Why isn't my fandom full of rainbows and kittens and lollipops?

[sarren]

Um, I'm not very good at being in The Dark Knight fandom. All I want to do is read nice little gen Commissioner Gordon fics but THOSE DAMN SLASHERS GET EVERYWHERE.

Things I have learned about TDK fandom.

1. Batman/Joker is THE pairing of choice, apparently, though I have had to scroll very fast past something that is apparently a 'kinkfic' involving Gordon/Harvey and I can't say anything more if you haven't seen the movie but. ew.

2. WIPs drown everything else out.

3. Not really surprisingly, lots of non-con, sexual violence, other violence.

4. Apparently it's acceptable to header your fic with: I finished this in four hours. Four hours! I'm more used to writing stories in four months. What just happened? How did I do that? I should probably re-read this before posting it. Y'kno what- I don't care. Just read. Suffer through my typos.

Um, no. Bye.


And now I just read a short fic because it had Gordon in it and was well written and I kept hoping he'd get rescued, but no, the Joker carved him up into little pieces and now I have to go curl up in a ball somewhere and whimper for a while.

Comments

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

err because you're reading TDK?

I just watched the first three episodes of Jeremiah!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

your words are English and appear to go together.

yeah, I have no idea what you said. what do you mean by 'err'? I don't know Jeremiah does it have crazy knife wielding maniacs having knifeplay sex with the hero?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I just meant to say you were expecting kittens? That weren't being used a molotov cockails?

Jeremiah is post apocalypse build a better world amongst dog eat dog and plague!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

YES, YES I WAS EXPECTING KITTENS AND HOPE AND REBUILDING AND NOT MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER BEING CUT INTO PIECES.

Is it good? It hasn't really crossed my radar. I'm willing to be pimped to. *g*

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You have to write the happy fic then ;-)

It's average - it does have some good moments and I do love me a good apocalypse!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Oh, I PLAN to.


Who doesn't love a good apocalypse. Remember this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qckMHp7wU&feature=related) I still have it on video somewhere. Some pretty big names in that one.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Man, that was kind of special - you have it on video?

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can I show it to you? CAN I?

I loved that when it came out in 1989. I watched it a lot. I was young.

Did you notice Vince D'Onofrio and Delroy Lindo?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You sure can, it looks remarkably bad and I'd love to see it!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Yays!!!

[special-trille.livejournal.com]

You know what you could read that is both gen and doesn't have Gordon cut up into little pieces? The comics. Go on...you know you want to...*nudges you*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

You know, I actually did about 15 years ago! Which is how know all about the Robins. By which of course I mean I vaguely remember bits.

Have you got the comics to lend me?

[klia.livejournal.com]

Um, no. Bye.

Thank you for this. If a writer can't be arsed to have her stories edited, let alone proofread/spellcheck them herself, then I sure as hell can't be arsed to read them.

OMG I KNOW.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I have to be pretty desperate to click on an unbeta'd fic at all. *g* But to not even reread, if she doesn't care about her fic, why should I?

Re: OMG I KNOW.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly. And yet? That's the prevalent attitude I've been seeing around LJ lately -- that every story is a valid form of art, and every writer an artist, no matter how bad their writing, and I'm sorry I just don't agree with that. Remember the scene in The Incredibles where Helen tells Dash to hide his abilities, saying "Everyone is special," and Dash mutters, “Which is another way of saying no one is special.” That's how this strikes me. There *is* such a thing as talent, and some people don't have it as far as writing goes.

Re: OMG I KNOW.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Good point!

I haven't really come across that as much as people who are still in, or never got past, the "precious snowflake" stage of learning to write.

Re: OMG I KNOW.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself *extremely* lucky, then! Srsly.

Re: OMG I KNOW.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Bad Things happen when I venture out of my tiny corner of fandom.

Re: OMG I KNOW.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Same here!