Adapting to fandom and other thoughts

[misscam]

Life. Blah. I shan't bore you with details, but BLAH I say. Blah!

First package of Who merchandise has arrived though, so yay. And customs didn't tax me after all, so thank you, state of Norway. Wee Ten is now mine, as well as the books (signed, not bad). Course, what I really want are the audio books, which are read by David Tennant, but not out till early July. BBC is such a mean tease.

Meanwhile, a question for you Brits - I have heard good things about Life on Mars, and it is very soon out on DVD - so should I fork over yet more money to the BBC and get it? Any other recs while at it?

And the answer to how far you can push the line in Supernatural fandom is... Not that far.

Doctor Who fandom - at least my corner of it - hasn't really had anything much in that vein, though there was a bit of a rapefic bruhahaha at GAFF. Humhum. I have noticed that my own lines have shifted a bit, though. Years ago I was all "RPF is wrooooong!", now I'm all "eh" and find it creepy at times, but mostly just whatever floats one's boat (or as I said to vaskalcorp today, "let he who is without kink throw the first stone"). Does fandom adapt you, I wonder?

So apparently Bush snubbed the Norwegian PM

*eyeroll* Always nice to be reminded how wee we really are. Of course, watch the US tell us we should increase oil output again next week. Then we're suddenly important. Hah. Bite me, Bush. I'll give you socialism germs.

And finally, for today's meme: In your fandom(s) of choice, what is the line you think most of the fandom would react badly to being crossed and why? Or has it already occured? I am curious.

Comments

[nymeria.livejournal.com]

What really gets me is how completely up in arms the people of fandom_wank were. I mean, seriously. It wasn't that bad. I've read shota more explicit and liked it, but the way the f_wank crew were foaming at the mouth I thought it was going to be another Charred Earth/Lost Elves.

And before anyone tells me to 'get help,' I can distinguish between fantasy and reality, kthx.

[nymeria.livejournal.com]

Oh, and for the meme: I don't know, really. I personally 'ship an incest 'ship and love it; the FMA fandom bitches about it but really has no choice but to put up with it, given the fact that there's about eight hundred people in the main pairing comm alone. I've written and read shota (child/child) for my pairing before, and I've had friends write necrophilia and bestiality just because they can. They weren't flamed for it. Someone in Japan released a comic of the series featuring a 5 year old girl, her huge dog and a suit of armour going at it; people said 'ewww' and wandered off.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Was actually the author attitudes that got me rolling my eyes - I think GAFF has rather jaded me in terms of what fics that now disgust me. And sibling incest squicks me less than parent/child incest as a rule, anyway.

And intent does count, too.