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kimberlite8

Fannish Year in Review 2012

Jan 05, 2013 23:19

Fannish Year In Review 2012

1. Your main fandom of the year: A Song of Ice and Fire

2. Your favorite film this year: This is hard, I don't watch that many movies. Hmm, I did find Cabin in the Woods consistently entertaining throughout its screen time.

3. Your favorite book this year: The Book of Men, Poems by Dorianne Laux. I love my time in ( Read more... )

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ladytp January 6 2013, 08:55:10 UTC

Grrrrr, as I said earlier, fascinating to get some deeper insights over the bare bones of facts ( ... )

kimberlite8 January 7 2013, 22:45:14 UTC

TV: I hear you!
Maybe its a failing but I find this medium less engaging imaginatively, though there's been some very good tv shows. I guess that feeling of falling in love with a fictional world to the point of obsession - that process has to be built with words for me rather than visuals. Some of my favorite books have been butchered through filmaking.

I seriously have to check out Royal Affair from your retrospective, it looks like it just my cup of tea. Have you seen Firelight btw? Its with Stephan Dillane and Sophie Marceau as Victorian era lovers. Its very good imho.

I absolutely adored your description of woman’s lifecycles in the excerpt you highlighted! Thank you! I don't think I'll be writing an crone!Sansa smutfic but I like to think of her as older woman at times. Perhaps like Christine de Pizan - an intellectual, spiritual lady. And I'd like to allow Sansa to be not hot, perhaps a matronly and heavy woman like Gemma Lannister. I don't know, I think the burden of being beautiful your entire life would be so tiresome. ( ... )

ladytp January 10 2013, 02:28:44 UTC

Thanks for the recommendation of 'The Red and the White', for modern AU it was really good! And I will have to check out the Firelight for sure.

I am waiting with bated breath the reboot of the 'Running/Hunting'. It is actually quite amazing how little erotic fan-art there is about SanSan, considering how popular pairing it is. So a great initiative!

Hopefully your laundry forgives you...

westeroswolf January 6 2013, 15:14:04 UTC

Ha ha yes the Internet book club! Technically not a lie, just the truth slightly pimped : )

kimberlite8 January 7 2013, 23:15:00 UTC

Hehe, thank you for providing some excellent coverage. The questioning stops there as eyes glaze over.

girloficenfire January 6 2013, 19:13:27 UTC

oooo I love this idea of rebooting and illustrating Running/Hunting! can't wait to see the drawings that will accompany it.

tee hee, "internet book club"

thank you for the mention!!! honestly though I think I've caught it any time when I've made horrible typos in my fics, I've definitely done read throughs and caught them and been like WOAHHHH OOPS. it's only human to do silly things like that sometimes :)

I too miss the people who have apparently disappeared from fandom, especially from SanSan fandom :( I've been trying my best not to disappear myself...I wouldn't do it because I'm not a fan any more, I just have so much stuff that I need to focus on right now that something (or rather, thingS) has to take a backseat.

kimberlite8 January 8 2013, 07:20:52 UTC

I too miss the people who have apparently disappeared from fandom, especially from SanSan fandom :(
Doing this retrospective highlights how transitory fandom is. Not that I believe everyone who has disappeared has abandoned Sansan, just that their lives are different or perhaps fandom doesn't offer the same jollies it once did. Can't say I'll be Sansan 4 lyf.

I've been trying my best not to disappear myself...
Gives us time to miss you more! Best of luck in all your endeavors. I hope you post on your LJ or something about the convention.

girloficenfire January 8 2013, 18:30:43 UTC

Yeah, I will admit that my feelings about SanSan have definitely changed a lot throughout the past year. At first I was SUCH a Sandor stan, more than a SanSan nut, haha. Then I became alllll about them being an equal couple, a beauty and the beast type tale. And now I've relegated myself to the "they're going to have a slightly sweet but mostly bitter ending" school of thought...which I think is a big part of why I've struggled so much with Lack of Color and haven't written much other fanfic the past 4-5 months.

Yeah I'll definitely post about the convention :) we're still in the planning stages now so it's mostly just a lot of work, much of which is repetitive. sigh

starbird1 January 7 2013, 01:09:33 UTC

I'm honored by the mention - thank you!

And I've used "Internet book club" a time or two myself. :-)

kimberlite8 January 8 2013, 07:23:58 UTC

One of my goals before Feb is to read your Something to Worship. Sevenmas was one of the most feel good fics I've ever read. Thank you for writing it. When a story is as good as yours its more than just words, its a bit of magic.

starbird1 January 9 2013, 13:18:10 UTC

Awesome. I hope you like it. :-) Your compliments are too good!

caroh99 January 7 2013, 03:58:58 UTC

I love your writting and ok you've definately made me want to check out the arya/jaquen story x)
also, the illustrations you showed are very beauitful!

kimberlite8 January 8 2013, 07:32:41 UTC

Thank you caroh99 you are as sweet as you are stunningly beautiful. :) If you read The Red and the White let me know what you think. Warning it can be far left field because its about modern photography and is most a romance.

Thanks for liking the pics! I hope to have more to show by end of Jan.

BTW have you thought of doing your own retrospective? Id like to no more about the mysterious caroh99.

caroh99 January 9 2013, 19:34:54 UTC

Oh my thank you kimberlite8! That's really nice *blushing* oh and guess what I did read The Red & the White in a day- so good! the bit about photography was cool cause I'm about to start a class about that at uni next week-just wish my teacher was as cute as Jaquen! but i really did like the way the author approached Sansa-Sandor. for some reason it really moved me!
Can't wait to see the other pics now :D and aww thank you! Hehe i'm not that mysterious am I? but i'll try and do one over the weekend x)

kimberlite8 January 10 2013, 07:53:12 UTC

When I first saw your avatar I thought you had taken a photo of an actress you admired.

I'm glad you liked the Red and the White. The Sansan romance was my favorite part too (granted, I'm biased). It was great and I read it in a day too. I think because the outsider perspective makes you pity them. And Sansa is so much more human (and thus more real to me) because Arya sees her faults, her vanity, her lack of loyalty to Arya as they were growing up. Like you said, the approach was really moving, their love was so poignant!

but i'll try and do one over the weekend
I hope you do. I'd love to see your photos too if you're inclined to show them.

just wish my teacher was as cute as Jaquen
LOL!

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