The Fannish Manifesto that was eaten by bears.
byI find fandom a lot more hilarious than most people probably know. Mostly because that would end in wank. Speaking of wank, with the exception of personal attacks*, I find it hilarious. When I see certain people (yes, even those on my flist) complaining about non-personal attack wank, I just laugh and laugh and roll my eyes. I am a bad person. I also laugh at the naysayers that say x fandom is dead. Hello, have you see Starsky and Hutch or the Trek fandoms or The Sentinal or...
Things I don't like about fandom include fen: character, actor, OTP, fandom creator, and/or fanfic author fen. My problem stems from the fact that fen can not admit that their obsession can sometimes suck, like a giant sucking thing. I've practically left Veronica Mars fandom because of Veronica/Logan and/or Logan fen. It scares me that the younger fandoms (Stargate: Atlantis, Veronica Mars, Battlestart Galactica, Supernatural, etc.) are very one OTP driven. Even if I like the OTP, say Stargate: Atlantis with McKay/Sheppard, it still makes me sad that it dominates the fic writing and discussions. Fen also annoys me because they often complain about oppression. Beside it being pretty hard to oppress people in fandom and over the internet, the majority, generally, cannot be oppressed.
As far as Livejournal, it's my main fandom source. Sometimes I go other places, but mostly I stick it out here. I find it weird when people ask if they can friend me. Mostly because I don't care who reads my journal. I get that it's public since my grandma, mom, various people I used to date, and those I've known since first grade read this journal. I like friends' lock for a reason, and I have filters if needed, which is very rare. I harbor no delusions over the privacy of my public posts. There is no privacy.
I will never, never stop enjoying or being involved in a fandom if I stick with it until the end of its canon run.
I'm addicted to the utopia of Star Trek and the speeches of Picard. Spock will always be sexy, but Jadzia will always nudge him out. Geordi has made a special place in my heart for engineers, and he'll always be my first crush. I even watched Voyager and I know that if I turn on any Trek episode that I'll be entertained.
Babylon 5 was a better show, and Susan Ivanova made me realize I was the gay. She is God and a very sexy one at that. Babylon 5 plots are what I measure every other show on, and I miss the days when JMS could write an interesting married couple.
I loved Buffy, the character, through all the seasons, and adore Anya too. But I'll always love AtS more than BtVS. AtS hits my arch-y plotline whoreish ways with the added bonus of hotty hotpants Lilah/Wesley. And, unlike BtVS, there's not a main character that makes me want to hit a wall, until S5 anyway. I could watch Cordelia, Lilah, Gunn, and Wesley all day long. I think Lorne is highly undervalued and wish Spike hadn't been there S5. Whedon is more on my shitlist for AtS S5 and no oversight in BtVS S7 than Noxon for her PSAs.
I believe in the polite snark and hand porn of Benton Fraser and how Diefenbaker made me want to have a wolf as a child. My RayK actually puts candy in his coffee and dances all the time and RayV lives with his mother out of guilt and spending his money on his car and clothing. Turnbull is love and so is Frannie, Elaine, Stella, and Thatcher. Welsh is the best police chief ever. Parachuting Mounties and buddy breathing will always be hilarious. I get and love Paul Gross' humor and melt when he sings.
Firefly was a show that I didn't like and wasn't impressed with at first. It took me a while to warm up and then Serenity left a cold feeling in my heart. I don't care for the canon ships, except Zoe/Wash. In many ways, I'm glad that the show was cancelled. In other ways, I am not. Jayne, Kaylee, Zoe, and Inara are characters I love the most.
I'm okay with House being a bastard and Wilson being a projecting bastard. They need more Cuddy and to show her ass more often. Perhaps she needs to have sex with Foreman. I don't care for Chase or Cameron, and upon marathoning S1, I was surprised how few episodes Volger was in.
I used to really adore Veronica Mars, then somehow she ended up with man pain. And I can't seem to forgive RT for two bad season enders in a row. I want more Mac, Kendall, Weevil, Wallace, Keith, and skeevy Lamb. With the exception of needing more female and queer main characters, it's a show I watch where I don't think "oh, there's the token [fill in minority]." RT's obviously been studying Canadian teen melodrama. I want better plotting and less JD's little boy nipples.
BSG has the potential to break B5's record for amazing show, but I'm not sure that RM's up to the task. My big excuse for not watching this show was not trusting RM. When I finally sat down to watch it, I had a lukewarm reaction until I met Ellen Tigh. Oh, Ellen, you are made of awesome. I also love Roslin, Six, Baltar, Adama, Saul, Cally, and the Chief. I have no love for Lee and his manpain, but Starbuck and her painterly ways are growing on me. (That will also never stop being funny.) There needs to be Ellen/Saul/Bill/Laura fic, in any combination.
Stargate has tapped that Star Trek love and it's more visible on the days when I'm mad at the Gaters for not following the Prime Directive. Though I don't like SG-1 at all, I've found that it's my pure hatred of Daniel that keeps me from enjoying it. (I hated Daniel when it wasn't cool or when lornelover was still obsessed with him.) I've watched way too much of it for not caring for most of it and reading femslash in it. But I do love and squee at SGA and all its horridness and cheese ball sci-fi. Most of the characters probably deserve to be eaten by bears for their lack of ethics and planning. Yet, I don't mind it. My horrible, horrible shame is that Sheppard is probably my favorite character and JF melts my panties, while I mock his limited acting range. I enjoy all the characters, while alternatively wanting to punch them for being stupid. Also Connor Trinneer is not a Texan, but from Walla Walla, the silly Lute, and the writers need character development like whoa. There needs to be more Cadman and Zelenka.
There's comics and lornelover says I'm Marvel's bitch. I adore Bendis, his writing, and his shutting down of asshole writers. I love Slott and his She-Hulk. I think Whedon is phoning it in from his tropical island with women who look strangely like Illyria and Kitty serving him drinks. Emma Frost has been and always will be my favorite character. I'm hoping that X3 will be better than the 90s animated series, because I've set the bar that low after being super spoiled. I've picked up 52 and betrayed Marvel. Oh noes! But hey, there are lesbians and no Superman so I'm happy.
I have a deep-seated love for the X-Files, which I can't talk about and couldn't watch for a long time without breaking down in tears that surprisingly had nothing to do with the later seasons. I've also enjoyed sitting on the doorsteps of Arrested Development, Grey's Anatomy, Oz, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Gilmore Girls, Queer as Folk (US), Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night, Slings and Arrows, Weeds, Big Love, Boston Legal, Batman, Horatio Hornblower, Bones, and various Law & Orders.
I've never read any of the Harry Potter books or watched any of the movies. Give me a current "famous" actor and I won't have a clue, but obscure Canadian ones and I'm gold. There are only 50 actors in Canada, and they are divided between Vancouver and Toronto. I also love hockey and golf, which are like other fandoms, only with actual fighting and they're making a lot more money than sci-fi actors. More movies need to have John de Lancie in them.
Now where are these bears? Too busy tearing McDreamy from limb to limb and turning Colbert gay.
*Personal attacks are not "your writing sucks." Personally attacks are "you suck because your parents don't love you and because you have x mental health issue."