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brainofckHer Royal Highness ponders the nature of writing as an ongoing process.
It's funny, I recently made the same anology to falling in love. This whole Avengers thing has had that feel to it, that can't-read-fast-enough, can't-stop-thinking-about-it feeling, like a new crush. I remember it with my two previous fandoms - my serious fandoms, not my brief fandom friendships and flirtations - and also, I am having the same feeling that I am betraying my old fandom with the new one.
I'm a serial monogamist. I fought so hard not to lose LOTR RPS, but I haven't had a real thought about it in years, despite still-lingering guilt about Throw Away. I'm having the same feeling of SG-1 slipping through my fingers. And the same feeling of resistance to writing in the new fandom that I had when LOTR was slipping away.
It makes me think about muses again. Not only do stories seem to write themselves, but also writing can feel like a relationship with a person.
It's funny, I recently made the same anology to falling in love. This whole Avengers thing has had that feel to it, that can't-read-fast-enough, can't-stop-thinking-about-it feeling, like a new crush. I remember it with my two previous fandoms - my serious fandoms, not my brief fandom friendships and flirtations - and also, I am having the same feeling that I am betraying my old fandom with the new one.
I'm a serial monogamist. I fought so hard not to lose LOTR RPS, but I haven't had a real thought about it in years, despite still-lingering guilt about Throw Away. I'm having the same feeling of SG-1 slipping through my fingers. And the same feeling of resistance to writing in the new fandom that I had when LOTR was slipping away.
It makes me think about muses again. Not only do stories seem to write themselves, but also writing can feel like a relationship with a person.
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Date: 2012-07-06 03:24 pm (UTC)And it took me a long long time to warm up to SGA, and I still don't really get it the way some of its hardcore fans do. My heart is totes given to the original show.
I watched BBC Sherlock just because it was clearly becoming the shiny new thing, but it left me cold. Basically sent me back to the books.
And then Avengers! I love Avengers movie verse and thank goodness there are people writing the stuff I want to read. But Thor/Loki and Bruce/Tony seem to be fandom favorites, and I'm more interested in Tony/Steve, Natasha/Clint and Clint/Phil. Not exactly rare pairings, but not what fandom's taken off with either.
But I highly doubt I'll ever write Avengers either.
All my plot bunnies these days are SG1 and orig fic.
But when White Collar comes back on, that's a possibility. And I'm inhaling Legend of the Seeker right now. I already thought of a fusion with that verse and SG1, lol.
Two other fandoms I adore but that I don't really read much in are Firefly and Burn Notice.
So I have no idea how it all works.
I'm just glad to be writing again.
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Date: 2012-07-06 03:39 pm (UTC)I am really trying NOT to write Avengers, because if it did to my time what SG-1 did, I could not try to pursue my new romance with original fic. That is where I need to get butt to meet chair. I think the problem has been that there is a lot of pre-work that I am still doing on the original work - like, for instance, I know sort of who I want the bad guys to be, but I needed to do a fair amount of research and thinking to know who they are going to be *exactly.* I finally did some of that, and I can feel the push now to do MORE of it. In so many ways, fanfic is just easier. The heavy lifting is done. Plot/smut can happen almost instantly.
Haha! Avengers is the hot, slutty guy I picked up at a bar. Original fic is the shy (possibly needy and codependent guy) that I'm trying to impress so I can meet his family.
:D
OMG, Legend of the Seeker and SG-1? *fears*
I don't know what imput I have about how we adopt fandoms. (I do know for slash to work for me, it needs to have seeds in canon, and also I can't buy into incest, no matter how pretty the participants would be.) But because of my RL issues, I actively attempt to control my reading on the computer, so I often actively avoid logical-for-me fandoms, like Burn Notice and Firefly and Farscape. I just don't have the time to be having these fandom crushes constantly!
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