Oct. 4th, 2003

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Got this from [livejournal.com profile] schala4:

1. What was your first fandom? The first thing you were obsessively fannish about? It doesn't have to be a TV show or movie.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I was twelve when I saw my first episode: "The Dove Affair". I saw it in the States in a funny little hotel room in Lordsburg, New Mexico - my parents were taking me to visit my grandfather in Arizona for Christmas. I loved it. When I got back home, I recruited my friends. We wrote fanfic, made maps and pictures. I collected the toys, the books, the record album. The central question was, which do you like better, Napoleon or Illya? Most people I knew preferred Illya. I preferred Napoleon. I always like the dark-haired ones.

X-Men was in many ways my fandom before that, depending how you define a fandom - it was a fandom of one: I didn't know any other X-Men fans, so even though I was passionately into it, there were no stories, no discussions, not even pen-pals. I used my creative energy in becoming a letterhack, which is a lapsed art now.


2. Are you still interested in your first fandom or are you so over it?

I have fond memories but I'm not interested in U.N.C.L.E. as a fandom now. The old thrill is gone. I find that it aged (or dated) badly. There are other fandoms I discovered in my early teens that are still with me, like Dorothy Dunnett and Tolkien.

X-Men is still very much with me. It has grown with the times. Adapted. Mutated.


3. What was your first zine/fic fandom?

K/S. Star Trek. It was all there was in the way of slash back in those antediluvian days of the 1970s when I first discovered fandom and discovered zines. I was enthralled.


4. What was your first online fandom?

Dorothy Dunnett. Essentially, back in 1990 I got a computer and got online so I could talk to other Dunnett fans.


5. What was your first live journal fandom?

Smallville. Just a matter of timing, really, though I suppose it could have been The Lord of the Rings that caught my focus, or X-Men. But the SV LJ community is terrific - articulate, interesting, and with scope.

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I just read - and was very impressed by - the recap of Smallville and its fandom that [livejournal.com profile] velvetglove put on [livejournal.com profile] crack_van at Smallville- Gayest. Show. Ever.. It sums the show and the fandom up beautifully and with wit.

For the record, I don't think Smallville is really the gayest show ever - not when there are a few things on TV like Queer as Folk. But. For a show that isn't advertised as gay it is, yes, pretty much the gayest show ever and I love it for it.

I am quite excited about this community [livejournal.com profile] crack_van: people seem to be outdoing themselves in an effort to do justice to their favourite fandoms, and I love it. Haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean there yet, have I just missed it? I was delighted to see my favourites, besides Smallville: The Professionals, comic-based X-Men, Horatio Hornblower and The Lord of the Rings. Or a beloved but lesser fandom for me, From Eroica With Love.

I also want to read about the fandoms I know nothing about - things like Alias, Farscape, Roswell - mostly just names to me, and I'd liek to know more of what they are about. There are other fandoms I haven't noticed there yet - is there an index? - like Oz or Buffy or Firefly - maybe I just haven't browsed enough, or maybe they are yet to be posted. I'm sure that if they haven't been, they will be. Or at least... I live in hope. I need more time to browse.

And I want to read those recommendations. So far, in general, in the fandoms I know about, the story recs seem well-chosen.

This is the sort of thing that makes me believe that fandom is a good place to be.

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So I went to bed late - way later than I intended - and woke up before six. Rather than going back to sleep I started to read e-mail and livejournals, and, even worse, to write in mine - we all know where that leads.

Now it's light, or what passes for light in early October. I guess I should do some yoga, and other useful things. Too bad I can't go to the fitness club till nine on Saturdays. I have an appointment to get my hair done at 9.30. "Done" means "cut". Somehow it went suddenly from "looking okay" to being too long, like in one day. Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention. How did that happen?

It looks as if it will be another busy day. I'm thankful for this early-morning time alone to relax and read and write. I'll be tired later, though. Or maybe not. I shouldn't create self-fulfiling prophecies. I'll be okay.

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I just read [livejournal.com profile] lmondegreen's entry regarding the Canada Gazette item on Canadian television.

    the average Canadian spends over 26 hours per week watching television.

Ouch. I have some catching up to do.

Then the addendum: and most of it is American TV.

Yeah. No surprise. But a lot of it is sort of half-Canadian, like Highlander or Stargate, or filmed in Canada so we call all pretend we're seeing New York or Kansas when we're seeing Toronto or Vancouver. That really doesn't count when it's American money that makes it, Americans who are the stars, American writers who write it, American sensibility and outlook that goes into it, and they all pretend it isn't set in Canada but in Cascade or Seacouver or wherever. A handful of familiar faces might be Canadian actors,usually in the background. Let's not even mention Kristen Kreuk; I'd rather forget her.

There have been good Canadian shows. I have fond memories of Seaway, an obscure show lost in the mists of time. Due South has reached a sort of classic status, I think, and it's the only Canadian TV show I can think of that's famous internationally, though I've yet to figure out why anyone thinks it should be included on BBC Canada when there's not a British character in the whole show.

Are there other internatially known Canadian TV shows? There must be. Red Green? I know some people in California who watch that. Reboot - now, that was a good one. Then there's the so-famous-it's-embarrassing Anne of Green Gables. And (following a train of thought) Jalna - I'd forgotten all about Jalna till just now, maybe because I never watched it. But I knew it as part of my ambient culture.

When I think of Canadian TV, I think of stuff from my childhood, when American TV was much less accessible - causing me great frustration. There was Don Messer's Jubilee and Front Page Challenge and kid's shows like Razzle Dazzle, Chez Helene, and (my favourite) The Friendly Giant - "look up, look waaay up".

Excuse me while I wallow in nostalgia.

Skin...

Oct. 4th, 2003 08:29 am
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Skin. No, I'm not talking about Lex Luthor on his tropical island.* I mean the LJ skin that they switched to a while back. When the change was made I noticed a lot of people said they didn't like it and the rest of us didn't comment - waiting to see if it grew on us, probably.

My initial impression was favourable and I still like it. A lot. Better than the previous design. I find it generally easier to use, and much more visually pleasing, especially in the colour scheme.

* I may, however, be thinking about Lex Luthor on a tropical island....

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