Snowflake #1 & #2
Jan. 4th, 2024 12:18 pm
I already did most of these two challenges as part of my end-of-year tidying, but here goes.
Challenge #1: Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I already keep a list of my social media platforms in my profile (and in my AO3 profile), but I did add a few things to my interests: more recent fandoms, some new practices. I did a minor clear-out in December of access/subscriptions - mostly to pare down my reading list, for I rarely post anything private locked. (I rarely post anything but recs these days at all! Working on changing that.)
Challenge #2: In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Again, I did my New Years Resolutions list last month - mostly pulling things from last year's list to continue or try to do more consistently (like volunteering at the food bank). I did make a list of Small Adventures to go on, places nearby that I haven't visited in ages or always meant to go/do/see, which I will try to post about here (see: effort to post about my life and not just fandom; I do like seeing other people's, and should not listen to the part of my brain that tells me it's not interesting when it's me).
I didn't set any particular goals for writing, though it's generally on the list - I find the pressure counterproductive - but I did complete one of my bookmarking goals last year, to catch up through 2018, though I fell just short (5 fics!) of my stretch goal of 2019. I'm going to try and post things on Pinboard more concurrently with my monthly recs, but we'll see how that goes.
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squidgestatus posted: The Jinjurly Missing Files Spreadsheet!
inmyriadbits, they're still missing all of yours, so definitely take a look!For those of you unfamiliar, Jinjurly's podfic archive was a stable podfic hosting site for years starting in 2006, and was especially needed back when media hosting was much more difficult. Sadly, the site was hacked and thousands of files were lost, so the site's been sort of a graveyard of more-dead-than-not links for years. I knew there was an effort to fix things but I hadn't heard anything in so long. But now this, and they're accepting new podfic submissions as well! This is exciting!!!
Snowflake #3: AUs
Jan. 15th, 2022 12:55 pm
Challenge #3: In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.
I DO love AUs! A quick spot-check showed that they're...about 20% of my bookmarks, damn, and 18% of my published fic (...let's not talk about the WIPs). My favorites are canon-divergence AUs: I love the puzzle of how one small change (or a large one) can alter events, both as a reader and a writer, the question of what parts of a character are essential and what shift with circumstance. Plus, fix-its! I'm not great with tragedy.
Setting AUs are dicier - I'm a sucker for competence, so a lot of my fandom are full of highly capable/dangerous/competent/talented people. So while I do actually read a fair number of coffeeshop/mundane life/university AUs for the mindless fluff, they rarely move me as strongly as fics where my characters get to keep that aspect of themselves. Like, a Leverage AU where they're all baristas is never gonna compete with 'international Robin Hood team of cons and thieves', you know?
Fusions are trickier ground. For one thing, the language around them has gotten increasingly confused. Like, an Anastasia AU (♥) is technically a fusion but no one calls them that anymore. Most people just call something an AU whether it's a fusion or not, and fusions can be combined with more direct crossovers as well as technically being a type of crossover, and. yeah. It's messy, and I've fallen into calling everything an AU unless I'm figuring out how to tag things on Pinboard just because that's the standard language now.
Both fusions and canon-divergences have the same fail point for me: sticking too close to canon events. If I wanted a flat retread of that story, I'd just re-visit canon. I ended up picking this icon because one of the places the Temeraire series really falls down is sticking so closely to the actual path of the Napoleonic Wars - and conversely, is strongest when it diverges and has France invade Britain. I can definitely understand not wanting to reconstruct a decades-long war as an author, and Novik certainly did a lot more on the social side of changes, but it was frustrating. Dragons would change things!!! It's a hard trap to avoid when writing in fandom as well, because our urge is to keep the scenes and moments we love, or that are formative to our characters, but the whole point of an AU is to see how things went differently as well. Finding the right balance can be very difficult, but I definitely prefer the end of the spectrum that takes the original premise and runs away with it.
I feel like a cat cautiously poking its head into a new room about this year. Unlike a cat, however, the nature of time means I do have to proceed into the new year whether I like it or not, and 2022 has been a bit up and down so far.
( the see-saw )
So in the spirit of being less of a hermit, I decided to try the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
snowflake_challenge again. We'll see how I do.
