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Star Wars and the smallness of The Empire Strikes Back
A great, bubbly, and very enjoyable read about why Empire was the best Star Wars movie:
The Empire Strikes Back is faster and more intense-but only because it’s smaller and more personal.
It also made me laugh because I'm pretty damn sure the fanfic-and-meta-and-fanart cohort of fans* (as opposed to the male uh, I mean, the what-is-Darth-Vader's- ( Read more... ) -
Meme: Ten Fics That Stayed With You
In a new post, list ten FICS that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” works, or even all the same pairing or fandom, just the fics that have touched you or that stuck with you somehow.
I swiped this from moetushie, whose answer to the meme is here, way back in March, ( Read more... ) -
As the Good Book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face
The short nutzoid crackfic I was just writing about the nonsensical and hilariously terrible Star Trek: TOS episode "Spock's Brain" just somehow turned into an emotional serious symbolic Spock-McCoy friendship study. What.
On a mostly unrelated note, it just occurred to me, 10 years after first seeing either work, that the main association my brain ( Read more... ) -
An assortment of random things I nabbed out of my bookmarks folder in the past 5 minutes
Old snark is still the best snark:
Original Post: (American southerner ranting at length on tumblr about how American northerners don't understand how to make sweet tea)
Commenter 1: I'm British, and even I think this motherfucker needs to calm the fuck down about their tea.
Commenter 2: As an American, maybe you didn't learn from the first time you ( Read more... ) -
May the Fourth Be With You
To all fellow Star Wars fans -- admit it. Out of all the fandoms in all the franchises in all the world, we got it really, really, REALLY good. Seriously. How many other fandoms have the kind of luck and respect and responsiveness and widespread acceptance, on every possible level from the quality of fic to the lack of stigma from non-fans, that ( Read more... ) -
Just the fandom-related part of all the junk I thought about while insomniacing last night
-If I could only pick one fact that proves to me the stupidity of the human race, it's the fact that sales of clownfish spiked after the release of Finding Nemo. Basic comprehension, kids and parents. You fail-There is nothing quite like reading someone else's interpretation of a modest show or book or movie in a way that sends shivers up your ( Read more... ) -
Advertising Two Fic Challenges!
First:
The Not Ready for Prime Time (Fandoms) (info can be found at npt_admin , not_primetime, and
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RIP Leonard Nimoy
Although I was not a first-generation fan, Star Trek TOS was my first fandom (along with M*A*S*H and Harry Potter), and probably out of all my fandoms, the one that is most consistently near the front burner ( Read more... )