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Hi, new people! :D
I know that I've picked up some new people following my journal in the wake of my plunge into A:tLA fandom (more on DW than LJ, I think). Actually, what I really wish right now is that I had more time to wallow in the squee and fun; I'm in the midst of a whirlwind summer of travel and family and health issues and more travel and more family and, to top it off, very little Internet. Woe! But in September, I'm looking forward to settling down and having more time to participate in discussions and write more fic and find new people to friend/follow, and just generally ... play, without having to take my play in tiny Internet-cafe snippets.
Anyway! If you're new here, or lurking, here's a quick orientation:
My main fandom for the last four years has been Stargate Atlantis. Though I've dabbled in a few other fandoms along the way (Supernatural, Wiseguy, Doctor Who/Torchwood, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece), lately A:tLA has EATEN ME WHOLE, and it looks like this is going to be my new shiny fandom for a while (though I still dabble in the old ones; my flist/circle is so overwhelmingly SGA-based that I doubt if I'll fall out of the fandom entirely, regardless, and I like being able to join in the squee and meta-talk for the various things that you all are into).
I crosspost fannish stuff and meta between LJ and DW. (My LJ and DW names are the same.) All the A:tLA posts, even the little ones that are normally something I would just toss at LJ, are fully crossposted because I know most of the A:tLA people are reading my journal over on DW. My personal journaling, however, is still on LJ, though there isn't really all that much of it (especially lately). I don't generally grant access to subscribers at DW because I just don't ever post anything locked over there -- I don't post locked stuff all that often even at LJ, and I'd need to set up access filters on DW to correspond to my LJ filters, and I'm lazy. So, in short, if you grant me access and I don't grant it back, it's not me being a fannish snob (I hope); it's just not how I'm using the blog right now.
Hmm. A little more about me fannishly: I like gen character relationships best (friends, siblings, parents & kids, teams, best enemies/rivals, found-family and actual family of all types), and when I do get interested in a pairing, it's usually canon pairings that I go for (though there are certain exceptions to that, and I also like threesomes/moresomes because they can be had without breaking up the canon pairs!). I'm a spoilerphobe. Hurt/comfort is my catnip, though I take it with tongue planted firmly in cheek a lot of the time. I hate bashing of characters, ships, actors and so forth; I suppose bashing is somewhat in the eye of the beholder, but I definitely tend more towards a "squee" mode of fanning, I guess, and vitriolic negativity makes me sad. On the other hand, I really love that my flist/circle are very open towards discussing issues of representation, misogyny, racism and other *fails in the stuff we fan on, even if I occasionally have to minimize my involvement in those discussions when I'm in the first flush of fan-squee. But I love that I've never felt like we can't talk about that stuff around here.
Anyway, that's me! Feel free to say hi if you like. Or not.
Anyway! If you're new here, or lurking, here's a quick orientation:
My main fandom for the last four years has been Stargate Atlantis. Though I've dabbled in a few other fandoms along the way (Supernatural, Wiseguy, Doctor Who/Torchwood, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece), lately A:tLA has EATEN ME WHOLE, and it looks like this is going to be my new shiny fandom for a while (though I still dabble in the old ones; my flist/circle is so overwhelmingly SGA-based that I doubt if I'll fall out of the fandom entirely, regardless, and I like being able to join in the squee and meta-talk for the various things that you all are into).
I crosspost fannish stuff and meta between LJ and DW. (My LJ and DW names are the same.) All the A:tLA posts, even the little ones that are normally something I would just toss at LJ, are fully crossposted because I know most of the A:tLA people are reading my journal over on DW. My personal journaling, however, is still on LJ, though there isn't really all that much of it (especially lately). I don't generally grant access to subscribers at DW because I just don't ever post anything locked over there -- I don't post locked stuff all that often even at LJ, and I'd need to set up access filters on DW to correspond to my LJ filters, and I'm lazy. So, in short, if you grant me access and I don't grant it back, it's not me being a fannish snob (I hope); it's just not how I'm using the blog right now.
