Welcome to the weekend

[jadesfire]

I have been so ready for Saturday, since about Tuesday morning. Having worked 3 12 hour days this week, I've now got a day of cleaning, hoovering, dusting, sorting and cooking. Happy happy joy joy.

It's not that bad actually, and we do need to get the flat sorted out so we're living in somewhere inhabitable rather than something that looks like the backroom of a busy charity shop.

Ooh, although speaking of happy joy, someone nominated Movie Night in the episode tag category at the Children of Time awards! Considering I think of myself as being 'out' of Torchwood fandom nowadays, I'm chuffed to bits. Thank you, whoever you are!

In other news, my writing-fu has finally returned, after deserting me for most of Christmas and the holiday. The bad news (for most of you, or not, you know) is that the story is Criminal Minds. I still have some Atlantis loose ends to finish up, as well as a couple of Torchwood stories that I must write, but I think they're now going to have to be juggled with CM as well. We'll see how well my brain handles that... But there is a distinct lack of good gen in Criminal Minds, and possibly of fic full-stop. It's in its fourth season and only has 17 recs on crack_van, only a couple of which are Gen. What's with that? It was like this the last time I fell out of the fandom - these fans (as a group and not counting my flist) are probably the nicest and least prone to drama that I've ever met, they just don't seem to churn out the fic like SGA or the Whoniverse or SPN. Weird. I can see I'm going to have to pick up my rec list again.

Also, through this year, some people have friended my journal, some just to lurk (*waves and passes cookies*), some to chat sometimes and possibly some who are now wondering why. Every day is unfriending day around here etc etc but it also occurred to me that I don't know some of you that I talk to regularly as well as I might. So I'm nicking this from kristen999:

You can ask me any question or two and I'll try to answer them. (I also reserve the right not to if it's too sensitive) This is your chance. What do you want to know? My favorite movie? What do I listen to? What were you thinking of when you wrote.......?

What the hell are you thinking about right now?

The red or the blue pill?

Fire away.

It's going to be a long, slow Saturday, folks. Come talk to me!

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I've only just woke up and the first question that springs to mind is: read anything you liked, recently?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I don't read that much, and I'm terrible about actually finishing books. Fanfic-wise, I read even less, so I'll stick with printed stuff.

Three spring to mind:
- Georgiana, Duchess of Deveonshire. No idea what the film's going to be like, but I read the book at 14 and fell in love with her. Reading it again recently, I'm still crushing hard.
- The Knife of Never Letting Go. This is a distopian YA novel (although I'd emphasise the 'A' in that). It's written in 1st person present, which I hate, but the story just sort of sucks you in, and despite strongly disliking the main character, I have to know where it's going. Not yet finished.
- The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy. Yes, my fancrush is showing, but it's a fascinating read.

[luthien.livejournal.com]

*delurks and waves*

How did you get into your first fandom? What drew you to it?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*waves back* Y HALO THAR!

Ooh, good question. My first fandom was X-men (comics) or rather Gambit was my fandom. He just happened to be in X-men. I'd seen the animated series and thought it was awesome, so I picked up the comics and got totally hooked. That year was the first where I'd had my own computer and unfettered internet access, and I just plunged right in. There's a wonderfully bad WIP (complete with Mary Sue - go me!) that lurks somewhere in my fanfiction.net account, and I wrote one Gambit story that I still love, but the fandom as a whole scared me, and I dropped out again pretty quickly. I didn't really come back until I discovered House, and Livejournal and. Well.

It was all downhill from there ;)

What about you? How does SGA compare to other fandoms you've been in?

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

How and why did you start with LJ?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

House, MD. It's pretty much that simple. I knew about fanfic, so when I started getting into the show and wanted to write/read some fic, I googled for it and came across LJ that way. My House-friends - who held my hand and put up with my daft LJ questions - are still some of my closest friends around here, which makes me very, very happy :)

What about you?

[jack-magic.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I've been up all night and I'm running out of movies to watch :(
I'm also thinking that I shouldn't have blown through the Sookie Stackhouse books so quick, as I now have nothing new to read. I'm thinking that if I try and finish Republic I might not make it to junior year, and I'm thinking that when/if I DO make it to Junior year, the GRE tests are going to be even easier then the SATs, and what kind of sense does that make?

Hmm...blue I think. It's the color of sky, and water, and viagra.

My questions for you...do they have GREs or SATs in the UK? Why is all of your television so blatantly homoerotic and yet never explicitly gay? What color do you like to paint your toenails?

