Lesser Loves
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kangeikoWe all rave about our favourites. We do. All I have to do is call up my flist and there is a page full of rave reviews of Sirius and Severus and Arvin and Jack and the Doctor and the other Jack and Londo and G'Kar and... well. I have noticed that 1) they tend to be predominantly male (a tired conversation that I shall not have again), 2) it's the same pairings, same characters, over and over again. This is why i tend to fall out of love with fandoms for months at a time (a fickle thing, yes I am). This is also why, I suspect, the HP fandom is obsessing with style over substance: that is, stylised, word-orientated short fics over longer, plot-driven fics. I'm guilty of the same thing. There isn't that much left for me to say about those particular characters, and so I resort to putting words together in no particular order, trying to see which visceral feelings I can squeeze out of them. Much like pulling teeth, I think. Judging from what amount of writer's block and lack of creativity complaints coming from my flist, I guess that many people are feeling the same.
There just isn't that much to say anymore. Certainly I don't have that much left in me to say about Severus Snape (at least until July 16!) or Remy LeBeau (which is why the terrible "Cold" series will likely never be finished, 'tho I have the majority written in draft form). Many people are feeling the same. Look around you: how many writers are throwing their hands up and quitting the Buffy fandom? How many writers abandoned B5 for Stargate, for that matter? In the HP fandom, rare pairings are some of the fasten-growing 'ships out there. This, my friends, is a good thing.
I call upon you now to embrace your dissatisfaction with yet another Snape-had-a-bad-childhood story, or the upteenth Sydney-and-Sark-shag-in-a-strangely-stylised-manner-that-leads-to-Revelations fic. Focus, instead, on those lesser loves that you forget to rave about: the characters that keep you spell-bound but that somehow never make it on to "Fave Characters Eva!11!" lists.
I'm going to offer up one love today:
Alias: Marshall
Marshall is the guy I would love to write for but never could. His innate optimism and his determination to see the best in everything means that he is often ridiculed, both on screen and in fic, which makes me exceptionally angry. But Marshall doesn't mind. In S4, he does spectacular things (which I cannot explain because it would be spoiler-y) that only prove my love of all Normal Characters. Asking a hero to do heroic things is a bit by-the-by for me: that's their job, after all. But juggling a wife, a baby and saving the world while the rest of your team are frantically dickwads to you takes a special kind of sainted patience. (Incidentally, this is also why I loved S1!Sydney so much)
Other fandoms (and loves) to follow. Right now I would give my eye-teeth for some lovely Marshall fic. Or, indeed, a Marshall icon.
There just isn't that much to say anymore. Certainly I don't have that much left in me to say about Severus Snape (at least until July 16!) or Remy LeBeau (which is why the terrible "Cold" series will likely never be finished, 'tho I have the majority written in draft form). Many people are feeling the same. Look around you: how many writers are throwing their hands up and quitting the Buffy fandom? How many writers abandoned B5 for Stargate, for that matter? In the HP fandom, rare pairings are some of the fasten-growing 'ships out there. This, my friends, is a good thing.
I call upon you now to embrace your dissatisfaction with yet another Snape-had-a-bad-childhood story, or the upteenth Sydney-and-Sark-shag-in-a-strangely-stylised-manner-that-leads-to-Revelations fic. Focus, instead, on those lesser loves that you forget to rave about: the characters that keep you spell-bound but that somehow never make it on to "Fave Characters Eva!11!" lists.
I'm going to offer up one love today:
Alias: Marshall
Marshall is the guy I would love to write for but never could. His innate optimism and his determination to see the best in everything means that he is often ridiculed, both on screen and in fic, which makes me exceptionally angry. But Marshall doesn't mind. In S4, he does spectacular things (which I cannot explain because it would be spoiler-y) that only prove my love of all Normal Characters. Asking a hero to do heroic things is a bit by-the-by for me: that's their job, after all. But juggling a wife, a baby and saving the world while the rest of your team are frantically dickwads to you takes a special kind of sainted patience. (Incidentally, this is also why I loved S1!Sydney so much)
Other fandoms (and loves) to follow. Right now I would give my eye-teeth for some lovely Marshall fic. Or, indeed, a Marshall icon.
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Date: 2005-06-22 08:44 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/189211.html
1. http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/187725.html
2. http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/188189.html
3.http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/188664.html
Or check out
http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/190949.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/190101.html
(Also, a J/N from her, because I can never resist pimpin' the Nack: http://www.livejournal.com/users/theohara/193497.html#cutid1)
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Date: 2005-06-23 03:02 pm (UTC)Marshall!love, mmmmmm.
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Date: 2005-06-23 03:07 pm (UTC)Yes, I had the same reaction when stumbling upon her stuff--she's a genius; her VM Season Two is excellent, and her posts hilariously funny.
She's a Marshallmallow.
(Oh, okay, this is not even funny if you do watch VM, I guess...)
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Date: 2005-06-23 03:42 pm (UTC)Better than my typical experience of the 'net (insert terrible joke here: Veni (yes), Vidi (yes), Visa *headdesk*)!
She's a Marshallmallow.
(Oh, okay, this is not even funny if you do watch VM, I guess...)
Alas, no veronica mars for me. 'tis a pity, as everyone state-side and on the mainland appears to get it. why is the uk being this useless?! hmpf.
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Date: 2005-06-23 03:52 pm (UTC)Dude, tell me about it!
THEY KEPT BROADCASTING GARDENING SHOWS IN THE BUFFY SLOT! AND--SNOOKER!
::cries, just remembering it::
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Date: 2005-07-11 10:43 am (UTC)::cries, just remembering it::
*pets you*
There, there, honey. There is all of Buffy on video and DVD now, no more reliance on nasty tv....
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Date: 2005-07-11 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 10:59 am (UTC)www.dvdplus.co.uk
and
www.dvd.co.uk
all have fabulous deals. *dangles*
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Date: 2005-07-11 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 12:45 pm (UTC)You know what would be awesomest? Bein' in London, and jobbing there (I do need to find some work until November 1st, but anything that makes money and ain't super-hard will be tough to find)...
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Date: 2005-07-11 01:20 pm (UTC)and, until then, you could stay at mine, because we have the biggest futon in the world, in a large house in suburbia.
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Date: 2005-07-11 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 01:56 pm (UTC)i'd definitely look into what kind of job you'd want in london, honey. i'd say that the whole thing is very do-able indeed. *beams*
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Date: 2005-06-23 08:17 am (UTC)However: Mashall fanfic for you (http://www.livejournal.com/community/alias_fiction/82059.html). Also caters to an idea you had two days ago.*g*
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Date: 2005-06-23 03:06 pm (UTC)Well, there are plenty of B5 characters out there, after all. I'm thinking of Talia, for instance, or Kosh, or (at least for me) Michael Garibaldi (who I used to write - but only in relation to Bester - and who I vaguely loved... but, again, only in relation to Bester.
Except that he still makes me squee whenever I rewatch the dvds.)