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[mllelaurel]

You know what's making me sad? I seem to have lost the knack for fandom. There are series I find brilliant but have no urge to be fannish about - Scrapped Princess comes to mind - and it may well be that the reason I don't feel fannish is that I find the canon complete and complex, in a way fandom neither can nor needs to replicate. And then, there are the series I do feel fannish about. Death Note. XxxHolic. Saiyuki, a bit. But since I've grown too picky to look through the slush pile, as it were, I wind up at a loss as to where to proceed once I've read everything by authors I already trust from other fandoms. (And with some of these, Death Note in particular, I really don't want to look blind. From what I know of the fandom, it's capable of some serious shite.) There's always recs lists, but that goes back to the same principle. I must find a recs site I trust and then hope my tastes match the reccer's.

And you know, I miss that bright, near-obsessive feeling of having a new fandom, or even an old one that's yet to let me down. I miss the love and the eager anticipation.

Also, I'm bored.

Bah. I sound like an old lady who misses her youth. Back in my days, we only had mailing lists for our fic, and we liked it. Whippersnappers.

Comments

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

I miss that bright, near-obsessive feeling of having a new fandom, or even an old one that's yet to let me down. I miss the love and the eager anticipation.

Haha, I totally know what you mean. And being fannish is nice, and sharing it with close friends is shiny, but sometimes you just want the larger writing and/or squeeing community. ("Slush pile" is such an apt term, too.)

If you have any desire whatsoever to look, speaky_bean writes pretty good Death Note fic.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Much sympathy. I'm having much of the same experience lately. I want to write fanfic, but I'm even having problems with my old fandoms.

I suspect that Scrapped Princess is hard to try to fangirl, because, as you say, it's very neatly wrapped up in a package, and there aren't many plot holes or dangling plot threads that fans can latch onto. Everything is explained, and there isn't much chemistry between characters to play with. It's an excellent story, though.

I've written one Saiyuki fic, and it's a riff off a chapter from the source text, Journey to the West. scribblemoose writes some quite decent Saiyuki fic, and I suspect that some of her friends do too (she certainly points to a lot of quite decent fanart).

Cannot like Death Note. We got 3 discs into it, and just stopped watching. I skimmed some of the manga and some sites online to get the gist of the rest of the plot. *shrug*

Terrifyingly, I keep spinning ideas for Harry Potter fics in my head, because there's so much about the last couple of books that could be much better if done differently. I think I just have to write my own books and do it better. ;)

[triedandwired.livejournal.com]

I feel you. I still adoooooore HP with all my heart, but have weened off of the fandom over time, mostly not because I got bored, but because I got busy with other things and left that whole world and have since then only reentered tangentially. Maybe it's time for you to freshen your fandom up with a new medium or try new ways of looking at pairings?