ANOTHER use of the sv icon (this is why i keep you around, alien boy)

[schmerica]

Memories that come to mind when I think over my two years in Smallville fandom (Feb 2002 - Jan 2004):

+ "OMG, Handful of Dust!"
+ "OMG, Mercy!"
+ "OMG, Immortality!"
+ "OMG, Hope is an evil bitch and Chloe is a OTP-destroying whore!"
+ Het vs slash CAGEMATCH.
+ The jackboot cabal rules ALL.
+ SV fandom is elitist and mean to newbies!!!
+ Present tense is the devil.
+ Sentence fragments are the devil.
+ SV is homophobic for not making Clark/Lex canon!!!
+ Incest is OOGY and WRONG. Sickos.
+ "meta is boring/you're ruining my squee" vs "well, excuse me if I like thoughtful discussion!"
+ Clark is evil mean bad boyriend man! GROVELFIC AHOY.
+ "Your argument is obviously invalid because you are a bad mother and a pedophile. SO THERE."
+ "OMG, people make fun of badfic!"
+ "OMG, why must you all hate Jonathan so much!!! ...Oh, wait, we hate Jonathan now, too. Nevermind!"

Memories that come to mind when I think over my two years in due South fandom (Jan 2004 - Jan 2006)

+ "OMG, Ray Kowalski doesn't smoke!"

...That's it.

I don't know if it's just the old, settled-down, closed canon fandom thing or not, but dS, you lose at kerfuffling.

Comments

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey, I've never been a DS fan, but I was in fandom generally when the Ray Wars were raging, and I don't think anything in Smallville fandom comes close to the vicious nastiness of those. And that was pre-LJ, when a lot more of it was lists, and secret private lists, and semi-secret mocking other people lists, and public lists with private bitching in the background, and, yeah, no. due South is peaceful now, just like salt is cheap and ubiquituous now. Doesn't change the fact that at one point it was so prized and rare people used salt as money (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt#History).

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

What she said. dS just proves that it is actually possible for a fandom to be all wanked out, because SV *never* came close to the level of wank dS sustained during the Ray Wars.

Indeed, dS provides major data for my theory that "the truly nuclear fandom wars occur when actors leave or, worst of all, are replaced". omg You cannot imagine the level of wank dS went through -- it was kind of a scorched earth thing, with refugee fans moving out to other fandoms in search of a little peace & happiness.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Um -- yeah, I know. That's why I specified the era of dS fandom I was referring to in the entry, and also hypothesized that its current peacefulness was a result of years worth of calming.

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I misunderstood you, but I read "dS, you lose at kerfuffling" to indicate SV fandom (in a general sense) as wankier than dS fandom (in a general sense), rather than a comparison of dS now to SV then.

[grey853.livejournal.com]

I was only in SV fandom for a short time during the first season before the bigwigs got a whiff of the lists and shut down the whole Superman can't be a faggot thinking by shoving Clark/Lana into hyperdrive. You're right on with the OMG shit that went on.

DS is so much better now than it used to be. I wasn't here during the Ray wars, but I think people are a little more tolerant than they used to be. Some read RayV, some RayK, and some even do the Ray/Ray thing, which is beyond me. Still, it's nice to have options and not be called an idiot because you happen to like one thing instead of the other.

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

dude, DS it WAY too polite to kerfuffle. its like, one will start and then someone is like, SCREW YOU! and thank you kindly.

THATS NOT A KERFUFFLE.

*giggles*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Can you imagine something like the Lexana thing in due South? Man, that would ROCK.

[ladysorka]

DS is just all wanked out. I mean, even when I'd never heard anything about Due South aside from the fact that it existed, I'd heard of the Ray Wars.

All our wank is in the past! We have learned from our mistakes!

...our possibility just gotten a whole new segment of people. *g*

[copracat]

OMG Due South!! I remember having to be vetted for a mailing list to make sure I wasn't a crazy from the Ray wars. I think there are fans still in hiding.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* That's kind of great.

[copracat]

If only some crazies from Smallville's mad days had gone in to hiding...

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

+ "OMG, Ray Kowalski doesn't smoke!"

oh, nice, pearl, way to bring up that particularly difficult time in our fandom. *criez*

(best! kerfluffle! ever! I so wish I could find that comment someone left, outlining how DS kerfluffles go now, with the, "no, no, your point is totally valid, I hear you. Alternatively, however..." Man. We have BLAIR SANDBURG-ESQE kerfluffles. we WIN.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. SO TRUE.