On my inner fandommer in general
Are you a list bitch?
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With that as a lead in, I have another little essay-type-thingie that I couldn't stop myself from writing.
( An explanation for my place in fandom )
2002-09-25
Are you a list bitch?
brought to you by Quizilla
With that as a lead in, I have another little essay-type-thingie that I couldn't stop myself from writing.
( An explanation for my place in fandom )
whine
You know that commercial where this guy clicks on a link and a screen comes up that says "Congratulations: You have reached the end of the internet, please go back to the begining and start again."?
That's me.
The sheer number of fanfics I've read over the last... five? years is vomit worthy. I read, and read, and read, and read until I quite litterally hit the end of a fandom. When it gets to the point where all I'm doing is waiting for my favorite WIP's or authors to post something new I start to get restless.
I quite litterally read *thousands* of X-Files fics from the middle of season 4 (when I started watching) and season 6. The sheer amount of time I spent on that fandom is phenominal. Think four hours a day on average. Quite frankly, the only reason I ever looked further than X-Files is because I'd read everything worth reading and it was no longer taking up more than a half-hour to check for updates.
From there I drifted a bit, spending a month or two in Sailor Moon, picking up some good authors and learning that it's not worth the amount of time I spend wading through the massive amounts of sheer *crap* that abounds in anime fandoms. A better fandom was Gargoyles, one author in particular who I still compulsively read and re-read.
Eventually I stumbled onto X-Men fanfic. I spent a little over a year there, gathering bookmarks, favorite authors and once again reading massive amounts of fanfiction. Before long I reached the point where I'd read everything and was checking updates again. So, off to look for another fandom.
I spent some time looking round, but never really settling in any one fandom. The place I stayed longest during that period was Austen.com during my classic books period. I managed to find the one and only archive dedicated to Beekeeper's Apprentice fanfic, The Hive.
Finally I started looking at Harry Potter Fanfiction. I was absolutely thrilled to find Fanfiction Alley. I spent three months reading through almost everything in the Alley. I was about ready to move on, when my baby sister talked me into giving Gundam Wing slash a try. Not thrilled with Gundam, I compromised and read my first piece of slash after avoiding it throughout all of the Alley. All I will say is thank you Khirsah for writhing Unlikely Heroes. It changed my reading, and possibly my lifestyle, forever.
I'd discovered slash, so I went back and read all the Harry Potter slash fics I'd skipped over on my first trip through Fanfiction Alley. It didn't take me long, and by this time a year ago I had read every single story in the Fiction Alley archive. I had the feeling that this could be my new big fandom, the new X-Files so to speak, so I started poking around a bit. Read all the Harry/Draco (also minorities like Neville/Percy and Fred/George) fanfic I could get my hands on. Eventually, at the Potter Slash Archive I stumbled across Telanu's Tea Series and JayKay's version of Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. This introduced me to my favorite pairing Harry/Snape. Now, after almost six months of Harry/Snape (and occasional re-excursions to Harry/Draco when fics run low) I've about reached the end of the fandom. I'm once again reduced to spending a mere twenty minutes or so checking on updates. I don't know where else to go from here.
In attempts to keep myself from migrating yet again I've even devoted some of my time to reading StarWars(ObiWan/QuiGon) and Smallville(Clark/Lex) fics to space things out. But to no avail. I'm hitting the end of StarWars and Smallville fics as well.
At the moment I'm spending an average of thirty minutes to checking updates in all fandoms before spending annother thirty minutes or so reading RPS and the occasional LotR fics, but those seem to be running out as well.
So, what's the result of the last five years of traveling the length and breath of many ficdoms? A killer bookmark list, several hundred thousand short to novel length fics added to my reading resume, and a pretty good understanding of my fandoms.
And now, as I feel myself reaching the 'updates only' point in my fandoms yet again, all I can say is I feel I am that commercial.
I have reached the end of the internet.
And I mourn the lack of it.
That's me.
The sheer number of fanfics I've read over the last... five? years is vomit worthy. I read, and read, and read, and read until I quite litterally hit the end of a fandom. When it gets to the point where all I'm doing is waiting for my favorite WIP's or authors to post something new I start to get restless.
I quite litterally read *thousands* of X-Files fics from the middle of season 4 (when I started watching) and season 6. The sheer amount of time I spent on that fandom is phenominal. Think four hours a day on average. Quite frankly, the only reason I ever looked further than X-Files is because I'd read everything worth reading and it was no longer taking up more than a half-hour to check for updates.
From there I drifted a bit, spending a month or two in Sailor Moon, picking up some good authors and learning that it's not worth the amount of time I spend wading through the massive amounts of sheer *crap* that abounds in anime fandoms. A better fandom was Gargoyles, one author in particular who I still compulsively read and re-read.
Eventually I stumbled onto X-Men fanfic. I spent a little over a year there, gathering bookmarks, favorite authors and once again reading massive amounts of fanfiction. Before long I reached the point where I'd read everything and was checking updates again. So, off to look for another fandom.
I spent some time looking round, but never really settling in any one fandom. The place I stayed longest during that period was Austen.com during my classic books period. I managed to find the one and only archive dedicated to Beekeeper's Apprentice fanfic, The Hive.
Finally I started looking at Harry Potter Fanfiction. I was absolutely thrilled to find Fanfiction Alley. I spent three months reading through almost everything in the Alley. I was about ready to move on, when my baby sister talked me into giving Gundam Wing slash a try. Not thrilled with Gundam, I compromised and read my first piece of slash after avoiding it throughout all of the Alley. All I will say is thank you Khirsah for writhing Unlikely Heroes. It changed my reading, and possibly my lifestyle, forever.
I'd discovered slash, so I went back and read all the Harry Potter slash fics I'd skipped over on my first trip through Fanfiction Alley. It didn't take me long, and by this time a year ago I had read every single story in the Fiction Alley archive. I had the feeling that this could be my new big fandom, the new X-Files so to speak, so I started poking around a bit. Read all the Harry/Draco (also minorities like Neville/Percy and Fred/George) fanfic I could get my hands on. Eventually, at the Potter Slash Archive I stumbled across Telanu's Tea Series and JayKay's version of Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. This introduced me to my favorite pairing Harry/Snape. Now, after almost six months of Harry/Snape (and occasional re-excursions to Harry/Draco when fics run low) I've about reached the end of the fandom. I'm once again reduced to spending a mere twenty minutes or so checking on updates. I don't know where else to go from here.
In attempts to keep myself from migrating yet again I've even devoted some of my time to reading StarWars(ObiWan/QuiGon) and Smallville(Clark/Lex) fics to space things out. But to no avail. I'm hitting the end of StarWars and Smallville fics as well.
At the moment I'm spending an average of thirty minutes to checking updates in all fandoms before spending annother thirty minutes or so reading RPS and the occasional LotR fics, but those seem to be running out as well.
So, what's the result of the last five years of traveling the length and breath of many ficdoms? A killer bookmark list, several hundred thousand short to novel length fics added to my reading resume, and a pretty good understanding of my fandoms.
And now, as I feel myself reaching the 'updates only' point in my fandoms yet again, all I can say is I feel I am that commercial.
I have reached the end of the internet.
And I mourn the lack of it.