Mine are black, because it exasperates my mother.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lot going on in your head! I've heard of SATs, but not GREs. There is testing younger than 16, but it was introduced after I'd left the education system, so I don't know much about it. The big ones are GCSEs at 16 and AS and A2 levels at 17 and 18. They're your last stop before University, so they're the ones that really matter.

*snort* UK TV has a long history of campness. There's a theory that it goes back to the pantomime dame, and certainly cross-dressing is a very common thing in British comedy.

I don't paint any of my nails - not only am I very bad at it, it makes my nails feel like they're suffocating. If I get enthusiastic, I use one of those buffer things to make them shine. But since I don't wear sandals really - not even in the summer - I tend not to worry about my toes.

[naye]

What are your thoughts on anime/manga? I'm really curious - I've noticed I tend to assume people I meet in Western fandoms don't know anything at all about Japanese stuff, only to be proven very wrong on several occasions. (Which is awesome! There's such a huge difference between the fandoms focused on Western and Japanese source material, moving back and forth between the two is giving me some kind of weird fandom-lag. I almost feel like I have to choose between the two, because there is so little overlap compared to the overlap between different Western fandoms...)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

To me, anime/manga seems like this huge huge thing that it would take me a lifetime to get the hang of. I get that it has its own language (not just Japanese, but visual and traditional tropes that you only get by regular reading) but the plethora of stories is a little...intimidating to the newbie. I used to be in a comic fandom (X-men) and loved the run of manga-inspired artwork, so it's not the form that keeps me away, more the sheer size of it. It's like getting in HP fandom - I'm sure I'd be fine, but there's just So Much I can't bring myself to start. Does that make sense?

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the nomination! And yay for the return of your muse, it's always nice when they come back off holiday.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It was such a relief - I don't quite have 200 words yet, but I know the character point I want to make, so I'm sure I'll get there.

Just a shame it's not in a fandom that more of my friends share :S

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

While I've never really looked, I've never found decent CM fic. Just scary violent crap or horrible slash/het stuff (and we all know Hotch is really a violent Dom, right? *shudder*) I'm not all that familiar with the canon but if you need someone to check your Americanisms give a holler.

Congrats on the Children of Time nom!

and for the random question of the day... do you think you're going to bow out of the SGA fandom now that the show is over?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I have this theory that the quality of the fanfic is inversely proportional to the quality of the source. So when a source is patchy *coughSGAcough*, people write lots to compensate. But CM is very, very smart, very consistently written, and hitting that tone just right is *hard*. It's a crying shame, especially because it puts people off writing Gen :S

Thanks!

Hmmm. I don't consider myself to be that into SGA fandom - I write, but in a little niche where no one really notices - so it feels more like taking a step back than bowing out. Also, S5 was such a *searches for word* let down, that I'm finding it hard to get my squee back. I've got stories still to tell, but I'm going to take it easy on the writing front this year. Fewer, better stories is what I'm going for, and if that means just writing 6 in a year then so be it.

So I think that's a "maybe?" ;)

[azure-chaos.livejournal.com]

Hmm... What fandom(s) did you think you would get into but didn't/haven't?

ETA: YAY for CM fic :) There just isn't enough of it.

nate

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good question. Um. Probably The West Wing, which I adore but am not remotely fannish about. I also thought I'd get more into The Man From UNCLE, but that never materialised.

*g* I noticed that too! Where is it all? Where are all the good writers? *peers under sofa* It's just plain weird...

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I've only just woke up and the first question that springs to mind is: read anything you liked, recently?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I don't read that much, and I'm terrible about actually finishing books. Fanfic-wise, I read even less, so I'll stick with printed stuff.

Three spring to mind:
- Georgiana, Duchess of Deveonshire. No idea what the film's going to be like, but I read the book at 14 and fell in love with her. Reading it again recently, I'm still crushing hard.
- The Knife of Never Letting Go. This is a distopian YA novel (although I'd emphasise the 'A' in that). It's written in 1st person present, which I hate, but the story just sort of sucks you in, and despite strongly disliking the main character, I have to know where it's going. Not yet finished.
- The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy. Yes, my fancrush is showing, but it's a fascinating read.

[luthien.livejournal.com]

*delurks and waves*

How did you get into your first fandom? What drew you to it?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*waves back* Y HALO THAR!

Ooh, good question. My first fandom was X-men (comics) or rather Gambit was my fandom. He just happened to be in X-men. I'd seen the animated series and thought it was awesome, so I picked up the comics and got totally hooked. That year was the first where I'd had my own computer and unfettered internet access, and I just plunged right in. There's a wonderfully bad WIP (complete with Mary Sue - go me!) that lurks somewhere in my fanfiction.net account, and I wrote one Gambit story that I still love, but the fandom as a whole scared me, and I dropped out again pretty quickly. I didn't really come back until I discovered House, and Livejournal and. Well.

