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Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
I was asked to talk about Farscape, Doctor Who and Marvel comics.
1. This is going to sound a bit...woo, maybe, but dreams. I caught the tail end of the first showing of The Peacekeeper Wars on the Sci-Fi channel and was weirded out by the whole thing. I thought it was bizarre and slightly unappealing, and didn't seek out any more Farscape. Fast forward a bit, and I'm having vivid recurring dreams about it. So, I started watching the reruns. And damn, I fell hard.Still don't like The Peacekeeper Wars, though.
2. I think I'll always love it, though I don't feel much of a connection with the fandom. I have a really odd relationship with this show, basically. But it'll always have a place in my heart, no doubt.
3. Oooh. Um. Nerve/The Hidden Memory, Won't Get Fooled Again, Look at the Princess...
4. I have written some fanfic and made icons, but that's really it.
5. It's unfortunately a bit late for it, though I suppose people could always discover it and love it.
1. I moved in with my boyfriend -- a second-generation Whovian -- and his family in 2005. Whenever it was on, the family gathered around with specially prepared snacks and no talking was allowed. I watched it grudgingly at first, then with some interest, then with increasing attention, but I didn't consider myself a fan. Then I saw this (the last part of the clip) and, uh, had to stop myself from bawling in front of everyone. Something clicked in my head, and now I'm sitting here wearing my organic bicardial shirt, collection of Big Finish audios on my hard drive, and a model TARDIS in my bedroom.
2. Right now, it's a pretty big deal to me, but who knows what happens with fandoms? I doubt that I'll ever go "ick, Doctor Who, I hate that crap" though.
3. From the new series, Utopia and Midnight stick in my mind, because they both made my heart rate literally double, and because they've just...gotten embedded in my head, in the way some things do. Shamefully, I've not watched enough old series stuff for one of them to do that, but I love anything with the Delgado Master, and I have a major soft spot for Sarah Jane Smith. I have a bizarre attachment to Zagreus (a Big Finish audio) even though everyone else seems to hate it; it might just be that it got me through a cross-Atlantic flight, but I think there's something special about that story, and I adore the 8th Doctor and Charley together.
4. I'm dipping my toes into it. I have a few fanfics sitting there, forlorn and unfinished. I want to learn to vid because of this fandom.
5. Hells to the yeah! This is one of the fandoms I actively pimp, mostly because I like running my mouth off about it.
1. Just like my boyfriend is a second-generation Whovian, I'm a second-generation Marvelite. My dad would sign his letters "Galactus be with you", so that should tell you something. When I learned to read, one of the first things I got my hands on were my dad's comics, and people like Dr. Doom and Uatu the Watcher were more familiar to me than Zeus or Napoleon. I started off on the Fantastic Four and Jim Starlin's 'cosmic' stuff, then discovered the X-Men and Dr. Strange on my own. After moving to America, I went HOLY CRAP THERE'S AN X-MEN CARTOON?! and glued myself to the screen whenever it was on. The theme song is still one of those automatic nostalgia triggers.
2. Oh, I'm in this for life. I drift in an out of fandom proper, and sometimes I won't buy comics for years, but...this is just part of my childhood and culture, really, and it's impossible to imagine myself not getting excited over new Marvel stuff. I have very much drifted away from X-Men at the moment, but I figure that might correct itself in ten, fifteen years or so when (hopefully) they'll start to drift back to their 'iconic' forms and stop, well, sucking. Sorry, X-fans, but I think the last decade drove a stake through the heart of the team I loved. Thankfully, comic book characters are like Discworld vampires, and tend to bounce back. Holy crap, get me talking in terms of decades.
3. ...fffff. How to pick from a legacy that frickin' huge?
Okay. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko together, in any form, but especially on Dr. Strange. Jim Starlin writing Warlock and Thanosomg OTP. Claremont's first run on X-Men. Claremont and Frank Miller with Wolverine. Larry Hama writing Wolverine and Sabretooth. God Loves, Man Kills. Anytime Dr. Doom gets to have several pages to himself.
4. I used to be really active. I created the first Sabretooth (*cough*hadacrushonhim*cough*) mailing list, back in the dawn of time. I wrote fanfic. I spent stupid amounts of time scanning my collection to put up on my dinky Geocities websites. Now, not so much, since I was mostly hanging out in X-fandom, and the joy has largely gone out of that for me. I still write Thanos and Dr. Strange now and then, because they interest me, but I tend to keep it to myself.
