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.

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Eh, most of the RPF I've read was originalfic masquerading as fandom-related fic, so while it doesn't really bother me, it rarely pulls my interest, either. Half the time you could change the names and still be left with the same overall impression.

Treebeard/Gollum and Buckbeak/Peeves really do desensitize you. I used to be a little cautious about slash when I first started into fandom, but I've read enough fic, good and bad, that it takes a lot to surprise me. I still get squicked by mpreg, bestiality, and mother/daughter femslash, but they don't really surprise me anymore. I've learned to accept a great deal more in the course of a good story, though many of my worst hang-ups still tend to be a sign of a poorly-written story.

LotR, for all its Catboy!Eretors and Celebrian-level badfics, still seems to have certain lines that newbies and fandom dinos alike refuse to cross: turning Eowyn into a wangsty Sue is still liable to earn you flames. Plenty of fangirls will accept a more powerful OC Sue, but Ho!mione-izing the White Lady is frowned upon.

Potterverse, speaking of Ho!mione, has no line. Write it and they will wank. I don't care if it's a G-rated Arthur/Molly fluff-fest; there will be wank in the Harry Potter fandom. It's as common as sonic screwdriver jokes in Whoverse.

Dr. Who I haven't read enough badfic for in order to determine the borderline. (And I'm happy that way, thanks.)

As for Discworld, it has had its share of wank over Vimes/Vetinari, a popular fanon slash pairing, but I've seen Cheery/Drumknott, Rincewind /Luggage and/or /Greebo, bodyswitching Carrot and Detritus, and haven't batted an eye. True, they were all more or less written in good taste, but I think it'll take quite a lot to truly shock this fandom.

I've read Animorphs slash/bestiality/incest/orgy all within the same fics, and while I find it squicky, there are others who wouldn't be phased by it at all. At least it made a change from the usual "OC" Sue infestation; there are preciously few actual goodfics in a small, dying fandom written in primarily by inexperienced young teens. Still, I find myself occasionally attracted to it for old time's sake.

Star Wars has canonical Sues, for gods' sakes. There's even less that can shock here, when so much of the traditional "shocking" tropes have been played out in the EU books (most of which I don't read for a reason).

[misscam.livejournal.com]

There's been Discworld wank? Oooh, I have been missing stuff. This warrants some poking about.

I do sometimes think the more fandoms you poke through, the more you see and become accustomed to the idea of, anyway. Afetr a while, it takes some to phase you.

At least that's what's happened to me, I think.