Challenge #1: update your fandom information
I tweaked a few things on various platforms bios and profiles, but mostly I ecided to do a much-needed update of my default icon (from...2011?!? goodness). I like having a consistent avatar across sites and mostly succeeded in that, but I couldn't make the damn bird fit into the circle icons on Twitter or Discord, so I picked another image which is quite pretty albeit more wintry than I prefer. My previous default was striking but not actually a sparrow which has always mildly bugged me, so I stole a new image off the internet and did my poor Photoshop best.
Challenge #2: set some goals for the coming year
I'm not going to go into detail here but broadly:
1) get physically and mentally more healthy
2) participate less passively in fandom: commenting, creating, discussing
3) deal with various things that have been piling up (physically and electronically)
( the see-saw )
So in the spirit of being less of a hermit, I decided to try the
snowflake_challenge again. We'll see how I do.Challenge #1: update your fandom information
I tweaked a few things on various platforms bios and profiles, but mostly I ecided to do a much-needed update of my default icon (from...2011?!? goodness). I like having a consistent avatar across sites and mostly succeeded in that, but I couldn't make the damn bird fit into the circle icons on Twitter or Discord, so I picked another image which is quite pretty albeit more wintry than I prefer. My previous default was striking but not actually a sparrow which has always mildly bugged me, so I stole a new image off the internet and did my poor Photoshop best.
Challenge #2: set some goals for the coming year
I'm not going to go into detail here but broadly:
1) get physically and mentally more healthy
2) participate less passively in fandom: commenting, creating, discussing
3) deal with various things that have been piling up (physically and electronically)
Happy 20th fanniversary to me!
Oct. 3rd, 2020 07:45 pmUnlike many people, I can actually track the start of my adventures in fandom to a specific date: on October 3, 2000, I walked into the living room to catch the end of the Dark Angel premiere. I fell completely in love on the spot, but my need to find out what I missed in the first part of the episode led me to the internet, where I fell down the rabbit hole into fandom.
I did eventually get to watch the full pilot the following spring, when a fandom friend in Florida recorded a rerun and mailed me the VHS. *laughs* It was a different time, and it’s been a wild ride over the years, but I have no regrets.
I did eventually get to watch the full pilot the following spring, when a fandom friend in Florida recorded a rerun and mailed me the VHS. *laughs* It was a different time, and it’s been a wild ride over the years, but I have no regrets.
con_txt posted: CON.TXT 2020 Vid Show Playlist
An excellent vid show with FOUR awesome Untamed vids premiering (I need to go watch Start a War a million more times) and a ton of other great watches - I Didn't Just Come Here To Dance was a charming Finn/Poe vid, I Will Go Down With This Ship was a nostalgia-blast for OTPs past but not forgotten, super fun sports-movie vid Game On, and Soldier single-handedly moved The Expanse to the top of my to-watch list because I must know more about those ladies.
Also, I am still laughing my ass off that there were two Nirvana in Fire vids in the show, both amazing but about as opposite tonally as you can get -- the first being Thousand Eyes, which I've recced before as it's a beautiful, epic, goosebump-inducing masterpiece of a vid, and the other was a hilarious cracky Fei Liu vid set to U can't touch this. <3
Snowflake Challenge - Day 10
Feb. 5th, 2019 10:23 pmDay 10: Create a fanwork.
I''m going to use archiving all of my Mad Max: Fury Road meta on AO3 yesterday for this one.
MMFR was a very unusual fandom for me, in that I probably spent more time on fannish discussion than I did with fic (although I still wrote a few and beta'd a few and read many more). Tumblr's ability to easily combine visual and text media was absolutely essential for this fandom, imo - how could you easily dissect the micro-second flashes of Max's hallucinations, or squint to figure out what kind of produce was hidden in the War Rig without fuzzy freeze frames to argue over? So when Tumblr started imploding, one of my first reactions was distress that the central part of that fandom was going to disappear. In fact, one of the most prolific writers already got her blog deemed NSFW and you can't access her original posts anymore, which is deeply enraging.
I'm definitely a tortoise rather than a hare, so I collected a bunch of posts about archiving and procrastinated and eventually came up with a fairly easy method of preserving the pages with images intact, and archiving them (or at least access to them) on AO3. I started it for MMFR fandom specifically, but it should work for anyone who has gifsets or photosets or moodboards that they want to archive without having to rehost all the images.
( for those who are interested )
If anyone has additional clever ideas, or thoughts about how to make it easier, please comment to let me know!
I''m going to use archiving all of my Mad Max: Fury Road meta on AO3 yesterday for this one.
