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kindkit 2005-07-16: kindkit: communal fannishness:
I hadn't reckoned on the lure of communal experience. Looking over my flist, with all its cut-tagged commentaries, I keep wanting to join in the excitement. Reading the book next week will be fine and enjoyable, but it won't be the same. The thrill will have died down, people who are into the book will have moved on to elaborate discussion of how the series is developing, and I'll have missed the big group squee.
•pinkdormouse 2005-07-16: pinkdormouse: Writing-related Meta with Spoilers for HBP: When the post came early this morning I made the decision to comment on each chapter immediately after reading it, because I wanted a record of my immediate reactions. I wanted something I could look back on later and see what I got right or wrong when I couldn't possibly have been influenced by what was to come next. I purposely *only* posted to LJ without reading anything while I did it, so I couldn't be spoiled for later events in the book.
•versaphile 2005-07-17: versaphile: Done.: [links to a collection of HBP posts
•pandarus 2005-07-18: pandarus: Really not spoilery for HBP unless you are insanely spoilerphobic: I'm getting a bit antsy about this one, boys and girls. Of all the fandoms I follow, HP is the one that most makes me wince, the one that most makes me think that if and when we ficcers find ourselves in hot water? it's going to be because of HP fandom. There is so much dodgy dodgy stuff online, and HP is such a huge mainstream fandom, if you see what I mean - such a ubiquitous thing, such a CHILDREN's thing, for all that it's got the crossgenerational appeal going for it...this is the one that's going to get us in bother.
•karose 2005-07-17: karose: Look ma, I rec things!: ETA: No, I'm not taking down my HP fic. I can't imagine it being so offensive that someone would take action against it. If you want to take down yours, that's your deal. But the vibe I got off this post here wasn't half so much "we should disassociate ourselves from the weirdos to save our hides" as "o brave new world with such people in it."
•nifra_idril 2005-06-12: nifra_idril: Writing Process?: So katallison asks, how do you go about writing? My knee jerk response is the self-pitying, "I don't anymore, as my ability to write has dried up like a puddle in the summer sun, leaving behind only faintly damp and definitely unpleasant smelling cardboard." Then I swoon onto a divan, and demand smelling salts while my ancestors wail and I contemplate the rest of my non-writing life as one filled with despond and resentment and am generally a drama queen, cursing Thoth all the while.
•scatteredlogic 2005-07-18: scatteredlogic: Observations of an HP fan... (No spoilers for HBP): looking at the hoopla (thanks, [info]whitemunin, that's the perfect word for it) in the HP fandom, and I've been struck by the passion that most people feel toward their favorite characters.
•xtricks 2005-07-18: ds_discourse: Ray Two!!: met Ray Kowalski first through fanfiction, adored him (and the male to male sex!) and purchased all the due South DVDs available. I must say that the Ray K of fanfic is very different, in my eyes, from the Ray K of the show. I confess - though I've come to adore CKR and am following him through several different shows - I'm not so fond of the canon Ray K as I am of the fanon Ray K.
•executrix 2005-07-19: executrix: Cover Versions: Really, the heart of my transgression-optional theory of fanfic is that yes, there are fics that are novelizations of episodes, missing scenes, and Giant Rats of Sumatra (i.e., things alluded to in canon but not actually "shown"). But by and large fanfic consists of things that, well, never happened in canon, although the degree to which they couldn't have been broadcast, or how far over the prostrate dead body of the author they'd have to be to be commercially distributed, naturally varies.
•melannen 2005-07-19: melannen: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky:
I'm sitting here catching up on the tabs open from yesterday and procrastinating on finishing my flist catch-up. Because I know it's going to be nearly all-HBP, all the time, for the rest of it. And I'm not terribly interested in reading that, I've realized. Well, I am interested in reading what you all have to say, because despite being pathologically asocial, I do care about the travails of everyone whose life I've been reading about, so I won't be able to just skip over all the HBP entries. But I'm not at all interested in HBP discussion just for the sake of discussing it
•bethbethbeth 2005-07-19: bethbethbeth: What the Future Holds: HP and . . . DS? (not spoilery): Can I just channel Capslock!Harry for a moment and say "BUT I DON'T WANT A CHAPTER THAT TELLS ABOUT THE SURVIVORS' POST HOGWARTS FATES!!!"// There. Got that out of my system. But honestly, that's the last thing I want. I know a lot of people despise the ending of Due South because of the [often ludicrous] futures we're given for the main characters, but since (a) the series had ended long before I became fannish about it, I couldn't bother wasting my time fretting about it, and (b) the 'ride off into the sunset" ending it had given to my pairing of choice made me happy, I didn't have any strong objections.
