Mutual fannishness is yay

Visited seanchai in NY this weekend, where we went to Casino Royale and Tosca (we even went out to dinner at a real adult restaurant that served us alcohol beforehand, wearing suits, like real adults) and watched great volumes of Tsubasa Reservoir and season three due South.

Tosca, I've determined, is exactly like fanfic, right down to Scarpia's "Evil!Rapist!Seme" song about how he likes it when he has to force them. Oh, and the bit where Tosca is cradling Just-Been-Tortured!Mario in her arms.

Tsubasa is cute, and full of yay, confirming my conclusion that I quite like CLAMP when they're not writing X. Due South is likewise full of yay, and there really should be more h/c fic for it. Possibly a cross-over where Ray and Fraser both show up at the hospital from ER with wildly improbable injuries, and run into Dr. Carter.

Also, upon much learned deliberation and consulting of scholarly sources like wikipedia, the DSM-IV, and annecdotal evidence from our own experience with friends and relations, seanchai and I have determined that RayK has some mild bi-polar tendencies, or what is known in my mom's side of the family as "the Bad Genes" (the ones that make you ADHD, manic-depressive, prone to anxiety and mood disorders, or something else really irritating to other people). ( Ray's up, he down, he's a barrel of dead monkeys )

Old Fandom, New Fandom, and melodrama

People have been tossing around terms like “Old School” vs. “New School,” and Warm & Fuzzy” vs. “Cold and Prickly” to attempt to describe the shift that seems to have occurred/be occurring in some segments of fandom.

From the grand Bitchy Old Fan wisdom generated by five years in fandom, with the aid of a friend who’s spent ten years in fandom, I present a slightly different categorising system.

First Wave Fandom: Fanfic what was in zines.

Second Wave Fandom: Fandom what was on mailing lists.

Third Wave Fandom: Fandom what is on livejournal.

These waves aren’t by any means mutually exclusive—zines and mailing lists are still around, as are many fans who got their starts in zines or listservs—but the way fanfic is shared and disseminated and the way people enter fandom has changed with each “new wave.”

Now, I’m about to go one about some fannish history that doesn’t always involve me, and start making sweeping generalisations, so be aware that I may be theorising with insufficient data.

( Blah, blah, blah, I babble incoherantly )