Hmm. A little more about me fannishly: I like gen character relationships best (friends, siblings, parents & kids, teams, best enemies/rivals, found-family and actual family of all types), and when I do get interested in a pairing, it's usually canon pairings that I go for (though there are certain exceptions to that, and I also like threesomes/moresomes because they can be had without breaking up the canon pairs!). I'm a spoilerphobe. Hurt/comfort is my catnip, though I take it with tongue planted firmly in cheek a lot of the time. I hate bashing of characters, ships, actors and so forth; I suppose bashing is somewhat in the eye of the beholder, but I definitely tend more towards a "squee" mode of fanning, I guess, and vitriolic negativity makes me sad. On the other hand, I really love that my flist/circle are very open towards discussing issues of representation, misogyny, racism and other *fails in the stuff we fan on, even if I occasionally have to minimize my involvement in those discussions when I'm in the first flush of fan-squee. But I love that I've never felt like we can't talk about that stuff around here.
Anyway, that's me! Feel free to say hi if you like. Or not.
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Summary: I used to be in Iron Man, and I was sort of watching A:TLA half-assedly on Netflix Watch Instantly, and there was that episode in the second season with Zuko and Iroh cutting off their hair together? And oh my God, my heart caved in.
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Mmm, that scene ... yes. Though I think that it was the period in second season from "Blind Bandit" to "Bitter Work" (we watched them all in a batch) that really made my heart flip and cave and crash, and took me from enjoying the series to being utterly gone for it. In general, though, I adore how the writers took the "bad guys" and developed them with just as much richness and depth as the "good guys" -- including Iroh and Zuko's obvious love and respect for each other, which is evident from their first couple of episodes.
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The first season of AtlA has been sitting on my shelf for a year because the screencaps looked very shiny - maybe one of these days I'll get around to actually watching it. ;)
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I think that FMA hasn't really pulled me to write it because I'm so satisfied with the series as it is! However, now that I'm stepping away from SGA a little bit and getting back into writing for animated fandoms (... it's been the better part of a decade since I was in anime fandom), I may be tempted over to the FMA side ... and I bet it qualifies for Yuletide, come to think of it ...!
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I wouldn't be surprised at an A:TLA and FMA fannish crossover. Beyond the 'pretty men playing with fire' aspect, there's the 'fixing a world gone broken' angle, the fact both series have disabled characters written respectfully, the way both series deal with very adult topics (long wars, genocide, parents gone in nasty ways, etc) while still being light emotionally overall.
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(And your mention of "pretty men playing with fire" makes me suddenly want to do a multifandom characters-who-fight-with-fire vid! Aside from Roy and the various firebenders on A:tLA, there's also Ace on One Piece, and I'm sure I can come up with some others if I think awhile.)
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What is it now, two works in progress on my hard drive right when I lose my summer free time? And one of them is a 'what happened to Minor Character?' plot bunny that will. not. let. go.
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And I need to read your FMA stuff, too! So much fic, so little time ...
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I'm thoroughly enjoying your A:tLA squee and meta and stuff. I don't write much for A:tLA myself, (well, granted I haven't been writing much fannish stuff at all since I started focusing on getting original stories out there in paying markets >.> ) but it's still definitely one of my fave fandoms.
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Really? *tilts head* I don't think I've ever seen you mention it on here...
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*wanders off to read discussions*
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*edited for a little bit of clarity and honesty. :)
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And, yay! I hope you enjoy Avatar! :)
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I'm so eager for that delivery to arrive, it's ridiculous. I even went and spoiled myself by reading episode summaries on wikipedia. (Well, I spoiled myself reading your posts and fics anyway. Then again, finding new fandoms via fanfic is a tried and true method for me. lol)
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I'm slowly growing into the anima/manga trend...my littlest sister pulled me into it. I've seen so far only the one episode of "Full Metal Alchemist" (the first one) and absolutely adored it. Care to recommend anything for a beginner in this kind of genre?
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And as a sidenote, I shall remark that I will be TERRIBLY UNHAPPY if you leave SGA. You're one of my most favorite writers in the series, and I would cry if you left. :(
[As another sidenote, I think you did very well on your introduction above. :D]