ingrained snobbery about pop music that I'm working through). I still need a title for that and yes, I will take suggestions. The third fic is pure pwp and again AU where Louis and Zayn shoot vids for Corbin Fisher and are assigned for Harry's first shoot.
I still miss The Hour and want to write something for that. Something Bel/Freddie, probably, but I also want to write something for Lix if I can capture her because possibly I want to be her and possibly I just want her to domme me into an exhaused sated puddle. I'm also rewatching Leverage and marvelling at how many slamdunk excellent episodes were in season one.
Can't miss viewing continues to be Defiance. That show makes me so happy, though I have sadness at some of the events of last week.
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post to come out of that about shame and joy and perception I'm very interested in this, I feel that 1D in particular appears to attract such a lot of derision both fannishly and IRL in a way that nothing else I'm fannish about does. I got a bit of cat-calling at work for going to see Panic! last year, but the fandom is ancient and behemothic and I find it relatively easy to own my fannishness IRL (I came up through Star Trek cons, through ORGANISING Cons, so I've several decades of having no shame about what I love, but I'm definitely having some reactions to shame-from-fannish-spaces and I don't much like it. I'm not really even IN the fandom (I get Louis and Liam mixed up, I don't follow them on twitter and I'm picky to the point of not reading about the fic, mostly due to the Americanisms that pop in jarring the hell out of me) but I'm buggered if I want to be ashamed about (a)going to see them next year and (b)enjoying the fic that I do enjoy.
As to how it happened? I blame River & Lokte, almost entirely.
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1D definitely does - I got some of it through Adam fandom, and of course there's still that "RPS is icky and bad" attitude which shocks me when I run up against it, because I've chosen to surround myself with people who don't think that way. I spent a LOT of my life entirely ignorant of pop music and disdaining anything that the mainstream liked because that alone made it inherently worthless, and I'm doing a lot of re-examining of that.
It took me a long time not to get Liam and Niall mixed up, and I don't follow them on Twitter but I do have a list set up so I can go to check in on them (and Nick's clique) when I get the urge.
I am SO ENVIOUS of you going to see them next year. I wasn't expecting the announcement of dates and ticket booking to happen so fast and then it happened when I had no internet and GAH. You'll just have to have twice as good a time to enjoy it on my behalf as well, please!
It's interesting even seeing Americanisms in fic - it's really my first British fandom that's mostly populated by Americans because I never did the Harry Potter thing, and it does startle me when they happen. When it comes to the Nick/Harry stuff, it's not even just British, it's specifically northern British with a side of London and that's a vocabulary that I'm so comfortable in that it shakes me when something wrong slides into it.
I blame River more than Lokte. But in a loving way, since she's an awesome person and a fab beta.
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I also really loved The Hour, which I mainlined about a month ago.
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Oh, I am so sad that there will be no more of The Hour. I love them all so much. (But mostly Freddie and Bel and Lix. Oh, LIX.)
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