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December Posting Meme: Jan 11 (a bit late)
Ahaha I said I'd do this and then immediately forgot about it. OOPS. Anyway.
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makamu asked: Say somebody is trying to understand what makes you as a fan tick. What 5 canons or fanworks should they consume to get an understanding of teyla the fan?
They should probably start with Star Trek TOS. That's where I started. But I didn't start with the TV show, I started with the novels. So ... read some Classic Trek novels. I remember I liked L.A. Graf a lot, who wrote kind of ditzy, plotty novels that usually featured Kirk and McCoy plus whump, as well as Sulu, Uhura and Chekov as a disaster OT3. I liked The Three Minute Universe and The Entropy Effect and probably others, but this was all a very long time ago. I'm not listing the fan favorites (everything by Diane Duane) not because I didn't like those, but because those weren't my favorites, which is kind of essential to the understanding of me the fan: I love fandom, but I don't always love what fandom loves (and that's okay!).
(Do also watch a couple of TOS eps. Journey to Babel, Amok Time, City at the Edge of Forever. The fun ones! And if you want, read the episode novelizations, because I read many of those before I got to see them on TV. Oh, and the movies! Yes, even the fifth one.)
Then ... Sherlock Holmes. I don't really care which iteration, as long as it's not BBC Sherlock. Don't get me wrong, I had my fun in Sherlock fandom and I don't want to make anyone who loves it feel bad, but to me, BBC Sherlock does not capture the thing that I love about Sherlock Holmes, so I wouldn't recommend it for this purpose. I like the Guy Ritchie movies, they're good fun; I like the original stories; I would even count House MD as a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. So yeah, consume some Sherlock Holmes.
Next on the list, The Thick of It. You can take or leave the movie (In the Loop), but the TV show is mandatory. Watch it at least four times (all four seasons) to get all the nuances. There will be a quiz at the end. (No, not about the plot. The quiz is about how to swear in Scottish.)
Number four, let's make it Lost Tomb Reboot. I could have listed the entirety of DMBJ here but I'm not evil. This show could optionally be substituted by RTD's Doctor Who years (the, uh, first ones, not the upcoming ones), since the vibe is similar: chaotic, unhinged, melodramatic, and queer. Both shows thoroughly captivated my id.
Last one, I'm going to list one of my own fics, which is Take Me To Fucking Church, a Thick of It 50k slow burn through UK politics from 1985 to 2012 in which Malcolm Tucker fights tooth and nail not to be shipped with Jamie MacDonald. I consider this the best thing I've written. It's probably the fic where I managed most to write exactly what I wanted to write.
That's it! That's a lot of media to consume xD. If you wanted to analyze for themes and stuff... I suppose I like oddball over-the-top melodrama with wild tone shifts and a lot of plot, though the plot making sense is optional. And I will always be happy about depictions of relationships that are so close they transcend friendship, but that are not traditionally romantic.
For Dec 11,
makamu asked: Say somebody is trying to understand what makes you as a fan tick. What 5 canons or fanworks should they consume to get an understanding of teyla the fan?They should probably start with Star Trek TOS. That's where I started. But I didn't start with the TV show, I started with the novels. So ... read some Classic Trek novels. I remember I liked L.A. Graf a lot, who wrote kind of ditzy, plotty novels that usually featured Kirk and McCoy plus whump, as well as Sulu, Uhura and Chekov as a disaster OT3. I liked The Three Minute Universe and The Entropy Effect and probably others, but this was all a very long time ago. I'm not listing the fan favorites (everything by Diane Duane) not because I didn't like those, but because those weren't my favorites, which is kind of essential to the understanding of me the fan: I love fandom, but I don't always love what fandom loves (and that's okay!).
(Do also watch a couple of TOS eps. Journey to Babel, Amok Time, City at the Edge of Forever. The fun ones! And if you want, read the episode novelizations, because I read many of those before I got to see them on TV. Oh, and the movies! Yes, even the fifth one.)
Then ... Sherlock Holmes. I don't really care which iteration, as long as it's not BBC Sherlock. Don't get me wrong, I had my fun in Sherlock fandom and I don't want to make anyone who loves it feel bad, but to me, BBC Sherlock does not capture the thing that I love about Sherlock Holmes, so I wouldn't recommend it for this purpose. I like the Guy Ritchie movies, they're good fun; I like the original stories; I would even count House MD as a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. So yeah, consume some Sherlock Holmes.
Next on the list, The Thick of It. You can take or leave the movie (In the Loop), but the TV show is mandatory. Watch it at least four times (all four seasons) to get all the nuances. There will be a quiz at the end. (No, not about the plot. The quiz is about how to swear in Scottish.)
Number four, let's make it Lost Tomb Reboot. I could have listed the entirety of DMBJ here but I'm not evil. This show could optionally be substituted by RTD's Doctor Who years (the, uh, first ones, not the upcoming ones), since the vibe is similar: chaotic, unhinged, melodramatic, and queer. Both shows thoroughly captivated my id.
Last one, I'm going to list one of my own fics, which is Take Me To Fucking Church, a Thick of It 50k slow burn through UK politics from 1985 to 2012 in which Malcolm Tucker fights tooth and nail not to be shipped with Jamie MacDonald. I consider this the best thing I've written. It's probably the fic where I managed most to write exactly what I wanted to write.
That's it! That's a lot of media to consume xD. If you wanted to analyze for themes and stuff... I suppose I like oddball over-the-top melodrama with wild tone shifts and a lot of plot, though the plot making sense is optional. And I will always be happy about depictions of relationships that are so close they transcend friendship, but that are not traditionally romantic.