Stuff I'm reading

[minxy]

For a good time, read Thirst by resonant8, then go comment here. John/Rodney, PG-13 or R, something like that. One of the best Rodney POVs I've seen yet, very good thought processes for him. Yum for first time fics. *snicker*

And, incredible Jack/Daniel friendship fic. Echoes of Autumn by moonshayde. Very nice. And good to read because I'm still teasing through the teamficathon assignment story idea and it's hard to switch mindsets into gen when you've been so 'shippily/slashily oriented.

Firefly/Alias crossover by vaznetti. Oh, WIP in shorts. Sadly, am now committed to the WIP and must watch carefully. Is too short, though! Too short now! I want a Sark-pet

Autumn by wisdomeagle. Firefly, gen. Oh. Oh, so gorgeous. It's... EVERYONE SHOULD GO READ THIS. It's lovely, and it's appropriate for Halloween. Oooh! Here's a line: "Somewhere, some calendar marks today as All-Hallows Eve, and the ghosts of all their old battles float to the ground into a leaf-pile of memories."

Fruition (the quince fic) by lyrstzha. More Firefly goodness. Simon/Mal, for like, half a SECOND *starts, then glares at plot bunny who bounced energetically forward*. Naw, it was cute little Firefly fluff. "...Your brother know you’re up here pontificatin’ on food?" Hee! Quince.

I have a thought on my fandoms and whether I'll read fanfic in them.

My first obsession was Star Trek. I probably would have read fanfic, had I known about it, but Trekkers as a group intimidated, and I was a pre and teenager, which means that the person I was bears very little resemblance to the person I am, and therefore we shall dismiss any teenager fandoms as not relevant. Besides, I was a rabid shipper.

Anyway, my primary fanfic fandom is SG-1. Not quite as into Atlantis because I haven't had the time to get invested in a new show. Watch QAF, but again with the lack of time haven't made it all the way through the series and therefore not so much with the fanfic.

So then there are the secondary fandoms: Alias and Firefly and Harry Potter. Have read a smattering of fics in each, but am getting more interested in the Firefly now. I'll also read some crossovers or fics in fandoms I am not invested in, like Andromeda or Farscape, where I have a basic understanding of the characters, behaviors and premise, or the Magnificent 7, where I know nothing except there are 7 guys and the slash is rampant and sometimes delphia2000 points out teh p0rn.

So here's my feeling, based on something I read in a meta somewhere: Stargate as a series underwhelms it's fans. Commentaries will frequently hold comments about what they've gotten away with or canon they themselves can't rationalize... they are getting by. But they have this premise, omg, that's so wonderful. And they have characters with fantastic personalities and relationships and actors behind them.

At this point I lump RDA in with the writers and producers in having a great premise and not so much with the living up to potential, but see? I love Jack. In fanfic. On screen I find him wanting, and not in the good slashy sense. The man's been phoning it in for years.

Alias and Firefly and Harry Potter? With the exception of the HP films, none of them underestimate their fans. Most throw in more information than you can possibly process and have such pride in what they're doing that the entertainment is genuinely intellectual, and I would laugh if anyone said that about SG-1 at this point.

But Firefly is no longer the weekly crack it could have been had Fox not cancelled it. We get incredible and satisfying films (plural, we hope) but long wastelands in between. So I begin to read fanfic, not because I think we fans can do it better, but just because we have to fill the void somehow. But Alias and HP I do not feel drawn to the fics, though I will read them if they come highly enough recommended or I adore the author's other work. I've been trained to wait for hiatus to be over, or to double or to deal with Jennifer Garner's busy film shooting schedule. Or wait years between books with a movie or two involving adorable little moppets running about in robes. I'm prepared, I'm okay with the agreement.

