fandom lifespans

[childeproof]

Further to various recent conversations with orlisbunny and lobelia321, and the faint but unmistakable sound of People Moving On - also of made_up quoting Oscar Wilde on the ridiculousness of the emotions of those we have ceased to love - it occurred to me that LOTR may not last forever as a fandom. The films are out, the premieres are premiered, the Oscars are bagged,

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[sparcck]

Elijah did this thing at the TORN party. Someone said, it's all over now and he smiled a little and shook his head and mouthed 'no it's not.'

That's how I feel. I feel like there's so much still to explore and so many people here that I found through lotrips and that will always be connected to the fandom in my head. I'm not going anywhere.

Also, wow, I read Boiling Point over the other day and I realize I still haven't given you proper feedback because damn. Tender slice of testicle. Yes.

[childeproof]

I was about to say in outrage 'I never wrote 'tender slice of testicle'!' but of course, I did. There's nothing odder than revisiting fics, really. What strikes me now is that you wouldn't think the person who wrote that was a vegetarian, would you? It has a faintly culinary air...
*rolls eyes at self*

Am incredibly jealous re the TORN party - I haven't even read any accounts of it that went beyond 'Hysterical Squee'. Have you posted one? I must have missed it, if so. Or can you rec any? What a promising thing for Elijah to say, especially after all that swimmy-eyedness.

Glad you are stuck fast in LOTR!

[childeproof]

I'm not going anywhere. I think I may have an overdeveloped sense of loyalty.

*looks with diagnostic eye at self*

Evidence:
I've been happily monogamous since the tender age of 19, and have wanted to do the same thing for a living since I was 11 (the same period I fell for LOTR). I only ever eat Cox's Orange Pippins - all other apples are as nothing. I even felt guilty slashing the hobbits in my last fic rather than Sean and Viggo, and can never imagine violating that OTP.

It may be just that I'm considering expanding fandoms interests and am imagining apocalyptic scenarios. Anyway, v glad you have nowhere else to go!

[childeproof]

Yes, I will add and not abandon. I've actually seen Viggo or SB in very few other things - Bean in a truly monumentally terrible football film called When Saturday Comes, which had only the two advantages of featuring Sean in a team bath, and one of the actors from Queer as Fuck - and Viggo only in Portrait of a Lady (That chin!) and A Walk on the Moon. (Those blouses! That waterfall!) I fear I think of these films as Boromir and Aragorn Just Being Silly...

I read an excellent series on The Faculty by waxjism, but the lunatic-zombie teacher at the beginning of the film frightened me and I ran away.

It's litslash which is attracting me at the moment - specifically EM Forster's Maurice, which was my Slash Awakening.

[sheldrake]

Well. I'm not going anywhere just yet. I read in a few fandoms, and very occasionally write outside of lotrips. And the fandom and I will have the occasional tiff during which I flounce off somewhere else for five minutes. But at the end of the day, this is the one that caught my imagination and ran away with it. And this is where all the cool people live. So there.

Don't worry, I can't help but feel the old girl's got some life in her yet.

[childeproof]

*checks pulse of LOTR and is pleasantly surprised*

H'rah!

[cruisedirector]

I have been slithering in and out of original Trek fandom since I discovered it in its organized form more than 20 years ago. Some people move on and it takes me years to find them again (in one case, ten years, until she popped up in Voyager fandom). Some people hide out for awhile and then come back in force. Some people and I have nothing fannishly in common anymore but we became such good friends in the fandom that when the fandom was gone, it hardly mattered. And yeah, some people disappear altogether, but in the end those don't end up being the people I miss in life. The fandom is always there, meanwhile, waxing and waning and waxing again...

[childeproof]

That is soothing, I must say.
(You do realise I look to you as a kind of Lascaux Cave Painting of Fandom, don't you? And that's that's intended as a compliment....?)

*thinks happily about waxing and waning of fandom, like moon, and seasons and happy things*

[cruisedirector]

But...but...I'm not even forty yet! *sobs* Actually I am glad I was around fandom pre-internet, it gives me perspective on some of the things that happen here in fast motion that used to happen in slow motion. But yeah, like seasons, just more intense.

[lobelia321]

What kind of perspective? How did things use to happen?????

[msilverstar]

I'm not going anywhere either, darling. Our boyz will live their lives and continue to surprise us. PJ promised fun stuff on the EDVD in November, and then more outtakes and bloopers to come later. And we the fans/readers/writers love each other. So I hope we can keep it going.

[childeproof]

Eh, can someone quickly become a Famous Director and cast them all in something again? Right now? I keep casting them in adaptations of novels if I'm insomniac - this is my can't sleep routine. I cast novels in my head. I've been casting Donna Tartt's The SEcret History for so long that my original cast is now decades too old for it. (No parts for the LOTR boys there, I fear, unless Ian McKellen would make a good Julian Morrow?
*taps foot impatiently for EDVD*