dw/lj friending meme!

[anghraine]

I found this via sqbr: being the change I want to see in my f-list, for those of us who are missing conversation on the text-based journaling sites. Mine:

1. name: anghraine at dreamwidth/Tumblr, elizabeth_hoot at lj (DW and LJ are crossposted)
2. age(ish): 26
3. primary fandoms: Avatar (mostly LOK), Austen (mostly P&P), Star Wars (don't like the prequels, but try not to be obnoxious about it)
4. other stuff you're into, but maybe don't blog about (unless you find more people who'd want to hear about it): Middle-earth (first fandom, but I haven't blogged about it in years), Narnia, Harry Potter, Doctor Who (Four!), Young Wizards, the Secret Garden, Eddings, She-Ra, Tamora Pierce, the Hollow Crown, Psych, Good Omens. Lots of stuff I never found fannish friends for and wasn't fascinated by enough to carry on all by myself. I also like multifandom discussions and fandom studies and such.
5. non-fannish interests?: Eighteenth-century literature and history, lit-crit generally, psychology (my minor), gender/sexuality, politics (American, Democrat).
6. my journal reads like...: about equal parts memes and fic (mostly one-shots and WIPs), with the occasional long-winded meta or rant.
7. f-list turnoffs: fandom gatekeeping. Anything about what constitutes true fans or what contingent is ruining fandom or the canon, and mostly condemning contingents of the fanbase rather than disagreeing with their opinions. A lot of anti-woobie rants have annoyed me lately.

Comments

[tree]

IDK i think to be a true fan you have to at least be able to SPELL THE CHARACTER'S NAMES CORRECTLY. if that means i'm a gatekeeper then i shall embrace my gatekeepingness. (now i'm thinking of sigourney weaver in ghostbusters.)

[anghraine]

Heeeh. I judge them (and for plenty of other things, too!), but I'm not going to say they shouldn't be in the fandom or that they're ruining the purity of Austen's vision or whatnot. I do think some people are clearly fans of this adaptation or that rather than the books, too, but the fandom has never really divided into books vs. adaptation fandom the way, say, that a lot of LOTR fandom did, so - I think they have their place in it. It's just not my place. Though I rather wish it had divided that way, wankstorms and all, so I could just avoid the parts I find personally annoying. I suspect the 1995 version was too universally beloved for that, though (and, iirc, the basis of the modern fandom in the first place).