Big ole hug

[lettered]

*shakes fandom hard*

Don't you ever leave me, you fool, don't ever leave me!

*hugs fandom hard*

You. Hey you! Yes you, walkin' on by, thinking 'bout leaving all this behind. Why aren't you writing brow ridge fic?

*shakes fandom again, harder this time, jouncey trampoline grip I've got*

I love the Angel theme song. I love it like whoa. I heard it last night and I cried.

I don't cry much.

Comments

[my_daroga]

You make me wish I was *in* the fandom... *sniffle*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you are fannish, which makes me happy.

[my_daroga]

I do! I am! (I talk like a parrot!)

Buffy fandom has always seemed unassailably huge to me. Too many characters, too many fans, too much! I can lurk and read but production seems out of my league.

Which is why I slave away in Phantomy obscurity, where at least I can see the edges.

[rahirah]

But you don't have to take on BtVS fandom en masse! Start small, focusing on one character or pairing, post stuff to some of the major comms/lists whatever devoted to that character or pairing. People are STARVED for decent new writers in this fandom, and they will clutch you to their collective bosom and make meepy noises. Then you can branch out and become a BNF and people on that fist comm will sob in their beer remembering the days when you wrote Xander/Larry fic JUST FOR THEM.

Besides, compared to something like HP fandom, we're tiny. Tiny, cosy and accessible. You want to jump right in. You feel completely at ease...(uses hypnotic eye beams)

[my_daroga]

That's quite the pep talk. I'm flattered and somewhat flushed. I've been hoping for years that some "untold" story would pop into my brain and say "hey, write me! I'm about your favorite folks from Sunnydale!" But it hasn't.

But one of the biggest problems in my life is my propensity to try to figure out the big picture before I do anything, leading to vast acres of trepidation into which I dare not venture.

You have started me on the path of not thinking that way about BtVS.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You have started me on the path of not thinking that way about BtVS.

Dude, three cheers for rahirah!

I was telling someone below, I've been wanting to start a comm, like a kinda newbie/introduction comm for Buffyverse, where new people can introduce themselves, post things they're afriad to post in other comms, and most importantly, discuss things like the fandom itself, it's issues, how to get noticed, how to get in, etc etc.

I really identify with what you're saying about the "big picture" . . . I don't just plunge into ANYTHING when it comes to interacting with people. I scope out for a LONG time before I join in ... I didn't do that with Buffyverse so much as with other fandoms, because I finally got fed up. I'd been in fandom for years, and felt like I didn't KNOW anybody, and I saw from the outside all these interesting discussions, beta relationships, forums for interaction, but I never felt like I could join in and the few times I did I felt ignored, and I'm SUCH an attention whore that this really affronted me. I think I got lucky with Jossverse because I met some people who really in the thick of it right off the bat, and they were all incredibly kind to me, but...five years of fandom, and that never happened before.

I don't know, I just don't want other people to feel like I've felt before, wanting to join in and feeling all weirdly left out, and feeling ridiculous for feeling left out because it would be easy to come in and make noise if I really wanted to.

So anyway, I do hope you get your bunny one day for Buffyverse. I love your Phantom fics though so you're not allowed to leave that fandom either or I will hunt you DOWN and stuff your stomach full of FLESH EATING RABBITS.

[my_daroga]

God, fandom is such crack! I won't leave Phantom; my "kissing the frog" gets recc'd still, so I feel I could get into a big fish/little pond situation, which is really attractive, y'know? But just so I know, are these rabbits going down my throat or is it a surgical procedure? Laproscopic, so to speak.

Smack me NOW.

It's not so much that I feel intimidated by Buffy fans or comms themselves--I'm brazen enough to post whatever I feel like whether invited or not--but the *writing* seems difficult. It can't be; much sillier people than I write all the time. But in my head it's like "OMG there's like 100,000 characters to think about and all this canon and argh!!" I'm so familiar with the Phantom stuff that if I even have to check a source I know where to look.

Everyone's so nice. =)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

So that's why you won't write me Xander/Larry, you nasty BNF! FLAME! FLAME!

:o)

[rahirah]

ZOMG no one who is anyone writes Xander/Larry any longer! I AM ALL ABOUT LARRY/GIANTSNAKEWILKINS DO NOT FETTER MY FRAGILE MUSE!