Stargate sometimes hits the homerun with a show once or twice a season, but you really never know on a week to week basis. Plus, with the aforementioned lack of time, I tend to watch them when I happen to stumble across a rerun, then for an hour I fall in, then I tumble out on the otherside, already having moved on in my brain to whatever else I should have done in that hour (or 44 minutes or whatever) and sometimes grateful for the brain candy that can be so easily dismissed until you need a little romance or love or angst or action or humor, and then you find a fic that fits the bill in that moment.

I think. I think that's why my fandoms sort themselves as they do. Someone must do right by Sam and Daniel and Jack and Teal'c and Mitchell and Janet, and I'm not so in love with canon that I think the show's official writers have any right to claiming emminent domain. Fanon is not canon, but Gods, sometimes I wish...

And that is my story, and my ode to the beauteous writers of SG-1. How I love thee. How I love thy stories. How I sometimes wish the Bridge Studio people would hire you full time...

Yes. Stopping now. *G*

Comments

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

Thanx for the rec! That was wonderfully written *g*

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

The McShep one that is. (I really wish you could edit comments)

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

It would be nice to be able to edit comments. As it is, all our mistakes are borne for the world to see and ogle and laugh and mock... short of deleting the comment, but there is a time limit on that, yes?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

at the moment I wonder if I'm not over using the 'edit last post' feature in my LJ client. Note, for example, the essay that has appeared since this post was originally, erm, posted.

You're right about the comments, though. I have wished many, lo many, a time to be able to edit out proof of my gaffs.

And crap, but I do believe we may have migrane symptoms onsetting. Right. now.

*rushes to preemptively take ibuprophen*

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

There probably is a time limit. I have deleted comments before and re-posted if I've made a bad enough mistake though *shrugs*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Plus, if you delete, you'll have to retype all the code anyway, right?

And, what's the time limit? Anyone know? 24 hours?

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

Not a clue as to what the time limit is.

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

Personally I think you can only delete it while you are still on that LJ page. The moment you leave you probably can't come back and delete it. *shrug* Not sure tho. I usually wait a while before I come back anyway.

[kikkimax.livejournal.com]

The man's been phoning it in for years.

Yes, yes, YES! Thank you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

It took me a while to understand the difference between Jack and RDA... they look so much alike. I mean, at least with MacGyver he had different hair, so I could differentiate on that basis. *G*

RDA doesn't have his heart in it. I miss Jack, but I've been missing him for a long time. Long time.

[kikkimax.livejournal.com]

I agree about his heart not being in it. I'd like to say RDA being gone is what's wrong with season 9 for me but I know that's not it. For me he's already been gone for a long time.

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

Okay, I finally read your essay here. (Bad Mabi, posting replies without having read the content? Oops.) It is so eloquent and precise. I totally agree with you about the lack of "something" from the show. I suppose it really is simply the premise and the characters themselves that I love. Most of the fanfic has really expanded on both of those aspects, and in a lot of cases very very well. It would seem the writers/producers/directors/powers-that-be are afraid to make commitments. I don't necessarily mean that in terms of relationships. There are many "holes" in what is actually canon. Sometimes this does make the characters and/or plot flaky. I wonder at this point if I may have subconsciously filled in some of these blanks with fanon, because I still defend Stargate with a passion to my friends and family.

But perhaps we can consider Stargate an "interactive fandom"? Would the show/franchise be so popular if not for the fans who take the effort to write, create and expand on this universe?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

By eloquent and precise you mean 'stream of consciousness but I can still understand you if I squint and tilt my head', right? I'm glad it made sense. Hope I still make sense since I'm all doped up now on migraine meds.

I would buy that I still love it because I've found the other fans, and the interactive part. Otherwise, I think it likely that my interest would have waned at somepoint... but I do love it. The only other show I keep track of the actual air times for is Alias. Honestly I only watch other shows by accident.

And, I think the essay, such as it is, may not have been there when you first responded. *G* Overuse of the edit button, my friend. Oh, yes.

TPTB are committment-phobic? I must ponder.