silly space show won't leave me alone

[sholio]

oh god, I'm back in love with SGA and it's worse than ever, help. XD Apparently, three months (give or take a bit) is enough time to get over the things I needed to get over and make peace with the things that made me frustrated and hurt and angry with both canon and fandom. I've never had a fandom get its hooks into me like this before; I've fanned on a lot of shows, books and comics over the years, but usually the really intensive fannish period (writing fic and reading a lot of it) lasts only a few months. But it's been almost exactly three years now since I got into SGA, and while there have definitely been ups and downs during that time, I seem to be in the midst of an "up".

According to the results of my poll, it looks like the vast majority of my f'list is sticking around as well, and that makes me happy too. (Obviously, I won't kick you out if you don't watch the show anymore! I do watch, read and discuss other things, too. But I'm back in my happy SGA place again, for now.)

I'm reccing John & Rodney friendship at stargateficrec this month, and signed up to rec hurt/comfort over there next month. I also caved and signed up for team_sga's AU Team Fest (I'll be doing gen for this one) -- and it looks like they still have a few open slots if anyone is interested! My sticksandsnark fic is done and polished and ready to post when that goes live. And sga_genficathon is cranking along happily. (Both that and team_sga are posting in May. It will be a nice month for fic!) And I'm currently on the fence about signing up for sgabigbang when signups go live (they haven't yet), leaning weakly towards the "yes" side right now.

I also have a request to make, and I don't think it's a particularly big one. I know there are quite a few people on my f'list who have fallen out with the show, or various aspects of the show, for various reasons. Of course I respect your right to feel that way, and of course you can post whatever you like in your own journal or elsewhere and I certainly won't think less of you for it, but when you're here, please don't harsh on my affection for it (i.e. please don't tell me how much you hate it, how much you hate character Y or writer Z or whatever), and please don't blame or insult your fellow fans for being on the wrong "side", either. The fact that I'm asking you to be good to the show while you're here does NOT mean that it's open season on everyone who has grievances with it. My blog, my rules.

Having said that, I have to get up in *checks* oh hell, five and a half hours, so I believe it's time for bed!

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[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* I was persuaded to sign-up for team_sga too, because there was a PIRATES!!!! prompt and lo, I am weak :)

So glad you've got the happy back. My plan for the next few months is to potter and enjoy myself - there's some SGA stuff in the works along with other fannish pursuits *coughSPNcough* and it's actually nice to have the closed canon so that I can contemplate and like you, rediscover why I watched in the first place. All the enthusiasm is bubbling away underneath, but right now, it's nice being mellow :) I'm definitely going to enjoy your 'up' posts now you're feeling bouncier!

That's quite the list of fics! I have a timetable at the moment, so I'm working on something for an SGA Gen fanzine while I wait for some kind of clue about my sga_genficathon prompt. May is going to be AWESOME!

[sholio]

There cannot be too many pirate AUs. *nods*

I think that just disengaging from the intense emotions of the fandom for a couple of months helped a lot, as well as thinking about the show in terms of other closed-canon fandoms I've had before. I've fanned on a lot of shows and movies and anime that would have been massively disappointing if I hadn't known "that's all there is, they're never going to do this cool thing or explain that mystery over there" and then worked from that point onwards. (There's one manga, in fact, that converted me to being a fan with the very last installment ... out of something like 300. Granted, I hadn't actually read all of those prior to converting to the fan-love, but if it was still ongoing, I doubt if I'd enjoy it nearly as much; instead I look back on it with a lot of fondness.)

[naye]

Oooh, what manga is this? I am curious!

[sholio]

Hee! It's Yu-Gi-Oh. I talked about it a little bit here at Emilie's LJ, some years back. I liked the ending enough that it made me re-evaluate the rest of the series in a more positive light -- not that I'd *hated* it, certainly, but it didn't really grab me until the emotional intensity of the last part of the final arc got to me.