A Lightkeeper's Log

Day Fifteen: In your own space, share a favourite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.

I've had so many wonderful times staying with friends I met through fandom. The earliest was rohan_lady, who I met in a romance roleplay board on Tolkien Online. Our characters dated for years, but never got past first base. She turned out to be this wonderful, effervescent Aussie chick, who came to visit me here and we roadtripped across the province. It was amazing. I remember hanging out at this Hostel in Jasper and sweet-talking this English guy and a Kiwi (who hadn't met before either) into driving us down the Icefield Parkway, and just spending the day all four of us going Holy Fuck! Mountains!

My first about six months on LJ, I was into Master & Commander fandom pretty seriously. I had seen the film but was just starting to read the books and like cruisedirector, esteven, seascribe and sparowe were about my only friends (and we're still friends!) The only one gone of that crowd is Bronzelionel, who I still miss fiercely. I used to enter in the drabble challenges over at mandc100, I think Pullings was my favourite character, so I used to award all my rum to him (you got a virtual shot of rum for every drabble that fit the prompt), and everyone was so friendly and lovely even when I hadn't read the books at all.

I stayed with esteven and saw windmill museums and the Wall and ancient churches full of modern art, and watched Starsky & Hutch and The Professionals

Later, I was hovering at the edges of SGA fandom and svmadelyn hosted the Summary Ficathon: The SV and SGA Version, where people wrote terrible, terrible summaries then other people wrote stories for them. I didn't even get a story but I still had a fantastic time. I hadn't written anything in an age, and my story wasn't even very good by crack standards, but people liked it, and I loved reading all the other stories.

Immediately hitting it off with artemis_rain at a party because we both loved Ianto in that TW ep where he thought he was a serial killer, and then dating her for eight months and staying friends to this day.

I spent a week with linaelyn and her beautiful family, and we went to the Computer History Museum to watch a working model of Babbage's Difference Engine, ate wonderful food, and watched Iron Man.

Then there was comics fandom. Man, that's been my fannish life for years now. I remember the excitement of writing again, writing because I loved it, Sea Stars taking shape under my fingers as I inhaled canon and altered as I went. Getting and leaving reviews and reading all the fic I could find. Deciding to step up as co-mod of the ship comm and meeting two wonderful friends in my sister mods. Having to stretch myself as I learned to run challenges and moderate a quickly growing community of fellow fans. Still wanting to write and read all the fic imaginable.

I visited culurien and marinarusalka and went on tall ships, and lighthouses and city tours, and had more amazing food and watched SPN and read comics and lost at Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit.

Going to WisCon, stayed with garrideb, my first convention ever, and the amazing feeling of wow, this is my species. Here's a conference of a thousand fannish women and men, who I can talk to and who want to hear what I have to say and who think so many fascinating shiny things. We stayed up too late and got up too early every day, and being absolutely exhausted by the end. We read piles of comics and watched Buffy and... god, I don't even remember. STUFF! It was amazing. I ate so much fried cheese and drank so much local beer. Wisconsin is AMAZING.

And of course I met Nenya through fandom. Oddly neither of us remember which one. Possible The Lord of the Rings, through the PPC. She's sitting across from me reading Doctor Who/B5 crack fic, and I love her very much.

Thank you, fandom.

Preview of coming attractions:

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From seascribe, but altered by me because I didn't like how the original questions repeated, so I changed them.

List five of your OTPs and answer the questions:
1. Steve/Tony (Marvel Comics)
2. Misty/Colleen (Marvel Comics)
3. Luke/Danny (Marvel Comics)
4. Booster/Ted (DCl Comics)
5. Duncan/Joe (Highlander)

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From kayim (I think, this was ages ago).

1. List Ten characters. (Don't look behind the cut first!)
2. Fill the character's names into the prompts listed behind the cut.
3. Write something at least a hundred words long for each prompt

I will completely admit to cheating on this. I listed ten characters but then didn't like how it worked out (remind me not to include teenagers in these things), so I got Nenya to give me a different list. She didn't look at the prompts though, so I think it still counts.
1. Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)
2. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
3. Misty Knight (Marvel Comics)
4. Luke Cage (Marvel Comics)
5. Kate Kane/Batwoman (DC Comics)
6. Michael Jon Carter/Booster Gold (DC Comics)
7. Boromir (The Lord of the Rings)
8. Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
9. Wendy Watson (The Middleman)
10. Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings)

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Finally, I managed to get around to finishing the batch of icons that I'd been meaning to do for like three years now. I thereby present ( 51 Faiza Hussian/Excalibur Icons )

I feel like I should comment somehow on LJ, as everyone seems to. I still keep a flist there as some people too dear to leave and a couple comms are pretty settled, but for the most part I post here. I sympathise hugely with people who use it as their primary blog, but this whole thing has made me think pretty well of LJ management. They are finally standing by their users as best they can.

If you like poetry check out this tag, snowynight has been posting her own translations of some of her favourite Chinese poetry. They are quite beautiful.

I've been listening to the BBC Radio version of The Lord of the Rings, which has had a few effects on my life.

It has, for example, made me want to use the exclamation Behold! more than I currently do. I also kind of want to wander around describing my interactions with things and stating the bleeding obvious for the benefit of people who can't see what I'm doing. "Behold! Just above the hills, there is a small red and white helicopter. I wonder if it is bringing me my groceries." Ah, radio plays.

I've also been thinking of how it's like Babylon 5. I think the main way is the scale. I get so used to TV shows that are about a rag tag group of outcasts who change the world from the ground up because no one expects them. You have that in both LotR and B5, but there are also major powerhouses on the field, making top down changes because they have systemic power behind them. Aragorn is the heir to kings and wields Andúril and the palantír by right. Delenn is a member of the ruling council of Minbar, and legitimately reshapes her government as she goes. And there's prophecy, destiny, magic, going into the West, a thousand-year-old war, and Rangers.

Looking for B5 fic recs. Anyone know good Susan/Talia fixit, Jeff/Michael happy ending, or Marcus/Stephen anything at all?

Trying this as a format. Please let me know if it works for you, if it doesn't or if there is some point for improvement.

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Next Post 19 January - 1.1 A Long-expected Party

I'm about to embark on my first re read of The Lord of the Rings in about... shit a long time, since before the films came out at least.

I was wondering if anyone was interested in participating in a readalong or any event of that kind.

Express your interest in the following:



Okay, one of the questions is not like the others. I had in mind that this rereading would probably focus on Boromir quite a bit, so we'll see how that goes.

Write a comment with "Five Words" in it, and I'll list five things I associate with you. You must then go on about them at length in your own journal.

jazzypom gave me:

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