A few meta-ish thoughts; I’m not a contributor to fandom, at least not in the ways of fanfiction, fanart or other fan-activities. I do reviews, I meta and I squee, but mostly I consume fan-products; fics, arts, music-mixes and so forth. Even then I don’t do these activities with much discipline as my attention span is like that of a gnat. Sparkly things will distract me, and if a show becomes ‘bad’ or becomes something I no long care about I tend to stop talking about it all together. This is a bit of a double-edged sword; on the one hand it means I don’t get caught up in wank and have a much saner outlook on fandom (LAUGH people, laugh, we READ porn about FICTIONAL people, how can we take it seriously?), however, it also means I don’t have the social capital (thank you
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charmian) to influence others into my way of thinking (I like to be right, being wrong ruffles my feathers, I’m trying to change that) or to even discuss my pet-theories because no one knows me. Thank gods I have RL people to blather to. Anyways, my next fannish/meta-ish thought, the one I have had since Dear Awesome Bela was killed, and Castiel became the new bicycle for the SPN slash fandom. To put into context (post via
fools_game... I wonder how the user name tag will crosspost), when Misha Collins was asked why he thinks certain guest-stars are more popular than others."It's because I'm not female."
And with that I’m going to go and have some lunch.
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I'd like to see more Anna fanfic- maybe I'll have to write some (that way I get to legitimately complain ;)), because I like to see what fans do with characters, taking them beyond the boundaries the show allows. Except in this fandom, like I said, characters seem to get shrunken to shadows of what they are canonically.
I know for myself I don't like Wincest- I get it; I can rationalize it, I'm just not comfortable with it. And I do know that if Castiel had been a woman I would have wanted to turn her into a Tessa figure- a sort of guardian and companion rather than a sexual partner. I think that that probably comes out of the fact that Dean is portrayed as such a womanizer- I would have wanted the female angel to resist him. But that's just me. I'm sure the fandom would have thrown a massive temper tantrum, complete with crocodile tears and flailing fists.
I was also watching a interview with the actress who played Jo at a con- a fan noted that her storyline wasn't given closure, and the actress sort of looked disappointed and rueful. That's what bugs me about Kripke- he seems to listen to the tantrums. I didn't mind Jo, and I'd have liked to know what really happened to her.