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Meta & Being Female is Unhealthy.

  • Apr. 21st, 2009 at 11:33 AM
naanima: ([SPN] Where it all began)
Testing out the new crossposting capabilities of dw.

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 [personal profile] 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 [personal profile] 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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naanima: (Default)
[personal profile] naanima wrote:
Apr. 22nd, 2009 06:07 am (UTC)
It's when one starts projects that capital becomes fairly important.

*NODS* So very true.

Oh yes... Misha Collins, by all reports, is a very interesting and smart individual, who tend to say things that make fandom feel really uncomfortable. The guy finds fandom, specifically slash fandom, to be absolutely fascinating, and that he would love to study fandom because it is so organic. Or something.

The whole thing is absolutely fascinating from the inside, sort of.
charmian: a snowy owl (Default)
[personal profile] charmian wrote:
Apr. 22nd, 2009 09:10 am (UTC)
Good for him. I wonder what he'll do next to rile up the fandom.

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