What's with all this "discussion"

[kellifer]

I have a pretty eclectic flist... people have linked to me for different things. I think because when it comes to fandoms, I'm pretty all over the place (commitment phobic? Me?? Nevah!) I do occasionally have people commenting on a story that they wished they could read it but it just isn't their fandom... or they have read it because I wrote it but it wasn't their fandom at all. Most interesting is the crossovers where people only know one of the fandoms but still read which I'm really chuffed about.

I guess I'm getting to a point where I'm going to start losing favourite writers out of the fandoms I'm still reading. It hasn't really happened to me before but I'm now coming up on fandom age of two years and it has started.

My question is... how do people feel when their favourite writers... move on?

I'm still writing in Stargate so I don't feel like I've "moved on" per se, but I have switched out from where I started I guess. I mostly wrote Sam/Jack (SG-1) when I began, not because it was an OTP but because I was writing stories for someone else. When I started writing stories for me... I obviously leaned more towards Daniel-centric pieces because he was my favourite character. I discovered slash and Jack/Daniel and was hooked.

Atlantis and John/Rodney felt like a natural progression, almost organic and I think that is where I picked up as a writer. The introduction of Ronon as a character had me more hooked on the show but I was still in love with SG-1... I was just... having a fling on the side.

I started dabbling in BSG and Firefly, and then found Supernatural and switched over to mostly gen, even in my Stargate stories. I still write the occasional pairing, but it's rarely the focus of the story or it is a requested fic, which I still love doing. I write for other people on the most part...

A favourite writer of mine has pretty much moved fandoms. She dabbles sometimes back in the pairing I love but she is mostly writing for a show I don't know. I feel like I should be able to read it and just treat it like original fiction (because I don't know anything canon) because I love her writing to pieces... but I can't do it. I admire and am flattered by people who do that for me but completely understand those that don't.

I haven't had any writers I like drop out of fandom completely yet, but I know it is only a matter of time.

So my question is this... have you had a writer you've regularly enjoyed move fandoms or move on completely? Do you read "outside" your fandom of choice for the writers you have enjoyed in the past? How do you feel when someone has moved on and you're not ready to let go yet?

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Am I really dumb to not know what popslash is? I keep seeing references to it...

*is still astounded at the volume of stuff she doesn't know*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Nope. Popslash is the slash genre for boyband slash, popular long ago... like, um, 1999, actually. (or maybe 2000? I never remember dates like this anymore). I know that, in actuality, the popslash fandom was much larger, but it always seemed like most of it was the people I'd known in comicsfandom.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Aaaaahh... *slaps forehead* That makes sense now that I think about it...

Boyband slash just makes me... scared. Heh.