fandom yay and nay

[schmerica]

I actually went to check out the fanfic_hate thread on Smallville, but it turned out to be incredibly horribly boring. Honestly, if I'm going to go to the effort and guilt to go through all of that, you'd think it could at least be entertaining in a car-crash or I'm-a-horrible-person-for-reading-this sort of way. Instead it just seems to be round #8,000,124 of the "Smallville is mean to newbies" argument.

On the other hand, I am anticipating the ds_undercover stories with much excitement. So much new fic by so many cool people! All at once! Whee!

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[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

I found it reassuring, actually. Like everyone else, I have an "Oh, no!!! Maybe I do suck!!!" anxiety or two at various points. But after reading that thread, I feel so much better. That's the worst that can be said, even with the critics hiding in anonymity and hunting in their own little herds of chickens? That's it? Whew! I can write in confidence again.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Eh, I hadn't been expecting to mentioned anyway; I haven't written in SV in ages and I was never particularly interesting and polarizing to begin with. Seeing one's own name must add some interest to the proceedings, though.

I have a theory that all the really interesting SV fandom drama occurred during the s1 hiatus or very early season 2. No one puts in the effort anymore.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

The funniest part for me is when they're explaining about how the old 'cabal' may be gone from SV, but there's a new bitchy elitist ruling class! Like-- OMG-- Slodwick and Happyminion and, uh, Velvetglove!

Slod? WENDI? Velvetglove? *giggling* Oh my God. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS FANDOM!

How timid of a mouse do you have to BE, if people like Slod and Velvetglove, (who's actually on record as saying that she doesn't think it's right to say mean things about people, ever) are the evil BNFs that you are soooooo scared of?

I mean, baby, what happened to the good old days? Like, when you had to churn out fic AND run all kinds of fandom shit AND be a complete jackass in public on a semi-regular basis in order to be a BNF, man? I'm just sayin', I'm sure Slod and Wendi and Velvetglove are giving it their best shot, keeping busy with the shunning and the elitism and the secret death chats and all... not that I would really know, since apparently they have some kind of secret pact to exclude me... bitches... but really. It's obvious that standards have gone WAY down since *I* was on the jackboot squad. :D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, I KNOW. I mean, what sort of standards did the evil cabal set, anyway?

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

We had standards. Sekrit ones.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Too sekrit, apparently.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

*shoots Livia* *summons the secret ninja assassins to dispose of the body* No, we didn't.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ninjas! Yay!

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! *dies*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...You haven't even seen that show.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Er. Well, but I...

...curse YOUR sudden but inevitable betrayal!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[copracat]

No one puts in the effort anymore.

I know. Ain't nothing like the serious wars we used to have in the old days. Tsk. Those newbie fandoms with their baby kerfuffles.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think I'm too recent for a lot of the *really* classic fandom kerfuffles, really.

[copracat]

No, you were early SV, first season, yeah? You haven't missed a thing.

Checking on when you started postign SV, I just went back to read one of the first feedback emails I ever sent you (yes, I keep it) and I said, " I wish you'd gotten into fandom years and years ago so there was megabytes of your stories to be read. I wish time would go faster for me and slower for you so you could write more and I could read it more often."

And then you turned out to be amazingly, wonderfully prolific. And there are megabytes.

Yay. :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I was thinking too recent in fandom in general, not SV in particular. Although now that I think about, maybe that's not true either -- new crazy things do sprout up all the time. It's just easy to go "Everything really crazy-ass and weird happened before my time!" (The due south fandom I entered, for example, is a cute little fluffy bunny.)

(I remember that feedback! It made me all warm and fuzzy and happy then, and it does now, too. Thank you!)

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Seeing one's own name must add some interest to the proceedings, though.


Not when it's just another post from that same poor girl from fandom_wank who's still hung up on "Organic" as if it were some definitive classic of the fandom recced and beloved by all the sycophants instead of a vignette written in the first days of the fandom that I doubt even my friends remember. Of course, it's also at the top of my SV stories page, so if you want to trash me without actually investing much effort in reading my stories, it must be pretty convenient, but come *on*. At least trash the incest story or something! It's so disappointing.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm still hoping the BNF complaints will lead on to the "het and gen writers are so oppressed!" theme. That one's my *favorite*!