Fannish 5:

[fajrdrako]

From fannish5: What were your five favorite things about your fandom(s) in 2007? Though certain fandoms will always be dear to me - like X-Men, Francis Crawford of Lymond, the Bujold novels, and live theatre - what stood out in 2007 was Torchwood and Doctor Who as my current most-loved fandoms. Is that one fandom, or two? Could be either. They overlap. My greatest love is Doctor/Jack slash, and that had an iffy situation this year. The porblem with canonical slash pairings - the writers of the show interfere with their own continuity and changes to the relationship. The nerve! But this isn't entirely a bad thing: it seems to have kept my creative interest fresh.

Favourite things about my fandom in 2007:

1. Other fans. Seriously. All of you. With special thanks to a few people like rosiespark, nina_ds, kikibug13, isagel, myfavouriteplum, chatona, and - well, heck, everyone who talked to me, who were such fun to discuss things with, from the moral/cognitive confusion I felt on "The Last of the Time Lords" to the cuteness of Captain Jack's smile. It was fun when you agreed with me and it was fun when you didn't. And then there were all of you who made gorgeous icons and shared them, and wrote wonderful stories and let me read them, and who commented on my stories, and issued me challenges, and who sent me links to (or copies of) great shows with the likes of Eccleston and Tennant and Barrowman in them, or who sent me clippings from the UK (extra special thanks to silverwhistle on that one), and otherwise helped me to enjoy my fandom in this wonderful playground that is LJ.



2. Video parties: I love inviting people over to see my fannish shows. We eat and talk and watch and talk and eat and watch and quibble. I especially thank people like josanpq and lmondegreen for being so appreciative of the Torchwood episode "Captain Jack Harkness". It's been great fun to watch Doctor Who and Torchwood with maaseru and maaboroshi, who aren't fans, but who are indulgent of my whims and who make interesting comments; and with commodorified and auriaephiala, who are simply lovely people and fun to watch things with. I wish I had infinite time and energy to do this sort of thing more often - !



3. The BBC. I gripe about some of their idiocies - not letting Canadians see the Torchwood website? keeping the starting date of series two secret? messing with my mind? - but they have wonderful online stuff for us, and they make lovely shows, and I'm revelling in it. I love it that they make "Confidentials" and "Declassifieds" so we can see Tennant and Barrowman clowning around like fanboys. I love it that they license action figures, and that there are published books, and that their DVD sets have the best, most artistic packaging I've seen.



4. Russell T. Davies. Sometimes he drives me mad and sometimes I adore him, and I am eternally grateful for his revival of Doctor Who and his creation of Torchwood - yes, I know he didn't do it singlehanded, but if he hadn't done what he did, I wouldn't be watching and enjoying this delightful, historically rich, infinitely enchanting and complicated fandom. An extra tip of the hat also to my favourite Doctor Who writer, Steven Moffat, and my favourite Torchwood writer, Catherine Treganna.



5. John Barrowman, the man who never sleeps and who never ceases to entertain. "You can sleep when you're dead," his mother told him, and he took it to heart. When he isn't filming Torchwood or Doctor Who he's on a variety of British radio shows, game shows, interview shows, cooking shows, kid's shows, and reality TV. And when he isn't doing that, he's doing print interviews and photoshoots and reading audiobooks and writing his autobiography (with his sister). And when he isn't doing that he's supporting good causes like Gay Pride and animal welfare. I've never known a star to be so accessible - and that means, accessible to me, in a foreign country and another hemisphere. I'm loving it.

Comments

[isagel.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Thank you, sweetie. I've very much enjoyed discussing things with you, as well.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Awww! I love talking to you! I just wish I lived close enough to come to your video parties - they sound heavenly. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I just wish I lived close enough to come to your video parties - they sound heavenly. :)

As far as I'm concerned, they are. (g) And I wish you lived close enough to come to them, too. Except that you live in such a wonderful place, I wouldn't want you to lose that - what I really want would be a mutual teleportation device, perhaps a wormhole linking my apartment with your courtyard so we could visit back and forth easily without all that messy airplane-and-money business.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

There shall be never-ending discussions about the cuteness of Jack's smile and it shall make everyone very happy indeed. Because I say so.

Uhm. Yeah. Hi :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

here shall be never-ending discussions about the cuteness of Jack's smile and it shall make everyone very happy indeed. Because I say so.

Yes! I look forward to every nuance!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Let us discuss this smile here, first:



What do you think? *snickers*

Any excuse to post pictures of Jack :D

The joy of beauty...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeee.

(That was me swooning in joy.)

I love the way his eyes look in this picture, with the crow's feet and the downsweep of the eyelashes.

I like the reminder that he drinks water to be, it seems, hydrated.

Beautiful ear, too. Is it just me, or does it look as if he just had a haircut?

Those dimples are amazing.

Lucky Gwen!

Re: The joy of beauty...

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Lucky us, 'cause we get it all on the screen and can take caps of it and make icons and stare at it for hours and discuss it *bounces*

I love his skin and his nose and yeah, he looks like he just had a haircut and the dimples! And I adore how utterly happy he looks there. And carefree.

Re: The joy of beauty...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Just - so enjoying himself. And in control of the situation. Aaah, Jack.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for hosting the video parties -- it's so much more fun watching fannish shows with others. And I never would have seen as much of Torchwood w/o you!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too - I look forward to more.