Smallville Thoughts
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roxyI have COTW...that's all I really need.
I don't need the show. I don't need the pretty pictures on my TV screen, they are all here, and lots of folks I won't mention by name because the list is long and I don't want to leave anyone out take the pictures and make them even better—make what we really want to see.
I don’t need the show to tell me the story, I know the story.
I like what I read on line. I love the stories the fan writers tell, in all the many ways there is to tell the story. God, I love them all. Again, I won’t mention names because the list is so, so long, and I love so many people and I wouldn’t want to slight anyone.
I love this fandom. I say it again and again but I do—I love all the different people, and their likes and dislikes. I love reading enthusiastic reviews and recs, and it can even include enthusiasm over Lana—why not? It’s a big damn world and we don’t have enough time on it to snub someone for their likes. You might miss out on getting to know a wonderful person just because they like someone you don’t.
Me, I think Lana’s an asshole but hey! That’s just me.
So, whatever the state of the show (which I will be watching if it doesn’t hurt too much) it won’t affect my love for SV fandom. I think lots of you feel the same way.
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On The Other Topic Going Around
About that ‘all the good writers have moved on’ thing…well, I don’t feel that way.
Sure, I have nostalgia for the writers who don’t write in SV any more, I miss very much those stories that brought me here, but I saw as I came into fandom that moving on was a natural evolution type thing. In other words, I expected things to change. Some of the writers I fell in love with at the beginning had already long ceased to write in SV. The writers today are just as brill as the old guys. There’s so much stuff out there I can’t keep up and I know I’m missing so much good stuff it drives me nuts!
The best writers are gone--BULLSHIT!! That's all i have to say about that! *wink*
I don't need the show. I don't need the pretty pictures on my TV screen, they are all here, and lots of folks I won't mention by name because the list is long and I don't want to leave anyone out take the pictures and make them even better—make what we really want to see.
I don’t need the show to tell me the story, I know the story.
I like what I read on line. I love the stories the fan writers tell, in all the many ways there is to tell the story. God, I love them all. Again, I won’t mention names because the list is so, so long, and I love so many people and I wouldn’t want to slight anyone.
I love this fandom. I say it again and again but I do—I love all the different people, and their likes and dislikes. I love reading enthusiastic reviews and recs, and it can even include enthusiasm over Lana—why not? It’s a big damn world and we don’t have enough time on it to snub someone for their likes. You might miss out on getting to know a wonderful person just because they like someone you don’t.
Me, I think Lana’s an asshole but hey! That’s just me.
So, whatever the state of the show (which I will be watching if it doesn’t hurt too much) it won’t affect my love for SV fandom. I think lots of you feel the same way.
******
On The Other Topic Going Around
About that ‘all the good writers have moved on’ thing…well, I don’t feel that way.
Sure, I have nostalgia for the writers who don’t write in SV any more, I miss very much those stories that brought me here, but I saw as I came into fandom that moving on was a natural evolution type thing. In other words, I expected things to change. Some of the writers I fell in love with at the beginning had already long ceased to write in SV. The writers today are just as brill as the old guys. There’s so much stuff out there I can’t keep up and I know I’m missing so much good stuff it drives me nuts!
The best writers are gone--BULLSHIT!! That's all i have to say about that! *wink*
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9/25/05 01:37 am (UTC)That made me really sad to see when people said that thing about the good writers are gone. I have no trouble finding excellent writers to read in the sv fandom.
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9/25/05 05:10 am (UTC)Thank *you*!
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9/25/05 03:16 am (UTC)Complete and Utter Bullshit. I mean, come on, when I read the Dust Bowl story and Whitney caning Lionel and the licking and the shoe or whatever and Strange Boys and...puh-lease.
I came into SV around season 2 and think the writers are still going strong.
Hmmph, telling *me* all the good writers are gone. They can talk to the hand.
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9/25/05 05:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
9/25/05 03:53 am (UTC)But there are completely new people, who seem to have only started posting stuff recently, as well as all the people who've stuck around for quite a while. I don't think that the fandom is going to die until the actual show beats it to death with a stick, and even then it's going to be wanting to go for a walk...
People still write Forever Knight fic, for Pete's sake! Killing a fandom is hard!
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9/25/05 05:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
9/25/05 05:22 am (UTC)Me? Ah, thank you so much. You're wonderful for my ego. :P
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9/25/05 05:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
9/25/05 06:05 am (UTC):D
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9/25/05 09:22 am (UTC)totally agree with you here!
and for the great new authors, way to go, you are *new* to me, and if more authors coming with fics of your quality, I have faith in fandom.
and i repeat what i said in em's entry:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/emrinalexander/613068.html?thread=5805004#t5805004
and you are also in my entry at madelyns glee week entry.
and now i am off to read *GREAT* fic meaning you next chapter of DPJ