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Update & Fandom Meta
Oct. 13th, 2012 08:48 amI think I broke my brain trying to finish some fic that really didn't want to be finished when I should have just started a new one. That plus being busy at work and flipping from fandom obsession to fandom obsession means I haven't actually written much of anything for about a month or two. Hopefully, that'll change soon and I'll be good by the time NaNoWriMo comes around and maybe I'll actually finished it this year.
Meanwhile, here are some articles I read recently that other people might enjoy:
How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman
Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
Who Gets to be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be by John Scalzi
Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think — and my experience of geekdom bears on this thinking — that the true sign of a geek is a delight in sharing a thing. It’s the major difference between a geek and a hipster, you know: When a hipster sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “Oh, crap, now the wrong people like the thing I love.” When a geek sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “ZOMG YOU LOVE WHAT I LOVE COME WITH ME AND LET US LOVE IT TOGETHER.”
Meanwhile, here are some articles I read recently that other people might enjoy:
How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman
Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
Who Gets to be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be by John Scalzi
Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think — and my experience of geekdom bears on this thinking — that the true sign of a geek is a delight in sharing a thing. It’s the major difference between a geek and a hipster, you know: When a hipster sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “Oh, crap, now the wrong people like the thing I love.” When a geek sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “ZOMG YOU LOVE WHAT I LOVE COME WITH ME AND LET US LOVE IT TOGETHER.”