MMFR was a very unusual fandom for me, in that I probably spent more time on fannish discussion than I did with fic (although I still wrote a few and beta'd a few and read many more). Tumblr's ability to easily combine visual and text media was absolutely essential for this fandom, imo - how could you easily dissect the micro-second flashes of Max's hallucinations, or squint to figure out what kind of produce was hidden in the War Rig without fuzzy freeze frames to argue over? So when Tumblr started imploding, one of my first reactions was distress that the central part of that fandom was going to disappear. In fact, one of the most prolific writers already got her blog deemed NSFW and you can't access her original posts anymore, which is deeply enraging.
I'm definitely a tortoise rather than a hare, so I collected a bunch of posts about archiving and procrastinated and eventually came up with a fairly easy method of preserving the pages with images intact, and archiving them (or at least access to them) on AO3. I started it for MMFR fandom specifically, but it should work for anyone who has gifsets or photosets or moodboards that they want to archive without having to rehost all the images.
( for those who are interested )
If anyone has additional clever ideas, or thoughts about how to make it easier, please comment to let me know!
LJ deletion
Apr. 4th, 2017 02:21 pmJust a heads up to everyone that I deleted my LJ, so those old crosspost links are now defunct! Presumably there's some way to remove them, but I'm gonna give myself some time before investigating, since I just erased 14 years of my fannish history (even it is all backed up here).
If anyone wants to know why, I reblogged details about LJ's new bullshit TOS over on Tumblr.
If anyone wants to know why, I reblogged details about LJ's new bullshit TOS over on Tumblr.
la la la i should go to bed
Mar. 25th, 2015 11:43 pmI've been terribly distractible lately, and keep dumping myself into new fandoms despite it being a really unwise idea. I did fail to do my usual SXSW marathon -- I only saw 3 films this year, being sadly curtailed by me starting a new job (yay) + not being able to take any more time off after my surgery (boo).
So far this month, I have spent way too much mental energy bouncing between:
Check, Please! (this is the closest I am ever getting to hockey fandom, though)
The 100 - EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE and I love it
World War Z (wow the book is nothing like the movie, the zombies don't even work the same. glad I read the book second, so I didn't have any expectations for the film, which a totally solid and completely unrelated Hollywood zombie thrillfest)
Foxglove Summer/rereading the series via Kobna Holbrook-Smith's magical audiobook readings (re-listening?)
return of The Walking Dead -- CAROL OMG
Also, I can't believe I didn't realize that 616 Bucky Barnes has the same birthday as me and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
inmyriadbits. Like, 91 years apart, but who's counting?
Coming not-very-soon-but-eventually by popular request: a photo documentation of my healing incision. And by 'popular request', I meankatieupsidedown. :D
So far this month, I have spent way too much mental energy bouncing between:
Check, Please! (this is the closest I am ever getting to hockey fandom, though)
The 100 - EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE and I love it
World War Z (wow the book is nothing like the movie, the zombies don't even work the same. glad I read the book second, so I didn't have any expectations for the film, which a totally solid and completely unrelated Hollywood zombie thrillfest)
Foxglove Summer/rereading the series via Kobna Holbrook-Smith's magical audiobook readings (re-listening?)
return of The Walking Dead -- CAROL OMG
Also, I can't believe I didn't realize that 616 Bucky Barnes has the same birthday as me and
inmyriadbits. Like, 91 years apart, but who's counting?Coming not-very-soon-but-eventually by popular request: a photo documentation of my healing incision. And by 'popular request', I mean
katieupsidedown. :DCritiquing the ones you love
Jul. 7th, 2014 07:50 pmI'm going through a stretch of Pinboard bookmarking - which for me involves going through my carefully sorted browser bookmarks of 'fic I liked', re-reading them, and then deleting the ones that don't hold up on the second run. I started doing this because a) binge reading upon joining a fandom often drives me to bookmark dozens of subpar stories in that first fandom flush of infatuation, and b) too much 3AM reading. It's a good set of filters for me, but it does mean I tend to tuck stories away in my bookmarks folder for several years. (finally finished through 2009 last year, whoo!)
Which means I just now finished going through my bookmarks for The Eagle and Hawaii 5-0, and have just started into Dresden Files. The Eagle fic held up fairly well, but I ended up keeping only ten out of about sixty H50 stories, and wound up re-reading some wank that went down in Dresden back in 2011 when I binge-read the whole series.
Which got me thinking about how we critique canons that are problematic but keep consuming them anyway, and how 'so just stop watching it!' seems to be the first defensive response when we do that.
