image-intensive clint/natasha post ahead
May. 22nd, 2012 12:34 pm
Tumblr is totally owning me right now because All of the Awesome Avengers Things Are There (so many pretty pictures). ( I love, love, LOOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS. Spoilery for The Avengers. )
Just over a week ago -- I can't believe it's only been that long -- I had lunch with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adelagia, and as often happens, we talked about fandom, specifically and in general. We talked about how we enjoy many TV shows and books and movies, but we've only written fanfic for a very small fraction of those, that it takes something extra to get us to actually write for a fandom. (We couldn't articulate what that "extra" is, though.) Two days later, I saw The Avengers.
It has now taken over my brain. It's ironic, really, that I was JUST talking to T. about fandom and what it takes to get into it in a certain way, and how rare it is, and then to get "infected" two days later is just... funny. I mean, it is. This is the fastest I've ever gotten into a fandom, both reading and especially, writing. Maybe it makes a difference that it's a movie, so there's not a ton of canon to catch up on. Well, of course it is based on comic book canon, which I have familiarized myself with on a basic level, but really 99% of the fandom currently is centered around movie canon (and headcanon derived from what we extrapolate from the movie), which is an important distinction to make because the comic canon is so vast and there are so many variations, and basically fans of BlackHawk movie canon generally pretend that Mockingbird and stuff like that doesn't exist. >.> Hawkeye and Black Widow have their comic book histories up until it collides with their movie history, and then the future after the movie is treated as 'unwritten.' Anyway, the three fandoms I've written for previously, REALLY wrote for, not just a drabble or two, had tons of canon because they were based on TV shows (X-Files and Merlin) and a long book series (Harry Potter). And I barely count Merlin because after 3 stories I was kind of done with it and never read all that many stories either.
The thing with Clint/Natasha is that the quality of the fic is... amazing. It is at X-Files levels. It's wonderful and intimidating at the same time. I'm frequently amazed by some of the things I read, which makes me want to throw myself on the ground and have a little tantrum because I feel like I can't ever match that kind of quality, and how much I wish I'd written that particular passage/turn of phrase. Then I take a deep breath and get over it, and count myself lucky to be part of a fandom that has a high bar, to challenge my own writing and at the same time get to read some pretty fantastic stories.
I don't know what did it, what does it, why this universe, why these characters. I've been really, really into stuff before. BtVS was my fandom after XF, but I didn't read that much fic, and other than one little drabble I never wrote anything for it, and I loved that universe, I really did. And that can be said for plenty of other TV shows/movies/books as well. Maybe it's just that age-old thing where I'm not given what I want in canon, so I have to get it from fandom. It could be as simple as that... But that's true for so many of them! So I don't know. That's really the answer. I don't have a clue.
Anyway, all I want to do right now is spend time with Clint and Natasha. They're in my head 24/7. I resent everything I have to do that is not writing a story involving them. This weekend it was K.'s birthday and she also wanted me to come over to play board games, so I went over there both Saturday and Sunday, but mentally for me it was like this HUGE CHORE. >< "But Clint and Natasha need me" didn't seem like a very good excuse. It's how I felt, though I couldn't expect her to understand it. In some ways, though, it's exhilarating to be this into a fandom again, in a way that I haven't been in a long time and kind of doubted I ever would be again. It's fun. I actually want to write, even though I'm so rusty at putting together an actual story with a beginning/middle/end that mostly I feel like I'm just writing drivel, but at least I'm doing it. The better stuff will come in time.
Plus I get to look at super pretty graphics like these: ( Because Clint and Natasha NEED ME, or rather, I need them, all of these are just from one Tumblr. But they are of the awesome. More varied recs later. )
Oh and I've now seen The Avengers 2.75 times. :)) There is a reason it has made $1.2 billion already. >.> And I can't wait to see it again!
Just over a week ago -- I can't believe it's only been that long -- I had lunch with
adelagia, and as often happens, we talked about fandom, specifically and in general. We talked about how we enjoy many TV shows and books and movies, but we've only written fanfic for a very small fraction of those, that it takes something extra to get us to actually write for a fandom. (We couldn't articulate what that "extra" is, though.) Two days later, I saw The Avengers.It has now taken over my brain. It's ironic, really, that I was JUST talking to T. about fandom and what it takes to get into it in a certain way, and how rare it is, and then to get "infected" two days later is just... funny. I mean, it is. This is the fastest I've ever gotten into a fandom, both reading and especially, writing. Maybe it makes a difference that it's a movie, so there's not a ton of canon to catch up on. Well, of course it is based on comic book canon, which I have familiarized myself with on a basic level, but really 99% of the fandom currently is centered around movie canon (and headcanon derived from what we extrapolate from the movie), which is an important distinction to make because the comic canon is so vast and there are so many variations, and basically fans of BlackHawk movie canon generally pretend that Mockingbird and stuff like that doesn't exist. >.> Hawkeye and Black Widow have their comic book histories up until it collides with their movie history, and then the future after the movie is treated as 'unwritten.' Anyway, the three fandoms I've written for previously, REALLY wrote for, not just a drabble or two, had tons of canon because they were based on TV shows (X-Files and Merlin) and a long book series (Harry Potter). And I barely count Merlin because after 3 stories I was kind of done with it and never read all that many stories either.
The thing with Clint/Natasha is that the quality of the fic is... amazing. It is at X-Files levels. It's wonderful and intimidating at the same time. I'm frequently amazed by some of the things I read, which makes me want to throw myself on the ground and have a little tantrum because I feel like I can't ever match that kind of quality, and how much I wish I'd written that particular passage/turn of phrase. Then I take a deep breath and get over it, and count myself lucky to be part of a fandom that has a high bar, to challenge my own writing and at the same time get to read some pretty fantastic stories.
I don't know what did it, what does it, why this universe, why these characters. I've been really, really into stuff before. BtVS was my fandom after XF, but I didn't read that much fic, and other than one little drabble I never wrote anything for it, and I loved that universe, I really did. And that can be said for plenty of other TV shows/movies/books as well. Maybe it's just that age-old thing where I'm not given what I want in canon, so I have to get it from fandom. It could be as simple as that... But that's true for so many of them! So I don't know. That's really the answer. I don't have a clue.
Anyway, all I want to do right now is spend time with Clint and Natasha. They're in my head 24/7. I resent everything I have to do that is not writing a story involving them. This weekend it was K.'s birthday and she also wanted me to come over to play board games, so I went over there both Saturday and Sunday, but mentally for me it was like this HUGE CHORE. >< "But Clint and Natasha need me" didn't seem like a very good excuse. It's how I felt, though I couldn't expect her to understand it. In some ways, though, it's exhilarating to be this into a fandom again, in a way that I haven't been in a long time and kind of doubted I ever would be again. It's fun. I actually want to write, even though I'm so rusty at putting together an actual story with a beginning/middle/end that mostly I feel like I'm just writing drivel, but at least I'm doing it. The better stuff will come in time.
Plus I get to look at super pretty graphics like these: ( Because Clint and Natasha NEED ME, or rather, I need them, all of these are just from one Tumblr. But they are of the awesome. More varied recs later. )
Oh and I've now seen The Avengers 2.75 times. :)) There is a reason it has made $1.2 billion already. >.> And I can't wait to see it again!
