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selenayThis morning the sea was completely motionless when I left. So still it looked like glass, even out near the rocks by my mailbox where there are usually at least small waves. It was rather eerie.
I'm reminded yet again why I love being a part of fandom. Right now, it's in full-on explosion. I haven't seen fandom like this since the week between Stolen Earth and Journey's End last year and this time it's not about Doctor Who. There is so much happy chatter and sharing of resources and discussion of Star Trek. People that I didn't know were Star Trek fans are discussing the movie and the original series, the parallels and the differences, giving recs for novelisations generally being fans. There are new communities popping up all over the place. It's so much fun! Fandom only does this kind of explosion once or twice a year and I'm having so much fun.
It will die down in a few days as people settle into the new grooves and decide where in the Trek world they want to reside. I'm holding off on joining any communities (apart from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
trek_news) until I've seen which comms will actually have sustained interesting content :-)
Of course, fandom will have Explosion 2 for 2009 when the Harry Potter movie comes out and that will also be amazing fun :-)
One of the fun things is the reaction of the knitting community. When crafters and fandom collide, the reaction is great. People are already working out patterns for knitting Scotty's hat and Spock's sweater (from the early Vulcan scenes) and I'm sure the costumers out there are working out patterns and fabric resources for uniforms. I've never been in the crafting world for this kind of thing before - it's fun!
In less fun news, I am currently working on something where I need to trace the source of a column in a table and work out why certain values are loaded. For the fourth time, I have declared that I don't understand what I thought that I understood and gone back to the drawing board. This code is a nightmare!
But to cheer me up, Annie loves me soooo much that she wouldn't let go from her morning cuddle so that I could go to work. She wraps her front legs around my neck and holds on like a baby. It's utterly adorable and would have been even more adorable if she hadn't needed two time-outs in the craft room for bad behaviour this morning :-D
I'm reminded yet again why I love being a part of fandom. Right now, it's in full-on explosion. I haven't seen fandom like this since the week between Stolen Earth and Journey's End last year and this time it's not about Doctor Who. There is so much happy chatter and sharing of resources and discussion of Star Trek. People that I didn't know were Star Trek fans are discussing the movie and the original series, the parallels and the differences, giving recs for novelisations generally being fans. There are new communities popping up all over the place. It's so much fun! Fandom only does this kind of explosion once or twice a year and I'm having so much fun.
It will die down in a few days as people settle into the new grooves and decide where in the Trek world they want to reside. I'm holding off on joining any communities (apart from
trek_news) until I've seen which comms will actually have sustained interesting content :-)Of course, fandom will have Explosion 2 for 2009 when the Harry Potter movie comes out and that will also be amazing fun :-)
One of the fun things is the reaction of the knitting community. When crafters and fandom collide, the reaction is great. People are already working out patterns for knitting Scotty's hat and Spock's sweater (from the early Vulcan scenes) and I'm sure the costumers out there are working out patterns and fabric resources for uniforms. I've never been in the crafting world for this kind of thing before - it's fun!
In less fun news, I am currently working on something where I need to trace the source of a column in a table and work out why certain values are loaded. For the fourth time, I have declared that I don't understand what I thought that I understood and gone back to the drawing board. This code is a nightmare!
But to cheer me up, Annie loves me soooo much that she wouldn't let go from her morning cuddle so that I could go to work. She wraps her front legs around my neck and holds on like a baby. It's utterly adorable and would have been even more adorable if she hadn't needed two time-outs in the craft room for bad behaviour this morning :-D
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Date: 2009-05-13 03:42 pm (UTC)The atmosphere's pretty bloody brilliant really. *passes the goldfish bowl-size cocktails*
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Date: 2009-05-13 11:14 pm (UTC)*guzzled large cocktail* Thank'ee ma'am! I like paddling here in the happy shallow place :-D
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Date: 2009-05-14 07:43 am (UTC)HP? DH. I think I was one of several million people who yelled 'WOO GO NEVILLE MOTHERFUCKING LONGBOTTOM!'
This is on a completely different scale. It's universal grinning and nodding and arm-flailing, and I don't feel like I have to be defensive about not liking anything after TNG and only owning 3 movies on DVD. Read this yet? Do not read while trying to swallow liquids. I got fruit juice up my nose, not pretty.
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Date: 2009-05-14 11:17 am (UTC)*g* I was right there with you :-D
t's universal grinning and nodding and arm-flailing, and I don't feel like I have to be defensive about not liking anything after TNG
*g* People are actually admitting to liking DS9. In public! It's like there suddenly is no shame no matter which bit of the franchise you loved or hated.
Read this yet? Do not read while trying to swallow liquids. I got fruit juice up my nose, not pretty.
*splorfle* That was brilliant - thank you for pointing me to it! I've put it into the list of fics that will be reviewed on my site when I have five minutes this weekend :-D
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Date: 2009-05-14 01:12 pm (UTC)I still think he's a bigger pile of win than Harry. :-D
*g* People are actually admitting to liking DS9. In public! It's like there suddenly is no shame no matter which bit of the franchise you loved or hated.