There's a good reason we call it 'breaking up with a fandom' when we leave, because it *is* a love affair. And like many relationships, marriage or domestic partnership or whatever, we commit and fall in love and create spaces and memories, but we still have issues. Nobody's perfect. Your girlfriend leaves her towels on the floor. Your showrunner makes inappropriate jokes in a public interview. You hate the colors your husband chooses for his clothing.
And everyone has a different breaking point. Your significant other wants to have children. Your show kills off your favorite, or triggers you and doesn't see the problem. Your partner cheats on you, or hits you. Your show does something unforgiveably racist/misogynist/___phobic.
You make the choice to leave, or separate. It doesn't mean there weren't good things; you may still see each other; it may not even mean you don't love them anymore. But it's gonna hurt, it's gonna be ugly, and it's gonna be different for everyone involved.
Anyway, tl;dr. Going through my H50 fic felt like going through that box of crap your douchebag ex left behind and alternating between feeling like I should be using tongs and just not caring anymore. Except every once in a while there was an awesome memory, or something shiny, so I had to keep going until I was done. And Dresden Files was like that fling where you find their number in your phone and realize you haven't heard from them in three years, and maybe you should call them, or check their Facebook? Except, fuck, what if they start acting awkward and sketchy and making sexist jokes again -- but otoh, they were funny, and the sex was really great. Hmmm.
FANDOM LIFE. I have a lot of feelings.
Which means I just now finished going through my bookmarks for The Eagle and Hawaii 5-0, and have just started into Dresden Files. The Eagle fic held up fairly well, but I ended up keeping only ten out of about sixty H50 stories, and wound up re-reading some wank that went down in Dresden back in 2011 when I binge-read the whole series.
Which got me thinking about how we critique canons that are problematic but keep consuming them anyway, and how 'so just stop watching it!' seems to be the first defensive response when we do that.
There's a good reason we call it 'breaking up with a fandom' when we leave, because it *is* a love affair. And like many relationships, marriage or domestic partnership or whatever, we commit and fall in love and create spaces and memories, but we still have issues. Nobody's perfect. Your girlfriend leaves her towels on the floor. Your showrunner makes inappropriate jokes in a public interview. You hate the colors your husband chooses for his clothing.
And everyone has a different breaking point. Your significant other wants to have children. Your show kills off your favorite, or triggers you and doesn't see the problem. Your partner cheats on you, or hits you. Your show does something unforgiveably racist/misogynist/___phobic.
You make the choice to leave, or separate. It doesn't mean there weren't good things; you may still see each other; it may not even mean you don't love them anymore. But it's gonna hurt, it's gonna be ugly, and it's gonna be different for everyone involved.
Anyway, tl;dr. Going through my H50 fic felt like going through that box of crap your douchebag ex left behind and alternating between feeling like I should be using tongs and just not caring anymore. Except every once in a while there was an awesome memory, or something shiny, so I had to keep going until I was done. And Dresden Files was like that fling where you find their number in your phone and realize you haven't heard from them in three years, and maybe you should call them, or check their Facebook? Except, fuck, what if they start acting awkward and sketchy and making sexist jokes again -- but otoh, they were funny, and the sex was really great. Hmmm.
FANDOM LIFE. I have a lot of feelings.
six degrees of nerdery
Nov. 16th, 2013 12:20 amAs some of you might have guessed from my last post, I fell face-first back into Avengers fandom recently (hahaha, typoed that as 'feel face-first', also accurate). Partially, this is an attempt to finish a WIP that's been sitting around since May 2012 and partially because I was getting a little crazy about Person of Interest. (I broke down in insane tears of frustration over something very stupid involving codecs, and decided to take a break. Basically.)
Tonight, I spent literally an hour trawling through Samuel L. Jackson's IMDB page to play six degrees of separation with the Avengers cast and every other comics movie ever. I was having so much fun that I did not even realize it was taking that long until I looked at the clock.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.
....But for the record, Samuel L. Jackson is totally in the lead in that game.
Tonight, I spent literally an hour trawling through Samuel L. Jackson's IMDB page to play six degrees of separation with the Avengers cast and every other comics movie ever. I was having so much fun that I did not even realize it was taking that long until I looked at the clock.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.
....But for the record, Samuel L. Jackson is totally in the lead in that game.
get well soon
Oct. 9th, 2013 12:08 amNaturally, just as I was about to respond to a bunch of AO3 comments and clear them out of my inbox, the archive goes down. *pats AO3* Oh, well.
