We All Shine On

[itsallovernow]

Thanks to everyone who dropped by to share their fannish top three. These have made me smile for most of the day. I like seeing just how good we can be to each other, how much joy we take in each other and in the media of our choice, how much words - whether from friends or peers or artists or characters - can do for us, can take us and shape us and how grateful I am that those things are out there to hold onto.

The whole being sad thing all the time is still lingering (now coupled with the fabulous treat of randomly crying at work), but it's an amazing thing to be able to look at joy, at kindness and hesitance and embarrasment and glee and laughter in other people and follow that path.

Feel free to keep adding to the list, and I encourage everyone to post the responses at their own LJs. When I've seen this done, it seem to provoke a really nice response.

Fannish reciprocity in the form of spouting off:
And since I don't even know if I can limit my fandom moments to three, I invite you to either suggest a show, or a pairing, or a book, or a song, or a fannish event, or fans in general and I will tell you either a scene or a line or a moment that I love and hold close. If I don't know the source, I will happily either make something up or tell you my favorite fannish osmosis moment about it.

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Speaking of fannish osmosis, despite not being overly impressed by any of the Supernatural episodes that I've seen, I finally realized that if this show is at all about road trips and classic rock and family, it might be just what I need right now because road trip movies are so my guilty pleasure and I want to write about road trips and crappy motels. I still wish there were women actively in this because I'd like to see women in road trip movies, but I may have to reverse my don't care policy on this show long enough to give it another try.

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And, after another two weeks of not being able to write, I had another moment of inspiration with the NIP, envisioning a scene unfolding, having that taste of the setting and the words. This story is such an adventure to me because I'm following tendrils and trails, filling in gaps, filling in worlds and moments and some of this is wrapped up in the texture of words and some of it is all about the imagery I get, these people wholly formed, sitting in sunlight and starry darkness.

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3 fannish moments

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

1. Meeting denyeverything1. It all started because Shari's XF site encouraged folks to send feedback and I figured what the hell. So my first feedback note went to DE1, and our on-line correspondence survived my sending long snippets from Siegfried Sassoon to her.

2. Traveling to Middle of Nowhere Missouri to meet up with a bunch of scullyficcers. Now I can check off the box that says "has traveled long distances to meet with people I met over the Internet." Better, it was a big room filled with enthusiastic women. What's not to love?

3. My sister revealing that she wrote SG-1 fic under a pseudonym. It's actually horrible stuff (I though cofax was going to choke trying to be tactful about what she thought of it) but it is so *her* and so her sense of humor that I can't help but want to cuddle it.


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Your fannish prompt: A CJ, Toby or CJ/Toby moment.

Re: 3 fannish moments

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Oh god! I'm not sure I can choose just one, so I'll do one of each:

1. CJ and the turkeys in "Shibboleth" because I KNEW she was going to get them pardoned but it was so CJ, still bright and elegant and dealing with the turkeys and calling them by name and surviving asking Bartlett to pardon them with a kind of grace I will never have.

2. Toby talking to the guy in the bar about a college education for his daughter, because as much as I love grumpy Toby, idealist Toby breaks my heart.

3. CJ/Toby - Six months ago, this could have been any number of scenes, but I love the interaction between them in the penultimate ep so very much with Toby making a chicken, and CJ finally telling him how angry, how hurt she was, and how much both of them had grown up and grown better.

And hee - it will never, ever not be funny that your sister was writing SG-1 fic without your knowledge. NEVER!

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

Ooh, fannish prompt, because I am feeling very nostalgic, and using hap's format: A Scully, Mulder, or Scully/Mulder moment.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I am a terrible terrible fan and have finally made room in my brain where XF titles used to live.

However.

Scully: When she's bellowing at the doctors in the one where Mulder's been outside and is all popsicled and they're trying to save him and she's just this tiny, frantic woman who is absolutely in charge. I love that for the same reason I love the moment in the movie when she yells at the people in the building to get the hell out.

Mulder: The look on his face when Scully says, "Are you sure it wasn't a girl scream?" Because I loved it when he was in full believer mode and still not taking himself too seriously.

Scully/Mulder: I love the last scene in Never AGain because it hurts so badly and defines better than any speech every did the problems between them. And I equally love the scene in Field Trip when he says "I don't wanna wrestle," and is lying on her lap because it's just warm and funny and sweet and exasperating.

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

I confess, I have some trouble remembering titles myself, these days. Me! Don't tell anyone.

Oh, you are so my sort of fan. These are all favorites of mine too. Scully being large and in charge and Mulder being self-deprecating are *always* good.

