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Micro-fandoms FTW!
You know, I'd almost forgotten what it's like to poke around for fic and meta in a really tiny fandom. Prior to SGA, *most* of my fandoms were really tiny; every once in a while I'd luck into something like Invisible Man where there was a nice pile of fic catering to my particular needs, but for the most part, it was a matter of wandering down little Internet bunny trails and searching Google cache, clinging to every scrap of fic that I could find, reading gen and slash and het regardless of whether the pairing appealed to me, just because it was something. (And that's just the fandoms I could find any fic for; I remember one in which the only fic I could find AT ALL was four chapters of an unfinished gang-rape fic salvaged from Google cache, and the sad thing was, I downloaded it anyway and I probably still have it in my fic folder somewhere ...)
Don't get me wrong, being part of a big fandom and being able to cherry-pick from a smorgasbord of fic is really, really awesome; SGA fandom blew me away when I first encountered it, and has probably spoiled me utterly, in some ways, for future fannish experiences -- I've never had the experience of riding a fandom's popularity wave before. But ferreting out Wiseguy fic is reminding me that there's something really fun about the search for rarefic, too. It's a whole different kind of fanning from the thrill and energy of being in a big fandom -- but it's got its own kind of energy, its own kind of high when an evening of quality time with Google and linksurfing yields up a gem or two. SGA is almost an embarrassment of riches; there's never time to read everything, to look at all the art. The really little fandoms make you cherish every good story you find, makes you want to read it over and over again, and then go lavish love on the writer. It's ... well, it's Yuletide, basically; a very minimalist fanning experience, where finding just one other person who loves canon as much as you do, who sees in canon what you do, is a squee-worthy event.
Don't get me wrong, being part of a big fandom and being able to cherry-pick from a smorgasbord of fic is really, really awesome; SGA fandom blew me away when I first encountered it, and has probably spoiled me utterly, in some ways, for future fannish experiences -- I've never had the experience of riding a fandom's popularity wave before. But ferreting out Wiseguy fic is reminding me that there's something really fun about the search for rarefic, too. It's a whole different kind of fanning from the thrill and energy of being in a big fandom -- but it's got its own kind of energy, its own kind of high when an evening of quality time with Google and linksurfing yields up a gem or two. SGA is almost an embarrassment of riches; there's never time to read everything, to look at all the art. The really little fandoms make you cherish every good story you find, makes you want to read it over and over again, and then go lavish love on the writer. It's ... well, it's Yuletide, basically; a very minimalist fanning experience, where finding just one other person who loves canon as much as you do, who sees in canon what you do, is a squee-worthy event.