...I completely forgot what else I was going to say. I'm very tired. I could rec something, but the archive's down, so that would be mean. I haven't seen POI or Sleepy Hollow from this week or Elementary from last week yet, but tomorrow's my day off, so hopefully that will happen. I've still only seen the pilot for Agents of SHIELD and judging by people's reactions, I suspect my lack of enthusiasm for seeing the next two is not going to improve. *sigh* I love Coulson a lot, but unless the rest of the crew starts leveling up, I'm worried.
The Arrow premiere is on October 9, and I am looking forward to that - Felicity! Summer Glau as a new character! Ridiculous vigilante shenanigans and a high probability of shirtless men with very fine musculature! :D After that, it's a bit of a dry stretch until Almost Human on November 4th. I guess I could check out Once Upon A Time In Wonderland, but I'm already side-eying the show for changing its name three times and I'm very picky about my Alice in Wonderland remakes. We'll see.
...I completely forgot what else I was going to say. I'm very tired. I could rec something, but the archive's down, so that would be mean. I haven't seen POI or Sleepy Hollow from this week or Elementary from last week yet, but tomorrow's my day off, so hopefully that will happen. I've still only seen the pilot for Agents of SHIELD and judging by people's reactions, I suspect my lack of enthusiasm for seeing the next two is not going to improve. *sigh* I love Coulson a lot, but unless the rest of the crew starts leveling up, I'm worried.
The Arrow premiere is on October 9, and I am looking forward to that - Felicity! Summer Glau as a new character! Ridiculous vigilante shenanigans and a high probability of shirtless men with very fine musculature! :D After that, it's a bit of a dry stretch until Almost Human on November 4th. I guess I could check out Once Upon A Time In Wonderland, but I'm already side-eying the show for changing its name three times and I'm very picky about my Alice in Wonderland remakes. We'll see.
bookmarking and me
Oct. 1st, 2013 04:00 pmUgh. I was vaguely sick all weekend (again, thanks to inmyriadbits - how it is that she's giving all the viruses to me when I'm the one who works in a service industry?) with a sore throat and fatigue, and finally hit the point yesterday where I needed to call in. I was actually only awake for 8 hours yesterday, in between Nyquil dosings.
Anyway. I ran across A Beginner's Guide to Pinboard yesterday, and started thinking about how I bookmark, which is very very different from that person. From a lot of people, probably. ( and now I will ramble about My Process if anyone cares. Probably just the other bookmarking addicts. )
That's about it, and now 'bookmarking' has started to look like a fake word, so I'm off to sleep in front of the TV or something. Wish me luck.
Anyway. I ran across A Beginner's Guide to Pinboard yesterday, and started thinking about how I bookmark, which is very very different from that person. From a lot of people, probably. ( and now I will ramble about My Process if anyone cares. Probably just the other bookmarking addicts. )
That's about it, and now 'bookmarking' has started to look like a fake word, so I'm off to sleep in front of the TV or something. Wish me luck.
challenger
Sep. 4th, 2013 01:29 amAs deadlines loom, a fan's thoughts naturally turn to... getting distracted by other shiny challenge signups. So far I've resisted the siren call (except for Yuletide, but that's a given at this point), but if anyone else is interested:
fan_byproducts - a Welcome to Night Vale gift exchange with a name that made me LOL, because I enjoy bad jokes. Signups are open until September 8th!
Idyll Challenge - okay, technically I'm still eyeing this one because it's open-ended like Canadian Shacks. Who doesn't like stories "in which the characters are stuck in a peaceful, comfortable, well-stocked place, usually with some kind of swimming available"? Good decision, fandom.
Small Fandom Big Bang - signups are open until October 31st. (hmmm. Actually. Linds, I think MI4 is eligible. Should we?)
I have definitely *not* resisted the siren call ofpofinterest_chat, which I think was a good life choice. More people should come play! *pokes everyone*
fan_byproducts - a Welcome to Night Vale gift exchange with a name that made me LOL, because I enjoy bad jokes. Signups are open until September 8th!Idyll Challenge - okay, technically I'm still eyeing this one because it's open-ended like Canadian Shacks. Who doesn't like stories "in which the characters are stuck in a peaceful, comfortable, well-stocked place, usually with some kind of swimming available"? Good decision, fandom.