But oh, that scene in Never Again. I've probably written thousands of words over the year trying to pin down what happened in just a few seconds of silence in that scene. And the "I don't wanna wrestle" scene! I think I might have to go dig out that DVD. *g*

Thank you!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hugs you:) I feel so much better now that I know I'm not the only one who's letting the titles go to make room for other stuff:)

[sugargroupie.livejournal.com]

I need the distraction, so, tell me your favorite Chiana, Chiana/John or Chiana/Aeryn moments from the show, or what you would've liked to see.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Favorite Chiana: So, so many. But I think the middle of Bad Timing when she's suggesting sex as a solution. Because it's not at all seductive, just seems like the best idea she can think of, and because she's finally come back into her own.

Favorite Chi/John: Maybe the moment in Taking the Stone right before he knocks her out because they're at such cross purposes, are such family there, and he honestly, honestly believes he has the right to make that decision for her and she trusts him, is betrayed and it's Aeryn who makes him see that he can't follow through, that he doesn't have the right.

Chi/Aeryn: The beginning of UR, when Chi is leaning over her shoulder, filled with so much more understanding than Aeryn has, is the grownup for once in the face of Aeryn's own immaturity and hope, the way that role is reversed for those moments of compassion. They'd come so very far to get to that place.

[(Anonymous)]

I would love to see what you could do with boys on a road trip and staying in crappy motels.

(In some ways, 'family and road trip and rock' is *all* that SPN is about. I keep trying to watch it for the plot but canon keeps interferring.)

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Fannish glee...

I'll let you pick, as you'll likely have to make something up (/firefly ref)-

- (And remember that meme a couple years back - make up a memory of us? that was cool)-

Lord of the Rings, Miles Naismith novels, or Star Trek.

- hg

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Rings: Books and movie- the moment when Eowyn reveals herself. I love that she was that strong, that she takes such damage and is so bright and brave, and saves them. Because she was a girl in this man's story and she made a difference.

Vorkosigan novels - Hmm. I think my favorite moment is when Miles decides to lie about his actions. Because he'd never faced consequences before, and it made him more to face up to his lie, to become someone new and make a difference.

Star Trek - I am inordinately, riduculously fond of the moment in the Trouble with Tribbles when they come rolling out of the storage compartment. I know that sounds like the most pedestrian of responses but I imprinted VERY heavily on that episode:)

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

1. "Asylum," the first ep I saw, overall not the best but memorable especially for the chick whose boyfriend wants to explore the haunted mental institution and then gets scared shitless. Sammy leaves them with a shotgun to ward off the scary things that go bump and the guy's all hysterical, "What am I supposed to do with that? I don't know how to use a gun!" And the chick takes it, and racks it, and says, "I do." I'm paraphrasing here, but you get the point. THAT was the moment I fell in love with how this show treats women. Because they look all surface, all T&A (not that I'm complaining, exactly), like Maxim Daytime, and they scream like they're in a slasher flick. But 9 times out of 10, they're also stronger than they look.

2. Cheating here for a two-way tie of women previously on "Angel" who I liked better here: Darla (Julie Benz, I mean), in "Faith," probably my favorite stand-alone ep yet. I don't even have a good MOMENT for you here, but she's subtly heartbreaking. And, more shockingly, Amy Acker, who I have never really truly liked in anything EXCEPT "Dead in the Water," mostly because she looks right at Dean, and even only three or four eps in we knew that Dean was that guy, and she sees right through his pick-up line. But she trusts him around her kid anyway, and she lets him try his bad lines, lets him get them out, because what can it hurt at this point.

3. The girl I always call Meg from when she was on VMars, who's on this season for a handful of eps, and who is either going to be RELATED to someone (I know no spoilers, only speculating here) or really be the woman Dean deserves, because any chick who greets him with a gun pressed to his ass and then clocks him, and THEN pre-empts his pick-up line by making sure he knows just how every hunter in the land has tried it on him is maybe a girl who can make that man settle down.

That is to say, this show IS all about road trips and classic rock and family, and man oh man, as a family drama girl through and through -- this show gives good family. Some of the best, actually, I think, real and painful and true and guy-like till it hurts, of course. But mostly, they get siblings right. Which is nice.

subject should have been: 3 Supernatural Women I Love

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

Because LJ kept eating this response, then half spitting it out on the other side.

Re: subject should have been: 3 Supernatural Women I Love

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen the first two eps you mentioned, and I did really like that the girl in the haunted house was stronger than she looked.

I think I'm going to give the show a try once my big show is over because even though I still would like to see women as a constant presence, I'm craving the whole road trip and bitching at your family thing right now.