It was all downhill from there ;)

What about you? How does SGA compare to other fandoms you've been in?

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

How and why did you start with LJ?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

House, MD. It's pretty much that simple. I knew about fanfic, so when I started getting into the show and wanted to write/read some fic, I googled for it and came across LJ that way. My House-friends - who held my hand and put up with my daft LJ questions - are still some of my closest friends around here, which makes me very, very happy :)

What about you?

[jack-magic.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I've been up all night and I'm running out of movies to watch :(
I'm also thinking that I shouldn't have blown through the Sookie Stackhouse books so quick, as I now have nothing new to read. I'm thinking that if I try and finish Republic I might not make it to junior year, and I'm thinking that when/if I DO make it to Junior year, the GRE tests are going to be even easier then the SATs, and what kind of sense does that make?

Hmm...blue I think. It's the color of sky, and water, and viagra.

My questions for you...do they have GREs or SATs in the UK? Why is all of your television so blatantly homoerotic and yet never explicitly gay? What color do you like to paint your toenails?

Mine are black, because it exasperates my mother.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lot going on in your head! I've heard of SATs, but not GREs. There is testing younger than 16, but it was introduced after I'd left the education system, so I don't know much about it. The big ones are GCSEs at 16 and AS and A2 levels at 17 and 18. They're your last stop before University, so they're the ones that really matter.

*snort* UK TV has a long history of campness. There's a theory that it goes back to the pantomime dame, and certainly cross-dressing is a very common thing in British comedy.

I don't paint any of my nails - not only am I very bad at it, it makes my nails feel like they're suffocating. If I get enthusiastic, I use one of those buffer things to make them shine. But since I don't wear sandals really - not even in the summer - I tend not to worry about my toes.

[naye]

What are your thoughts on anime/manga? I'm really curious - I've noticed I tend to assume people I meet in Western fandoms don't know anything at all about Japanese stuff, only to be proven very wrong on several occasions. (Which is awesome! There's such a huge difference between the fandoms focused on Western and Japanese source material, moving back and forth between the two is giving me some kind of weird fandom-lag. I almost feel like I have to choose between the two, because there is so little overlap compared to the overlap between different Western fandoms...)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

To me, anime/manga seems like this huge huge thing that it would take me a lifetime to get the hang of. I get that it has its own language (not just Japanese, but visual and traditional tropes that you only get by regular reading) but the plethora of stories is a little...intimidating to the newbie. I used to be in a comic fandom (X-men) and loved the run of manga-inspired artwork, so it's not the form that keeps me away, more the sheer size of it. It's like getting in HP fandom - I'm sure I'd be fine, but there's just So Much I can't bring myself to start. Does that make sense?

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the nomination! And yay for the return of your muse, it's always nice when they come back off holiday.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It was such a relief - I don't quite have 200 words yet, but I know the character point I want to make, so I'm sure I'll get there.

Just a shame it's not in a fandom that more of my friends share :S

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

While I've never really looked, I've never found decent CM fic. Just scary violent crap or horrible slash/het stuff (and we all know Hotch is really a violent Dom, right? *shudder*) I'm not all that familiar with the canon but if you need someone to check your Americanisms give a holler.

Congrats on the Children of Time nom!

and for the random question of the day... do you think you're going to bow out of the SGA fandom now that the show is over?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I have this theory that the quality of the fanfic is inversely proportional to the quality of the source. So when a source is patchy *coughSGAcough*, people write lots to compensate. But CM is very, very smart, very consistently written, and hitting that tone just right is *hard*. It's a crying shame, especially because it puts people off writing Gen :S

Thanks!

Hmmm. I don't consider myself to be that into SGA fandom - I write, but in a little niche where no one really notices - so it feels more like taking a step back than bowing out. Also, S5 was such a *searches for word* let down, that I'm finding it hard to get my squee back. I've got stories still to tell, but I'm going to take it easy on the writing front this year. Fewer, better stories is what I'm going for, and if that means just writing 6 in a year then so be it.

So I think that's a "maybe?" ;)

[azure-chaos.livejournal.com]

Hmm... What fandom(s) did you think you would get into but didn't/haven't?

ETA: YAY for CM fic :) There just isn't enough of it.

nate

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good question. Um. Probably The West Wing, which I adore but am not remotely fannish about. I also thought I'd get more into The Man From UNCLE, but that never materialised.

*g* I noticed that too! Where is it all? Where are all the good writers? *peers under sofa* It's just plain weird...