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!

Comments

[naye]

It makes me so glad to read such a happy post of yours! ♥

You know what? I still love our team. A LOT! It's different now that the show is gone, but - I find my creativity and my thoughts still stray their way, and that says it all, doesn't it?

♥♥♥

[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

whale*cough*verse*cough*

[naye]

Oh, the Whaleverse. Some of the most fun I've ever had in any fandom, ever. And we did have that idea for another story...! We'll see. Maybe after Japan!

[sholio]

I do too! I'm noodling around with a longer post on closed-canon fandoms, springboarding off my comment on your story, but I think there's a lot to be said for knowing "this is all there is", getting over the disappointment of never getting a scene like [x] or a proper explanation of [y], and then moving on to play in the (really very large) spaces that are left over.

After how long I've been in the fandom, the characters have really worked their way into my head; even when I wasn't feeling fannish about them, I still had trouble staying away from the fic. I get the feeling that even if I do eventually find something that makes me wander away, this will be a "go back and revisit" fandom for me. ^_^

(And someday -- though not for Big Bang, PLEASE NO *g* -- we ought to go back and do that Whaleverse Ronon story we were talking about!)

[naye]

And Atlantis is such a wonderful playground! All shiny and beautiful and so full of possibilities...! ♥

Oooh, the Ronon story! Yes! I really did love the imagery we had going for that one - and the whole concept, too, of getting to explore our Pegasus some more. Though I agree - Big Bang is a fairly gigantic commitment, and I'm happier just dabbling about on my own time, I think.