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Now I'm buying Wiseguy fanzines on ebay. I HAVE NO SHAME. *shakes tiny fist at ebay for being so very tempting*
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stargate_vegas is a new comm for Vegas 'verse fanworks -- fic, discussion, etc -- modded by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darkrosetiger and telesilla. There's very little there yet, but it would be really cool to see it grow, and there's so much potential in the episode for universe exploration and expansion. They welcome all pairings and ratings.
Unrelated to the above, I've been perusing various posts off Metafandom discussing fannish responsibility, the way that we interact with the things we fan on, the reasons why we move between fandoms. I keep starting to write posts and then discarding them ... I'm finding the discussion very interesting (and generally pretty polite considering how vehement people's opinions on it obviously are) and it's not a simple thing for me to suss out in myself. I do find that I'm a reader/viewer first, and a fan second -- in other words, it's love of the source material that brings me to fandom, not love of fandom that makes me go looking for things to fan on. (The fact that I'm currently fanning on something with next to no active fandom is ample evidence of that.) But I certainly can't discount the extent to which my own actions, as a fan and a reader, and my enjoyment and appreciation of the source are shaped by the way other people react to it. I'm deeply loving "Wiseguy" right now, but without a steady supply of fic, and other people to bounce off fannishly, I'm not really sure how long the deep obsession is going to last. I'm not sure if my SGA obsession would have gone on so long if there hadn't been such a huge fandom to play in. The fandom itself is enough to keep me at least peripherally involved, even now.
And, on the flip side of that coin, I don't think it's wise to completely ignore the fact that we're also shaped and influenced in subtle ways by what we read and watch. It does matter what you put into your brain and how deeply you let it live there. It's like eating junk food -- perfectly harmless and fine in moderation, and nobody else's business if you love it, no one else's right to judge you for it. But it's not really healthy in the long term to live on a steady diet of it. I really don't think I have that much control over my emotional responses to stuff ... when I love a show, it doesn't really matter if it's award-winning drama or the worst dreck known to mankind -- I still have that emotional response to it. But I'm starting to be wary of letting it work its way too deeply into my brainspace without really thinking about it first, if that makes any sense.
A random rec:
stargate_vegas is a new comm for Vegas 'verse fanworks -- fic, discussion, etc -- modded by darkrosetiger and telesilla. There's very little there yet, but it would be really cool to see it grow, and there's so much potential in the episode for universe exploration and expansion. They welcome all pairings and ratings.Unrelated to the above, I've been perusing various posts off Metafandom discussing fannish responsibility, the way that we interact with the things we fan on, the reasons why we move between fandoms. I keep starting to write posts and then discarding them ... I'm finding the discussion very interesting (and generally pretty polite considering how vehement people's opinions on it obviously are) and it's not a simple thing for me to suss out in myself. I do find that I'm a reader/viewer first, and a fan second -- in other words, it's love of the source material that brings me to fandom, not love of fandom that makes me go looking for things to fan on. (The fact that I'm currently fanning on something with next to no active fandom is ample evidence of that.) But I certainly can't discount the extent to which my own actions, as a fan and a reader, and my enjoyment and appreciation of the source are shaped by the way other people react to it. I'm deeply loving "Wiseguy" right now, but without a steady supply of fic, and other people to bounce off fannishly, I'm not really sure how long the deep obsession is going to last. I'm not sure if my SGA obsession would have gone on so long if there hadn't been such a huge fandom to play in. The fandom itself is enough to keep me at least peripherally involved, even now.
And, on the flip side of that coin, I don't think it's wise to completely ignore the fact that we're also shaped and influenced in subtle ways by what we read and watch. It does matter what you put into your brain and how deeply you let it live there. It's like eating junk food -- perfectly harmless and fine in moderation, and nobody else's business if you love it, no one else's right to judge you for it. But it's not really healthy in the long term to live on a steady diet of it. I really don't think I have that much control over my emotional responses to stuff ... when I love a show, it doesn't really matter if it's award-winning drama or the worst dreck known to mankind -- I still have that emotional response to it. But I'm starting to be wary of letting it work its way too deeply into my brainspace without really thinking about it first, if that makes any sense.