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I'm pretty sure I've touched on this subject before but I'm just thinking about it lately because while I've had a number of people join me of late (hullo new people!) I've also had a spate of people dropping me off their flist.
You always know why, because interests diverge and fandoms migrate but I just wonder how people feel when an author they like moves on or stops altogether.
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spn_j2_bigbang and what to write for it. I have had a couple of ideas and I'm left wondering what people expect me to write and what will give me the best chance to finish and the most pleasure.
On the flist migrations, I'd say I'm seeing the back of quite a few Stargate people. They joined up for my teamfic or my John/Rodney, Jack/Daniel fare, I totally understand that. I feel bad when I see someone pop up on my flist after having made their way through those stories and there's a tiny twinge of guilt that they're not likely to get much new out of me anytime soon. Believe me, I know the feeling. I'm often late to fandoms (hello Buffy and Gilmore Girls) and so make my way through stories written by people that just aren't writing in that fandom anymore.
I haven't left it behind completely. I certainly still read it (and will get back to regularly reccing it, ugh I am SO BEHIND!!) and I'm actually writing John/Rodney now for Sweet Charity but I guess the feeling I get sometimes with Stargate fiction is that anything I want to write has been written before, and most probably by someone much better than me.
I mean I get it, I really do, as I watch some of my favourite people immerse themselves in Merlin fic and I haven't watched a single ep yet. Yes, some very kind and lovely souls have offered to be my dealers (hee...) and if Aussie Teev doesn't get their act together and start showing this damn thing instead of giving us months of teasers then I probably will take them up on it but I also feel that momentary flicker of panic, the no, don't leave me yet.
I'm sure people that friend me now with the hopes of shaking some more Stargate fic loose probably feel the same.
I also feel bad that I don't write as much as I used to. I hate that it feels like the inevitable slow down after the first flush of excitement and I hope it's not just because I'm running out of ideas. My job is vastly different. I honestly 12 months ago had a job where I basically for three weeks out of four had nothing to do except filing and tooling around on the internet. To stave off boredom or perhaps killing my coworkers with a stapler I wrote at work, I wrote alot and I just don't anymore.
So I've got a couple of questions. How do you feel when someone you've been reading regularly moves off to something different? Why do you change fandoms? (New shiny/show stops/you're the only one left at the party)
If I had my way of course, everyone would be writing me Dean/Rory, SPN schmoo, Stargate team Jack/Daniel domesticfutureapocafic.
But that's just me.
And now the poll. The outcome of this poll won't guarantee what I'm writing for Big Bang because who knows, I might end up writing something completely different, but it may help me actually make a damn decision already...
[Poll #1335236]
You always know why, because interests diverge and fandoms migrate but I just wonder how people feel when an author they like moves on or stops altogether.
I guess this is also prompted by my internal struggle about
spn_j2_bigbang and what to write for it. I have had a couple of ideas and I'm left wondering what people expect me to write and what will give me the best chance to finish and the most pleasure.On the flist migrations, I'd say I'm seeing the back of quite a few Stargate people. They joined up for my teamfic or my John/Rodney, Jack/Daniel fare, I totally understand that. I feel bad when I see someone pop up on my flist after having made their way through those stories and there's a tiny twinge of guilt that they're not likely to get much new out of me anytime soon. Believe me, I know the feeling. I'm often late to fandoms (hello Buffy and Gilmore Girls) and so make my way through stories written by people that just aren't writing in that fandom anymore.
I haven't left it behind completely. I certainly still read it (and will get back to regularly reccing it, ugh I am SO BEHIND!!) and I'm actually writing John/Rodney now for Sweet Charity but I guess the feeling I get sometimes with Stargate fiction is that anything I want to write has been written before, and most probably by someone much better than me.
I mean I get it, I really do, as I watch some of my favourite people immerse themselves in Merlin fic and I haven't watched a single ep yet. Yes, some very kind and lovely souls have offered to be my dealers (hee...) and if Aussie Teev doesn't get their act together and start showing this damn thing instead of giving us months of teasers then I probably will take them up on it but I also feel that momentary flicker of panic, the no, don't leave me yet.
I'm sure people that friend me now with the hopes of shaking some more Stargate fic loose probably feel the same.
I also feel bad that I don't write as much as I used to. I hate that it feels like the inevitable slow down after the first flush of excitement and I hope it's not just because I'm running out of ideas. My job is vastly different. I honestly 12 months ago had a job where I basically for three weeks out of four had nothing to do except filing and tooling around on the internet. To stave off boredom or perhaps killing my coworkers with a stapler I wrote at work, I wrote alot and I just don't anymore.
So I've got a couple of questions. How do you feel when someone you've been reading regularly moves off to something different? Why do you change fandoms? (New shiny/show stops/you're the only one left at the party)
If I had my way of course, everyone would be writing me Dean/Rory, SPN schmoo, Stargate team Jack/Daniel domesticfutureapocafic.
