June Something: Days Five to Eight

[smallhobbit]

Day 5: You get to fuck/marry/kill in one fandom.  What's the fandom and who in the fandom fits each item?

This is difficult.  I like the characters I concentrate on in my main fandoms, because otherwise I doubt I'd spend much time with them.  But I don't want to fuck any of them (most have far too many complications to even consider that) and I wouldn't want to kill someone just because I didn't like them.  So I shall go for Sanditon again.  Fuck Sidney Parker, in order to tell him the following morning he was just a one-night stand; marry Babington, who seems a really nice guy, although I know Esther's happy and I wouldn't want to break them up; and not kill but permanently remove Tom Parker.


Day 6: What is something which has surprised you about a fandom?  Like, you expected the main fandom pairing to be X/Y, but the main pairing in fandom is actually X/Z.  Or a pairing you expected to be slashed together isn't very popular?

Not any specific fandom, but in general that fans can be very protective of certain characters who they permit to behave in a dubious fashion, but completely intolerant of other fans.  The desire to protect a creation and in doing so hurt other creators.


Day 7: What is your favourite celebrity interaction from any fandom you've had?

I don't go to conventions, and have only rarely gone to a stage door, and my favourite interaction wasn't really a fandom (unless you count Julius Caesar as a fandom) and they weren't celebrities.  However, a friend and I had been to see a performance of the play at the Roundhouse in London and afterwards we'd gone into the bar nearby for a drink.  Sitting on the next table were some of the actors, and my friend had squealled 'That's Greg Hicks'  and we'd sat muttering that we couldn't go and ask for autographs because they were just having a drink, and it wouldn't be fair to disturb them, when one of them said it was fine, they'd be happy to sign for us.  So we got to chat - or I chatted, my friend was too gobsmacked at meeting Greg Hicks - and it was lovely.


Day 8: What is a kink that fandom introduced you to, and you said, "Yes, please!"

Um, competency?  Being turned into rabbits (although that is generally a result of incompetency)?  Tea and cake cures most things?

Comments

[squidgiepdx]

> Tea and cake cures most things?

Dammit. Now I want to read a story with this!

[smallhobbit]

I have written several for Lucas North (Spooks - MI5) where this is the case.

[squidgiepdx]

I have Spooks/MI5 on my "to watch" list, so I will be looking forward to your fics! :)

[smallhobbit]

I've only watched Series 7 to 9, for Lucas.

[corvidology]

Right there with you on competency... and then it made me realize how much I'm drawn to that in RL too. :D

[smallhobbit]

Yes - it draws me too.

[castiron]

Thirded.

[smallhobbit]

Clearly we're in good company!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, I have to remind myself to tread carefully and that most fans do not share my laissez faire attitude about ship and let ship. And fans interact with canon in different ways and develop their own head canons which they do guard sometimes with surprising violence.

My thought is that you came to fandom with your competency kink but that fandom just helped you put a name to it (and helped your kind friends put a name to it, too, so that they can write fics for you about it) but seriously when (because of your kink) I started looking at how competency/incompetency is portrayed in media, it did open my eyes.

[smallhobbit]

I fully agree. There's nothing wrong with head canon, but it's important to remember what's in your head may not be in someone else's. Which is probably a very good idea, considering some of the things in mine ;)

I'm sure I did - and I am always delighted when my very kind and lovely friends write competency fics for me.

[mafief]

I’m all for the cake thing.

[smallhobbit]

More cake, less angst!

[margaret_r]

Nothing really surprises me any more with fandom and the way fans react to certain ships. It's sad the way some fandoms implode the way they do just because not everyone has the same mindset.

And yes to the tea and cake, although coffee and cake is pretty good too!

[smallhobbit]

It no longer surprises me, because I've seen it happen, but it still saddens me when it does.

Clearly tea/coffee and cake is a popular thing :)

[luthienberen]

I think head canons can be wonderful things especially when "adjusting" if it went askew historical wise or anything really. However, I wish fans would recall headcanons are just that - not canon but your own personal perspective and may not be someone else's head canon. Live and let live or simply avoid (another reason I love dreamwidth and thought Livejournal did well - various communities for canon, pairings etc.).

With you on the competency trope/kink! I also support tea and cake. :D

[smallhobbit]

Yes, live and let live, or avoid if it's not your thing.

My flist appears to be of one mind re competency and tea and cake - I have the best flist!

[luthienberen]

❤

I can add chocolate to tea & cake ;)

[debriswoman]

I find fandom reactions and relationships and angles on characters fascinating...Tea, cakes and competency...absolutely:-)

[smallhobbit]

We all have our own takes on our characters, which I imagine provide as much an insight into ourselves as anything else.

Tea, cake and competency appear extremely popular!

[debriswoman]

Well...who wants an incompetent baker....?

[chroniclesofdylan]

Competency, yes. I hate it when characters who are supposedly experts in the field, yet don't know what they're doing. It's put me off more than one show.

[smallhobbit]

Yes - or where all the other characters are shown as incompetent so the main character can shine.