Two Memes

[browngirl]

I'm trying not to write a different post, so have a meme that's going around:

Ask me any fandom-related questions in the comments. They can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general.

Questions can be as wacky as you want and have as many subparts as you like. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want. [However, you may not ask what post it is I'm trying not to write.]

Fandoms of mine include: Babylon 5, DC Comics, Doctor Who & Torchwood (Nu Who), the Ancient Egyptians, Firefly, Heinlein novels, LOTR, Mary Renault, Mercedes Lackey Novels (back in the ‘90s), the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete, NUMB3RS, Pern, Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Reboot, Star Wars, and Bujold’s Vorkosiverse.

The first comment is the answer to another meme, of Five Questions which 6street gave me a really long time ago.

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Five Questions

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

1. What are your favorite operas?

Nothing you haven't heard of before: Carmen Jones, its originator Carmen (so problematic, so beautiful), Aida, old chestnuts like that. I think my love of opera gave me my love of rock opera, so although I won't count La Boheme I will count RENT.

2. What bothers you the most about Trek fandom?

Seeing the usual patterns show up here, first and foremost the hatred of Uhura and Spock/Uhura. God, but internalized misogyny in action makes me sad. OTOH, here it gets argued with and challenged -- in the first fandom I was in on LJ, that kind of shit was absolutely lauded.

[A note -- I'm not talking about preferences here. We all have preferences -- how much Scotty!fic have I written? But I don't hate Scotty at all! I just love other people more than I love him. I certainly wouldn't write long screeds about how random and undeserved it is that he's Chief Engineer or whatever would be the equivalent to all the hatred of Uhura.]

3. What is your fondest Harvard memory?

I don't think I can pick! Sitting up in bed beside my first good boyfriend and looking at the snow falling outside his Quincy House window. Being handed a Sumerian bowl and feeling my fingers fit into grooves made by fingers that have been dust for five millenia . Sitting on one of the Widener pylons singing "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" with the other members of HRSFA. Staying up all night talking about philosophy because I could. Realizing over and over, in Lamont's stacks, in Sackler's galleries, in Science Center labs, the limitlessness of the universe of knowledge before me. I loved Harvard. Someone else could probably have done better by society for going there, but I'm so grateful they wasted that education on me.

4. What role does fandom play in your life?

An intellectual outlet and a community.

The first is currently prominent -- I write because every comment, every discussion, every motif I use, every jot and tittle of my efforts at character voices and every single time people recognize these things, they are all antidotes against day after day of a job where easily half the people I encounter think I'm dumber than a bag of hammers. Fortunately, my coworkers mostly don't, but it still gets to me sometimes. The second is longer lasting, though; since I was in high school and in Mercedes Lackey's mail-mediated fanclub, I have adored and reveled in the concept and the realities of communities formed around, not coincidence of geography or ethnicity or religion, but shared interests. I love that about fandom, and when surrounded by people who don't understand how I could've seen Star Trek eight times, I need it.

5. You've mentioned your roommates before. Who do you live with?

Three redheads and a silver-eyed Teddywolf.

My roommates are tigerbright, who is the big sister I never had, and her husband and singing partner teddywolf, and their two winsome children, a boy of four and a girl of two. Tigerbright and her kids all have flaming red hair, and Wolf has changeable often silver eyes.

[boosette.livejournal.com]

What's your favorite comfort ship/the one you turn to for warm fuzzy happytimes?

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Pern! I don't think I knew you were into Pern. Okay, hmmm. Who's your favorite Pern character and why?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

What do you consider to be your first fandom? (I suppose the Lackey'd be it, but perhaps I'm wrong!)

[gingicat]

Numb3rs!

Do you think an Amita-Charlie-David-Colby foursome would work? ;)

What do you think Alan was like as a child?

[spikeface.livejournal.com]

What draws you to the Mirrorverse when you write/read it?

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Why is Susan Ivanova awesome?

[sophinisba]

How do you feel when people on your f-list post a lot about fandoms that hold no interest for you? Do you have any of the kind of situation where you've given a show or a fandom a chance, given up on it because you can't stand the racism and/or misogyny, and your friends continue to squee about it, and how does that make you feel? Have your attitudes about these things changed over the years you've been on LJ?

I loved your answers to 6street's questions!

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Why do you think in LOTR fic that the era around the Troubles appealed so much to you?

(gosh this is all I can think of, others have asked much better questions omg)

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Do you have any comfort fics in the Reboot fandom, ie stories you read over and over? If so...what are they and why?

[eppic.livejournal.com]

What in specific draws you to Bones/Kirk as a pairing, and what do you try to focus on about them when you're writing them?

[marymack19.livejournal.com]

Tell me about Hikaru Sulu?

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Totally off-topic... but... you're going to be at Arisia? I'm so excited! See you there, yes? :D

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

How do you combat the DCU nostalgia blues?