Thanks, RL. And Star Wars was your first fandom?
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 11, 2002 8:20:59 am PST #1442 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 8:40:59 am PST #1443 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
No, that's what makes it funny. I've still never watched the Star Wars movies-- I came to the SA as though it were original collaborative fiction, dizzyingly organized and controlled and bitingly strangely reflexive and self-parodic. It was shiny.
Then again, it wasn't a very strange-feeling position for me, because I'm very used to reading things and all of their references to other texts I don't know about, because I am, or at least was, what has been fondly called a pop culture nun.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 11, 2002 8:49:44 am PST #1444 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Ah. I'm like that with some things- I still haven't watched any X-files at all, and see yesterday's natter re. my knowledge of Jenifer Lopaz (none). And I read Star wars original Triology stuff with pleasure, despite not having see those movies, either. Phantom Meance is the only one I've seen.
DavidS - Dec 11, 2002 10:56:58 am PST #1445 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
SF Bay Guardian had a column about Slash
Steph L. - Dec 11, 2002 10:57:51 am PST #1446 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Okay, Hec. Really, I think that last post confirms that you ARE a tease.
Damn! You edited too quickly for me to snark!
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 11, 2002 11:02:25 am PST #1447 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
And quite positive, too. Which is nice- too many people look down thier noses.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:03:17 am PST #1448 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
SF Bay Guardian had a column about Slash
Well, that was annoying.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 11, 2002 11:04:16 am PST #1449 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
What annoyed you so much, RL? I stayed calm.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2002 11:07:14 am PST #1450 of 10000
brillig
I think it was the anal sex and cries of joy with the Kirk/Spock thing. That's where I stopped reading.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:08:20 am PST #1451 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't satisfying, and I'm always annoyed at the "by googling a phrase you now know about ALL the fandom" or "I talked to one person, and one group of people, and now I can speak authoritatively about everything wrt fic" methods of going about things. And more things; but I'm also just generally irritable, because my paper isn't going quite as well as I'd like, and my back hurts.