5. I dunno. I think that superhero comics are pretty much an acquired taste, and not everyone needs to acquire it. I'd like a more active non-X-Men Marvel fandom, though.
astrogirl2Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
I was asked to talk about Farscape, Doctor Who and Marvel comics.
1. This is going to sound a bit...woo, maybe, but dreams. I caught the tail end of the first showing of The Peacekeeper Wars on the Sci-Fi channel and was weirded out by the whole thing. I thought it was bizarre and slightly unappealing, and didn't seek out any more Farscape. Fast forward a bit, and I'm having vivid recurring dreams about it. So, I started watching the reruns. And damn, I fell hard.
2. I think I'll always love it, though I don't feel much of a connection with the fandom. I have a really odd relationship with this show, basically. But it'll always have a place in my heart, no doubt.
3. Oooh. Um. Nerve/The Hidden Memory, Won't Get Fooled Again, Look at the Princess...
4. I have written some fanfic and made icons, but that's really it.
5. It's unfortunately a bit late for it, though I suppose people could always discover it and love it.
1. I moved in with my boyfriend -- a second-generation Whovian -- and his family in 2005. Whenever it was on, the family gathered around with specially prepared snacks and no talking was allowed. I watched it grudgingly at first, then with some interest, then with increasing attention, but I didn't consider myself a fan. Then I saw this (the last part of the clip) and, uh, had to stop myself from bawling in front of everyone. Something clicked in my head, and now I'm sitting here wearing my organic bicardial shirt, collection of Big Finish audios on my hard drive, and a model TARDIS in my bedroom.
2. Right now, it's a pretty big deal to me, but who knows what happens with fandoms? I doubt that I'll ever go "ick, Doctor Who, I hate that crap" though.
3. From the new series, Utopia and Midnight stick in my mind, because they both made my heart rate literally double, and because they've just...gotten embedded in my head, in the way some things do. Shamefully, I've not watched enough old series stuff for one of them to do that, but I love anything with the Delgado Master, and I have a major soft spot for Sarah Jane Smith. I have a bizarre attachment to Zagreus (a Big Finish audio) even though everyone else seems to hate it; it might just be that it got me through a cross-Atlantic flight, but I think there's something special about that story, and I adore the 8th Doctor and Charley together.
4. I'm dipping my toes into it. I have a few fanfics sitting there, forlorn and unfinished. I want to learn to vid because of this fandom.
5. Hells to the yeah! This is one of the fandoms I actively pimp, mostly because I like running my mouth off about it.
1. Just like my boyfriend is a second-generation Whovian, I'm a second-generation Marvelite. My dad would sign his letters "Galactus be with you", so that should tell you something. When I learned to read, one of the first things I got my hands on were my dad's comics, and people like Dr. Doom and Uatu the Watcher were more familiar to me than Zeus or Napoleon. I started off on the Fantastic Four and Jim Starlin's 'cosmic' stuff, then discovered the X-Men and Dr. Strange on my own. After moving to America, I went HOLY CRAP THERE'S AN X-MEN CARTOON?! and glued myself to the screen whenever it was on. The theme song is still one of those automatic nostalgia triggers.
2. Oh, I'm in this for life. I drift in an out of fandom proper, and sometimes I won't buy comics for years, but...this is just part of my childhood and culture, really, and it's impossible to imagine myself not getting excited over new Marvel stuff. I have very much drifted away from X-Men at the moment, but I figure that might correct itself in ten, fifteen years or so when (hopefully) they'll start to drift back to their 'iconic' forms and stop, well, sucking. Sorry, X-fans, but I think the last decade drove a stake through the heart of the team I loved. Thankfully, comic book characters are like Discworld vampires, and tend to bounce back. Holy crap, get me talking in terms of decades.
3. ...fffff. How to pick from a legacy that frickin' huge?
Okay. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko together, in any form, but especially on Dr. Strange. Jim Starlin writing Warlock and Thanos
4. I used to be really active. I created the first Sabretooth (*cough*hadacrushonhim*cough*) mailing list, back in the dawn of time. I wrote fanfic. I spent stupid amounts of time scanning my collection to put up on my dinky Geocities websites. Now, not so much, since I was mostly hanging out in X-fandom, and the joy has largely gone out of that for me. I still write Thanos and Dr. Strange now and then, because they interest me, but I tend to keep it to myself.
5. I dunno. I think that superhero comics are pretty much an acquired taste, and not everyone needs to acquire it. I'd like a more active non-X-Men Marvel fandom, though.
