fandom is everywhere

I think J. is about two steps away from joining fandom. Maybe one and a half. He's talking about missing daydreaming and writing and then starts to talk about The Village and his questions about it, and some psychological examinations about some of their decisions and dude, he is so writing fanfic in this conversation, just without putting it into prose form.

Which is cool to watch.

I saw two big scary spiders today and now I can't go to bed for fear of them. Well, of their evil minions because I killed them both and now their little spider mafia will hunt me down and kill me by crawling on me and giving me the biggest heart attack in the world.

So yeah. Am wide awake though I am exhausted. Was up way too late last night writing with thestalkycop, got up way too early for work (one of the few Saturdays I work, since I don't usually, I just covered for one of the guys so he could go out on opening day of rifle deer hunting), and am now up way too late when I already don't feel well.

But the spiders, man.

J. is coming to visit this next weekend, for Thanksgiving. I will maybe encourage more of the fandom-movement then. Well, I will, but I will be subtle, because though he's always been supportive of my involvement, I don't think he's ever thought about it for himself. However, he absolutely fell head over heels for Angel the Series, enjoyed Serenity when I took him to the pre-screening in St. Louis even though he hadn't seen the show, and has since started to to watch Firefly itself. Plus he loved snarky Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, at least until the later seasons. And those are just my fandoms he's interested in (unfortunately, I've not yet turned him into a fan of Vin Diesel movies, though he watches them with me, and he dressed as Hagrid once for the book five release party, when I worked at a bookstore, but he's not too fond of Harry Potter, and he actually didn't like Mean Girls, which still makes my mind boggle), he has plenty of things he likes on his own.

I'm not going to push, I just think he'd have fun. Heh.

In March I am going to see Sarah and The Mighty Boosh. What kind of combination is that? A great and wonderful and terrific combination, that's what!

I have now written almost 6,000 words on this fanfic that isn't. I wish I could show it to people, it's terribly cute and makes me giggle in some places, but I think you'd have to know the source material.

I have so many comments to answer, but they will wait until tomorrow, for I will brave the nighttime attack of the spiders and sleep now.

fictional women in fandom

I am trying to gather my thoughts on some very interesting discussions (and kphoebe, I think you'd have some things to say about these, too), but I'm so far into my writing I can't shake the plots from my head. Instead I'll collect the links here and try to come back to them later.

These are just in the order I found them, not necessarily the order they were written or any other order, for that matter.

twinkledru expands on her thoughts on femslash and whether women are underrepresented in western media (which was actually sparked off by her shorter post why is femslash the redheaded stepchild of fandom?). She makes a lot of good points, and then in response to both posts, there are dozens of thoughtful and thought-provoking comments.

Edited to Add: twinkledru has a follow-up post.

inlovewithnight talks about her favorite female characters and if her favorites aren't the women who carry the physically strong label, does that mean she doesn't like strong women?

fox1013 asks what makes a female character interesting, and what people think some female characters are missing which makes them less likeable.

And there it is, the conversations which are starting to distract me from my writing, but the writing has to come first.

Why does the thoughtful mood fox look so upset? Thinking is good.