O_O People liked DS9? This film's a Trekkie-outer. :-D
Now there I draw the line!
*splorfle* That was brilliant - thank you for pointing me to it! I've put it into the list of fics that will be reviewed on my site when I have five minutes this weekend :-D
*salutes* It's had half my flist in hysterics for the last 24hrs. :-D The slouching and 2 degrees got me. That and Chekov is KEWT! X-D
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Date: 2009-05-14 01:41 pm (UTC)As much as I adore Harry, Neville is the one who grows most beyond what we see in the first book. And he doesn't have the natural abilities and advantages that Harry has, so his progress to kick-ass wizard is in many ways more impressive :-D
People liked DS9?
I liked DS9! And TNG. Lots interest in Voyager around S2 and didn't really last through S1 of Enterprise, although I do plan to work through that one on DVD because I have multiple f-listies who love it.
Now there I draw the line!
Check out her post: http://calapine.livejournal.com/555609.html :-D
It's had half my flist in hysterics for the last 24hrs
I totally see why :-D The slouching, everything that is Spock or McCoy, Chekov being adorable...and genuinely funny! Hee!
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Date: 2009-05-14 02:23 pm (UTC)WORD!
I liked DS9! And TNG. Lots interest in Voyager around S2 and didn't really last through S1 of Enterprise, although I do plan to work through that one on DVD because I have multiple f-listies who love it.
I didn't. Caused no end of chaos at conventions that did, I was a steward at one convention series for 3 years and didn't recognise any of the people I was escorting. Vaguest was meeting Armin Shimerman in a lift and not sussing until he appeared in Buffy. Funniest was innocently babbling away about stuff in general to Alexander Siddig in the bar while my Ex went completely '*narrows eyes* THIS is my girlfriend get your own! *lip quiver* Plz dunt leave me for teh hawt actor man??' because he DID watch DS9.
I saw half the first season of Voyager on con-duty, wasn't impressed. Same for Enterprise on I saw that on TV. TNG? My favourite episode is The Naked Now. I'm not very good at being a Trekkie.
Check out her post: http://calapine.livejournal.com/555609.html :-D
Ah, that's a defence of The Good Bits! That's not a defence of Final Frontier!
I totally see why :-D The slouching, everything that is Spock or McCoy, Chekov being adorable...and genuinely funny! Hee!
You forgot Uhura and her 'Captain' inflections! X-D It's everything that rocked about the movie amplified to micro-sequel levels.
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Date: 2009-05-14 05:08 pm (UTC)Aww. There is no good or bad fan: just fans who like different things about their show :-D
that's a defence of The Good Bits!
Well, er, yes. But by defending The Good Bits, she's defending its right to exist. Although possibly with all the other bits removed and the Good Bits expanded. A lot :-D
You forgot Uhura and her 'Captain' inflections!
I totally did, and I loved those bits! Really, the whole fic is just lol-able.
so I'm keeping my eyeballs stuck to journalfen, just in case. :-D
Your sacrifices will be remembered :-D
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Date: 2009-05-14 06:01 pm (UTC)*raises hand* I like two shots of crack with a batshit chaser?
Well, er, yes. But by defending The Good Bits, she's defending its right to exist. Although possibly with all the other bits removed and the Good Bits expanded. A lot :-D
It's. A. Trap.
I totally did, and I loved those bits! Really, the whole fic is just lol-able.
^.^ *kiwi-clap*
Your sacrifices will be remembered :-D
Seeing the trouble I've got into on that server, you're more right than you know. O.o
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Date: 2009-05-15 11:42 pm (UTC)I like good characters and can be distracted from the plot holes by shiny things :-D
It's. A. Trap.
But wouldn't it be fun to watch that version? All plot removed, just the good bits and perhaps expand on the best bits. Most of which involved camping, hiking or falling off rocks.
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Date: 2009-05-13 06:58 pm (UTC)Plus apparently many more people than I knew about are apparently old-school fans. Heh.
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Date: 2009-05-13 11:18 pm (UTC)Plus apparently many more people than I knew about are apparently old-school fans. Heh.
That's what I found with Doctor Who. I've been a DW fan for only a little longer than I've been a Trek fan (my first memory of deliberately sitting down to watch Trek was when I was around six) and I had a ton of friends who had been live-long Doctor Who fans, but none of us realised it until the new Doctor Who started. Suddenly the hideously uncool fandom was cool and we got to talk to each other and discovered that we're all old school fans. It was amazing!
Sometimes, I really love Internet fandom stuff :-D
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Date: 2009-05-14 01:49 am (UTC)Plus, now I have an excuse to write all the K/S bonding fic of my dreams. Um. Yeah.
I'm not really that into Who, but I can appreciate how the circumstances might be similar.
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Date: 2009-05-14 11:20 am (UTC)*g*