But that's just me.
And now the poll. The outcome of this poll won't guarantee what I'm writing for Big Bang because who knows, I might end up writing something completely different, but it may help me actually make a damn decision already...
[Poll #1335236]
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I don't friend just for fandom anymore and I try to have a relationship (I mean this in the most casual of ways) with everyone on my flist. This is easy for me because my flist is small. I also track a whole heap of journals: stalking.
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Hmmmm. I'm thinking of a word. It begins with "b" and ends in "oth."
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I also seem to be going the Merlin way, too. D: Haven't written anything, but I've seen the show and read some fics. I'm thiiiis close to actually shipping Merlin/Arthur, and I've never shipped anything before in my life. Well, except for Westley/Buttercup, but that totally doesn't count. There is no way you can not ship Westley/Buttercup. Everyone in the world ships Westley/Buttercup. Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Communists, Libertarians, Green Party, Crazy People--it crosses party lines. Cows in Montana ship Westley/Buttercup. Sheep in Wales ship Westley/Buttercup. Horses in New Zealand ship Westley/Buttercup. And in Soviet Russia, Westley/Buttercup ships YOU.
Um, sorry. Bit of a tangent, that one.
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... you know I love it rite?
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And I totally get what you're saying about fic and moving on and everything. For instance, I hadn't written Dean/Jo in nine months and at Christmas when I was doing cards, I got a couple of prompts specifically for that pairing. And I wrote them, but they were vastly AU, because both the canon and I have moved on.
To answer your questions: it depends on the author. When it's someone I've become friends with, I will read just about anything they write, regardless of the fandom. If it's someone I've just been following for the fic, I'll probably keep them on the flist at least for a while (after all, sometimes people just dabble in other fandoms for a bit and come back to the primary fandom), but when it becomes obvious they've moved on completely, it's time to let go.
As for why I change fandoms, well, it depends. I used to be extremely fandom monogamous (I went LotR > Firefly > X-Men Movies > SPN with great wide spaces between my involvement in each). Now, I am more open to reading (and even writing) other fandoms. Part of it is because of my love of crossovers, but it's also due to the fen I hang out with; it's much harder to stay out of multifandom love when you're chatting constantly with people who love other things besides SPN.
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I'm sure I will love Merlin but there's that tiny part of me that's worried that I won't feel fannish about it, which happens.
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I'm definitely an SPN gen writer at heart and I really *should* go with my gut here and write the Mary story.
I may need some crash-test readers for the ending I'm thinking about though because there may just be villagers and pitchforks and fire in my future.
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If I have a relationship of some sort with a writer who has moved on to another fandom, I'll keep them around. If not, less likely.
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OF COURSE IT WILL HAPPEN LIKE THAT!!
You know me too well... hehehee...
I can't find my Lost My Shoe Sam icon but I was going to say that that pout would be saved for Sam's "I lost my Deeeeeeean" face.
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Honestly, I still have some in me, I'm sure. There's a couple that I've started that I would like to dust off, especially the Jack coming back to claim his Daniel from Cameron story but... *handwaves*
Once I start reccing again properly I won't feel so bad. :)
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As for when a writer moves off to something different....well, most of the time, I don't care, as a good writer will get me to read practically any fandom (there have been a few fandoms that have left me totally cold...enough that I won't even read in them, but most fandoms I'll read even if I'm not really a *fan*.)
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I am definitely tempted with the amount of Merlin fic popping up from some of my favourite writers but I know I will watch the show eventually so I'm almost saving it I guess.
Sometimes though I will read something even though I have no knowledge and just view it the same as I would an original fic. Sometimes you feel like you're starting halfway through an act but the writers I prefer are brilliant at worldbuilding and so you get a sense of place and time and character even if you're not familiar with the canon.
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I'm definitely the same in theory but I just have this trouble with actually removing people from my flist. I think I still have a few people linked that I'd only linked to for fic and had never interacted with who are wholly and soully in bandom now which is a landscape foreign unto me. :)
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I made my little apoca-loving heart beat triple time.
Basically, head to Las Vegas if you want electricity for more than 3 days after everyone disappears... :)
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;)
That show where all the people disappeared was creepy. And I got more than a little verklempt when they talked about all the housebound pets that would starve to death eventually, or become cannibals and eat each other.
No!
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Oh, and by the by, what ever happened to UCP Ficathon? Hmmm?
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Never leeeeeave me!
Oh, and it's coming. Yes, yes it is. As soon as I... LOOK OVER THERE!!
*runs*
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Write what you want to write, what makes you inspired, don't feel guilty if you don't kill yorself trying to make someone else happy.
However, professional writers whose books I've actually bought and paid for who give up in the middle of a series and move on to something else are *the Devil*. I've paid your rent damnit, finish the damn sequence!
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Google Project free tv, use the first link, it's some long extended thing. Under tv shows you should find a bazillion links to merlin. Awesome show, just finished watching it myself.
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