"Being a fan helps no one" [or something to that effect]).
Yes, that's still my signature line on LJ :). On my DW it's "To the uneducated, A is nowt but three sticks". I do live my fandom life according to the first rule though, because although I might squee, I do reserve the right to point out things which make me pause.
I remember you had issues with the black man/(younger?) white woman pairing--am I remembering this correctly?--and with fandom was treating them, so I'm happy to hear you've found something about the pairing that interests you and inspires you and keeps you writing.
Oh yeah, I had issues. I think I've gone into it with great detail, and I'm trying to keep my head down for the while, so to speak so [heavily redacted].
the smaller (non-major pairing) parts of fandom can always be a bit more vibrant, and it doesn't take that much.
Yeah, it can be. But like I said, it's pretty much two (canonically) gay white dudes in the fandom, which is okay, but not subversive (but then again, is fanfic subversive? As much as we romanticise it to be so, especially since we write the stories as things are and not as they could be? This in terms of being in lockstep with the echoes of privilege found in society).
This is the $60,000 question, or whatever the phrase is. (What's the British equivalent?) But I suppose that's the issue with good writing more generally, so it's not a bad problem to be working on. M.
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Yes, that's still my signature line on LJ :). On my DW it's "To the uneducated, A is nowt but three sticks". I do live my fandom life according to the first rule though, because although I might squee, I do reserve the right to point out things which make me pause.
I remember you had issues with the black man/(younger?) white woman pairing--am I remembering this correctly?--and with fandom was treating them, so I'm happy to hear you've found something about the pairing that interests you and inspires you and keeps you writing.
Oh yeah, I had issues. I think I've gone into it with great detail, and I'm trying to keep my head down for the while, so to speak so [heavily redacted].
the smaller (non-major pairing) parts of fandom can always be a bit more vibrant, and it doesn't take that much.
Yeah, it can be. But like I said, it's pretty much two (canonically) gay white dudes in the fandom, which is okay, but not subversive (but then again, is fanfic subversive? As much as we romanticise it to be so, especially since we write the stories as things are and not as they could be? This in terms of being in lockstep with the echoes of privilege found in society).
This is the $60,000 question, or whatever the phrase is. (What's the British equivalent?) But I suppose that's the issue with good writing more generally, so it's not a bad problem to be working on. M.
Well, it makes you think.