Small Fandom Big Bang - signups are open until October 31st. (hmmm. Actually. Linds, I think MI4 is eligible. Should we?)
I have definitely *not* resisted the siren call of
pofinterest_chat, which I think was a good life choice. More people should come play! *pokes everyone*what's in a name
Aug. 30th, 2013 12:27 pmI swear I'm going to have an actual recaps of Chicago/Vividcon at some point, but this discussion and meeting people at VVC made me want to ask: how do you pronounce your username?
For myself, 'spatz' is actually German (meaning sparrow) and should be pronounced 'schpots', roughly. However, I am a Texan and gleefully mispronounce it 'spats', like the formal footwear. Back when I wasthespatz, I had several people think it was said like 'thespian', which I got a kick out of hearing.
Some of y'all are easy (katieupsidedown, doitninetimes/drunkoffthestars, dotfic, arsenicjade), but I'm still not sure if I'm saying ignipes correctly. (at least I know how to say Kali right? *g*)
For myself, 'spatz' is actually German (meaning sparrow) and should be pronounced 'schpots', roughly. However, I am a Texan and gleefully mispronounce it 'spats', like the formal footwear. Back when I was
thespatz, I had several people think it was said like 'thespian', which I got a kick out of hearing.Some of y'all are easy (
katieupsidedown, doitninetimes/drunkoffthestars, dotfic, arsenicjade), but I'm still not sure if I'm saying ignipes correctly. (at least I know how to say Kali right? *g*)Vividcon & Chicago
Aug. 12th, 2013 10:25 pmI COMPLETELY forgot to say anything, but I am going to VividCon in Chicago this weekend! If any of y'all are going and/or would like to hang out outside of the con, say hi in comments? I'm going to be visiting junebug_waltz before and after the con, so I will be there from Wednesday through Monday afternoon. I am totally house-trained and adorable, I promise. :D
junebug_waltz before and after the con, so I will be there from Wednesday through Monday afternoon. I am totally house-trained and adorable, I promise. :D(no subject)
May. 17th, 2013 01:02 amI'm still a little surprised at my own obsession with Person of Interest, sometimes. Like, I've been obsessed with fandoms like this before, right? But they were either passing flings that I see again once a year or so, or something like Supernatural and Avengers, which are both HUGE fandoms. It felt like it made more sense to be so crazy when you had that much backup. Whereas POI is pretty darn small -- small enough to be in Yuletide for two years running (though definitely not next year! go fandom!).
I think it's the way that most of the people who watch the show end up casual fans, and then there's the small minority that end up sobbing over references to eggs benedict, and laughing hysterically at the boys and their inappropriate lack of stalking boundaries, and debating AI sentience or the morality of vigilante justice vs the government playing Big Brother.
And I love it.
I'm just saying: it's a little disconcerting to have a fandom this small eat my brain so hard.
I think it's the way that most of the people who watch the show end up casual fans, and then there's the small minority that end up sobbing over references to eggs benedict, and laughing hysterically at the boys and their inappropriate lack of stalking boundaries, and debating AI sentience or the morality of vigilante justice vs the government playing Big Brother.
And I love it.
I'm just saying: it's a little disconcerting to have a fandom this small eat my brain so hard.
AO3 curiosity
May. 7th, 2013 04:07 pmSo with the news about AO3 making TIME's best 50 websites list, I was thinking about how the site is bound to get some tourists wandering through, which made me wonder if there were any stories on the archive that had inflated hit counts from outsider linkage (the way sam_storyteller's Trying to Communicate went viral because lolcats).
It doesn't look like it: most of the ten stories with hits over 200,000 are behemoth chaptered fic in popular fandoms that were posted as WIPs.
But then there's a few *complete* outliers, all from SGA fandom: gen fic of mediocre quality and short length, all by different authors. They all have low comment/kudos numbers, except one that has 7500 guest kudos and like five personal kudos, and a truly egregious misspelling in the title.
I am VASTLY curious what happened there.
sam_storyteller's Trying to Communicate went viral because lolcats).It doesn't look like it: most of the ten stories with hits over 200,000 are behemoth chaptered fic in popular fandoms that were posted as WIPs.
But then there's a few *complete* outliers, all from SGA fandom: gen fic of mediocre quality and short length, all by different authors. They all have low comment/kudos numbers, except one that has 7500 guest kudos and like five personal kudos, and a truly egregious misspelling in the title.
I am VASTLY curious what happened there.