resistance is futile!
Dec. 5th, 2009 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthfrom kate
Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile." I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
1. What is your favorite dance style to see on SYTYCD?
If I absolutely have to pick a style, I'd say broadway, with jive a close second. SYTYCD is very choreographer-dependent for me. I wouldn't say that I love either contemporary or hiphop across the board, but my favorite choreographers are probably in there.
2. Have you always been poly-fannish?
I like to read (well, duh) and I read fast. I was one of those kids who'd do the Scholastic book orders in school and read, like, all of them the day the books came in, and grew up into a teenager who'd sit down to read and finish a novel before bed. I'm sure there are some fandoms (like SPN and Star Trek now) that could keep me busy if I read everything, but if I only read in one or two fandoms, which are usually each dominated by one or two pairings, it doesn't take long for similarity-of-plot (or similarity-of-porn) fatigue to set in. Also, I don't so much get into the meta and the producers' blogs and whatnot that's part of being really *in* a fandom. That would suck up more time, for sure.
I started reading more fanfic than published original fic during the SG:1/SGA overlap, which was fabulous, because there were so many potential plots and pairings there, not to mention great authors. So, now, I mostly graze.
3. What is your favorite dessert? (sorry, I'm hungry!)
(side note! What popped into my head when I read that was "I could no sooner choose a favorite star in the heavens" from Ever After, which was about books, but whatev. now I want to watch that.)
Favorite dessert that I will never make, but I'll order in a restaurant: Crème brûlée (accents and whatnot compliments of c&p from wikipedia!) or crème caramel, or flan, or anything custardy.
Favorite dessert that I will actually make: apple crisp
Favorite dessert I'm most likely to have in my kitchen: fresh berries and cream, in summer. Chocolate ice cream (mostly After Dark Chocolate at the moment)
4. AUs - are they only good in some fandoms? Because I'm trying to think of a way to prompt you with a Die Hard 4 AU, and I can't come up with anything that isn't absolutely cracktastic.
I'm not active in a lot of small fandoms, but I'm wondering if there needs to be a critical mass of fen before the AUs kick down the door. Or, maybe the fandoms stay small because the characters are defined in a way that limits people's imaginations for other situations to put them in? I also think that it's a lot easier to make AUs out of sci-fi/fantasy/magical canons by putting them in the real world that the other way around for the Average Writer.
I mean, most AU stories are set in present-day offices and high schools or colleges, right?. I think there are some fandoms where you really can't shoehorn the characters into that, but there's still hope for a more creative placement.
John McClane could be a cop. Or a fireman. Or a bodyguard. Or a cop in space! I tried to put him in the military once, though, and I couldn't even get started. His temperament does bear a strong resemblance to my high school Earth Science teacher. I just have a hard time imagining what McClane would excel at other than putting bad guys away, and I have a hard time imagining a young McClane setting himself up in a career that he wasn't excited about.
5. Cake or death?
Cake! Quick before they run out!
kateLeave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile." I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
1. What is your favorite dance style to see on SYTYCD?
If I absolutely have to pick a style, I'd say broadway, with jive a close second. SYTYCD is very choreographer-dependent for me. I wouldn't say that I love either contemporary or hiphop across the board, but my favorite choreographers are probably in there.
2. Have you always been poly-fannish?
I like to read (well, duh) and I read fast. I was one of those kids who'd do the Scholastic book orders in school and read, like, all of them the day the books came in, and grew up into a teenager who'd sit down to read and finish a novel before bed. I'm sure there are some fandoms (like SPN and Star Trek now) that could keep me busy if I read everything, but if I only read in one or two fandoms, which are usually each dominated by one or two pairings, it doesn't take long for similarity-of-plot (or similarity-of-porn) fatigue to set in. Also, I don't so much get into the meta and the producers' blogs and whatnot that's part of being really *in* a fandom. That would suck up more time, for sure.
I started reading more fanfic than published original fic during the SG:1/SGA overlap, which was fabulous, because there were so many potential plots and pairings there, not to mention great authors. So, now, I mostly graze.
3. What is your favorite dessert? (sorry, I'm hungry!)
(side note! What popped into my head when I read that was "I could no sooner choose a favorite star in the heavens" from Ever After, which was about books, but whatev. now I want to watch that.)
Favorite dessert that I will never make, but I'll order in a restaurant: Crème brûlée (accents and whatnot compliments of c&p from wikipedia!) or crème caramel, or flan, or anything custardy.
Favorite dessert that I will actually make: apple crisp
Favorite dessert I'm most likely to have in my kitchen: fresh berries and cream, in summer. Chocolate ice cream (mostly After Dark Chocolate at the moment)
4. AUs - are they only good in some fandoms? Because I'm trying to think of a way to prompt you with a Die Hard 4 AU, and I can't come up with anything that isn't absolutely cracktastic.
I'm not active in a lot of small fandoms, but I'm wondering if there needs to be a critical mass of fen before the AUs kick down the door. Or, maybe the fandoms stay small because the characters are defined in a way that limits people's imaginations for other situations to put them in? I also think that it's a lot easier to make AUs out of sci-fi/fantasy/magical canons by putting them in the real world that the other way around for the Average Writer.
I mean, most AU stories are set in present-day offices and high schools or colleges, right?. I think there are some fandoms where you really can't shoehorn the characters into that, but there's still hope for a more creative placement.
John McClane could be a cop. Or a fireman. Or a bodyguard. Or a cop in space! I tried to put him in the military once, though, and I couldn't even get started. His temperament does bear a strong resemblance to my high school Earth Science teacher. I just have a hard time imagining what McClane would excel at other than putting bad guys away, and I have a hard time imagining a young McClane setting himself up in a career that he wasn't excited about.
5. Cake or death?
Cake! Quick before they run out!
