Fandom Meme

[jaybee65]

So! That fandom meme that's been going around: I wound up leaving comments in 3 people's journals, not really thinking that I would get tagged by all of them. (Oops!) While I did my answers in comments on the original person's post the first two times, I think maybe I should just go ahead and answer here! But this means I'm answering for 6

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[sk56]

It was a pretty wanky fandom in many respects, especially for its size.

No kidding. This was my first exposure to fan life as well, and it's certainly colored my expectations of this world!

[jaybee65]

To be perfectly honest, I've been a bit disappointed in other fandoms. LFN certainly produced a lot of entertainment per capita, didn't it?

[swatkat24]

Yes. Not being a part of the House/Wilson brigade has meant I've missed most of the significant H/W wank that goes on behind closed doors - it makes my fannish life a lot simpler, but then I miss out on the wank. And none of my other fandoms manage to produce such crazy on a regular basis. :(

[jaybee65]

has meant I've missed most of the significant H/W wank that goes on behind closed doors

Oh, that's a good point! There's a lot of crazeh in House fandom, actually, but because I'm sort of drifting aimlessly through that fandom, I miss a lot of it. House fandom may be just on the side of too big for me: I have trouble keeping up with it all, and so I tend to react by throwing up my hands and not even trying sometimes. It makes me a little more passive and laissez faire than I am in smaller fandoms.

[madamedarque]

I wish I'd been around for the crazy, wanky, flamewar-infested part of LFN fandom. It sounds awesome. LOL.

[catsma]

It was...LOL..we had people literally frothing at the mouth, they hated each other so badly.

And the stalkers...oh boy..did we ever have a few of those, some seriously scary.

[jaybee65]

Catsma knows all the good dirt: she went to all (most of?) the cons when things were the craziest with all the obsessed Roy Dupuis worshipers and would-be stalkers. I missed all that, and only witnessed the post-2001 online stuff (although there were some doozies even there!).

On the fanfic-writing side of the fandom, the biggest kerfuffle probably involved a notoriously crazy (and persistent! she's gone on for years!) plagiarist. But there were also big arguments about slash (most people in the fandom were pretty intolerant of it); battles between "DOMs" and "DONs" (Defenders of Michael and Defenders of Nikita, respectively); the inevitable arguments over concrit and badfic sporking; HRs versus TRs (*coughguiltylookcough*); and then just completely off-the-wall arguments that I can only chalk up to the fandom having possibly more than its share of wacky personalities. We really should write up a "top ten crazy things that happened in LFN fandom" summary for you!

[delle]

we told one of Shanola's friends a few 'crazy' stories - she spent the rest of the weekend shaking her head at us!! it's truly amazing how many originally-sane people ended up being batshit in LFN.

[delle]

Interesting how many of us got into LFN thru our guys, isn't it?

Also, I LOVED the Adrian arc. Some of the best of the show - thank you for reminding me of that arc! LOVED LOVED LOVED that - loved the Michael/Nikita dynamic, that she blindsided him, the Nikita/Operations interaction.... oh, just the entire arc. It was *amazing*, everyone's best work.

[jaybee65]

And Nikita faced a genuinely difficult moral dilemma (and, as a corollary, wielded, at least briefly, some real power) -- and we got to *watch* her struggle with that responsibility and make her (imperfect) choice, instead of TPTB "surprising" us with it years after the fact. (Yes, I'm still bitter about the S4 finale, why do you ask? LOL.)

As for the guy factor...mine will pretty much watch anything that involves hot-looking women beating people up. ;-) He loooooved LFN and watched it religiously, although he's not a join-a-fandom-type person.

[swatkat24]

And the end, of course - Nikita standing there, considering. Because has she done the right thing? And if she has not, then what happens to her claim that she is not one of them, she's better than them?

Cut to S3 and MMWK. Talk about an anti-climax. *headdesk*

[jaybee65]

YES, THIS.