•aycheb 2005-07-18: aycheb: Ch-ch-ch-changes: Some of the first stories told to young children involve transformations. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the ugly duckling a swan and Cinderella goes to the ball. In adolescence such optimism is often rejected as naïve and the grotesque metamorphoses of horror movies find more favour. The changes that produce a potential superhero, a Spiderman or a Buffy the Vampire Slayer, lie somewhere between these two extremes.
kindkit 2005-07-16: kindkit: communal fannishness: I hadn't reckoned on the lure of communal experience. Looking over my flist, with all its cut-tagged commentaries, I keep wanting to join in the excitement. Reading the book next week will be fine and enjoyable, but it won't be the same. The thrill will have died down, people who are into the book will have moved on to elaborate discussion of how the series is developing, and I'll have missed the big group squee.
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pinkdormouse 2005-07-16: pinkdormouse: Writing-related Meta with Spoilers for HBP: When the post came early this morning I made the decision to comment on each chapter immediately after reading it, because I wanted a record of my immediate reactions. I wanted something I could look back on later and see what I got right or wrong when I couldn't possibly have been influenced by what was to come next. I purposely *only* posted to LJ without reading anything while I did it, so I couldn't be spoiled for later events in the book.•
versaphile 2005-07-17: versaphile: Done.: [links to a collection of HBP posts•
pandarus 2005-07-18: pandarus: Really not spoilery for HBP unless you are insanely spoilerphobic: I'm getting a bit antsy about this one, boys and girls. Of all the fandoms I follow, HP is the one that most makes me wince, the one that most makes me think that if and when we ficcers find ourselves in hot water? it's going to be because of HP fandom. There is so much dodgy dodgy stuff online, and HP is such a huge mainstream fandom, if you see what I mean - such a ubiquitous thing, such a CHILDREN's thing, for all that it's got the crossgenerational appeal going for it...this is the one that's going to get us in bother.•
karose 2005-07-17: karose: Look ma, I rec things!: ETA: No, I'm not taking down my HP fic. I can't imagine it being so offensive that someone would take action against it. If you want to take down yours, that's your deal. But the vibe I got off this post here wasn't half so much "we should disassociate ourselves from the weirdos to save our hides" as "o brave new world with such people in it."•
nifra_idril 2005-06-12: nifra_idril: Writing Process?: So katallison asks, how do you go about writing? My knee jerk response is the self-pitying, "I don't anymore, as my ability to write has dried up like a puddle in the summer sun, leaving behind only faintly damp and definitely unpleasant smelling cardboard." Then I swoon onto a divan, and demand smelling salts while my ancestors wail and I contemplate the rest of my non-writing life as one filled with despond and resentment and am generally a drama queen, cursing Thoth all the while. •
scatteredlogic 2005-07-18: scatteredlogic: Observations of an HP fan... (No spoilers for HBP): looking at the hoopla (thanks, [info]whitemunin, that's the perfect word for it) in the HP fandom, and I've been struck by the passion that most people feel toward their favorite characters.•
xtricks 2005-07-18: ds_discourse: Ray Two!!: met Ray Kowalski first through fanfiction, adored him (and the male to male sex!) and purchased all the due South DVDs available. I must say that the Ray K of fanfic is very different, in my eyes, from the Ray K of the show. I confess - though I've come to adore CKR and am following him through several different shows - I'm not so fond of the canon Ray K as I am of the fanon Ray K.•
executrix 2005-07-19: executrix: Cover Versions: Really, the heart of my transgression-optional theory of fanfic is that yes, there are fics that are novelizations of episodes, missing scenes, and Giant Rats of Sumatra (i.e., things alluded to in canon but not actually "shown"). But by and large fanfic consists of things that, well, never happened in canon, although the degree to which they couldn't have been broadcast, or how far over the prostrate dead body of the author they'd have to be to be commercially distributed, naturally varies.•
melannen 2005-07-19: melannen: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: I'm sitting here catching up on the tabs open from yesterday and procrastinating on finishing my flist catch-up. Because I know it's going to be nearly all-HBP, all the time, for the rest of it. And I'm not terribly interested in reading that, I've realized. Well, I am interested in reading what you all have to say, because despite being pathologically asocial, I do care about the travails of everyone whose life I've been reading about, so I won't be able to just skip over all the HBP entries. But I'm not at all interested in HBP discussion just for the sake of discussing it
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bethbethbeth 2005-07-19: bethbethbeth: What the Future Holds: HP and . . . DS? (not spoilery): Can I just channel Capslock!Harry for a moment and say "BUT I DON'T WANT A CHAPTER THAT TELLS ABOUT THE SURVIVORS' POST HOGWARTS FATES!!!"// There. Got that out of my system. But honestly, that's the last thing I want. I know a lot of people despise the ending of Due South because of the [often ludicrous] futures we're given for the main characters, but since (a) the series had ended long before I became fannish about it, I couldn't bother wasting my time fretting about it, and (b) the 'ride off into the sunset" ending it had given to my pairing of choice made me happy, I didn't have any strong objections.•
aycheb 2005-07-18: aycheb: Ch-ch-ch-changes: Some of the first stories told to young children involve transformations. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the ugly duckling a swan and Cinderella goes to the ball. In adolescence such optimism is often rejected as naïve and the grotesque metamorphoses of horror movies find more favour. The changes that produce a potential superhero, a Spiderman or a Buffy the Vampire Slayer, lie somewhere between these two extremes.