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[merelyn]

One more final to go! And then I'm free to go home for a month and fuck around on the internet without feeling guilty and productive. And see people! Like duckfish, who has been away for so long, which shouldn't happen ever again. And see the gay cowboy movie hopefully before I crack and spoil myself! And maybe make progress on the definitive P/O Post-OoTP fic! And work (which doesn't really deserve an exclamation point, but I've got a pattern going here)!

Really though, I just wanted to share that I wore this shirt that moonblade85 got me from BASCon to my final this morning (under my hoodie, 'cause I'm bisocial like that). I was very tired when I got dressed this morning, but I think the idea was that having Rodney McKay's head over my right boob would make me smarter or something. The final went far better than I expected, so maybe it worked. *pats right boob*

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[gilenaki.livejournal.com]

omg i want that shirt!! also, i entirely blame you for getting me really into a new fandom that i now like better than my old fandom :)

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

*pumps fist* Yessss! SGA is so much more cracked out and craptastically fun than BSG.

[gilenaki.livejournal.com]

haha i was actually talking about lotrips. i've never really felt that much slashiness from bsg...and you're right, it's totally too serious. i feel like anything in that fandom would be completely depressing. lotr (exclusively rps, i get nervous messing around with tolkien) was what actually got me into slash, but it's kind of mostly dead except for au these days, given that the movies have been over for so long. sga, on the other hand, is tons of fun.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Oh. *feels stupid* Dur, sorry. Yeah, lotrips is something I've only ever dipped a toe or two into, mostly because ironically I get nervous messing around with RPS. :) LoTR, on the other hand, got me into slash too, and though I'm not active in it at all anymore, it will always hold a place in my heart. And, since I didn't even read the books until after Fellowship came out, I've never suffered from the mucking-about-with-Tolkien issue. (Yeah, I'm one of those LoTR fans.)

[gilenaki.livejournal.com]

aw, don't feel stupid!

interesting...i think the reason i started with rps was because i thought the actors were hot, and it worked for me mainly because i could look at pictures of real people, and i needed that then. even though i'm a late fan of lotr, i definitely got into the books before the movies, and had very definite constructions of the characters going into it, so i never really felt like fps was realistic enough.

i think lotrips and sga work well for the same reason: the people involved give the fans just enough to make slash believable, but never so much that there's no room for original characterization.

anyway...sorry for rambling. i tend to be pretty private about fandom because family friends read my journal sometimes - hence why i'm not actually in any communities. so this is a refreshing conversation for me :)

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

I can understand that; there's something about the LoTR books that just...isn't slashy. (Probably why I've only read them once.)

i think lotrips and sga work well for the same reason: the people involved give the fans just enough to make slash believable, but never so much that there's no room for original characterization.

Yeah, there are some shows (like BSG and Grey's Anatomy, which I love) that are so well-done and tight that you don't feel the need to fill the gaps in, because there aren't many. SGA is definitely in that good middle ground, I agree.

Though I came to SGA from a older school fandom, due South, which is arguably one of the most canonically slashy buddy-cop shows ever. (They did everything except make out- and even then- including riding off into the sunset at the end of the show.) It was a little strange downshifting in a more subtexty fandom, but then my first big slash fandom was Harry Potter, where my favorite pairing never even talked once in canon, so I'm not that picky, actually. :)

And I totally understand the rambling, my lj used to be completely non-fannish too. But then family friends (and most of mine from school) don't know about it. I think.