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New fandom, old problems
Jan. 14th, 2006 09:18 pmSo, these days I know what I'm doing with BtVS fic. I know how to find the good stuff. I'm on the right mailing lists, I hear from tireless readers like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
makd, and the people on my Flist rec (and write) plenty of stuff worth reading. There's so much good material out there that I haven't made the slightest attempt at keeping up, even if such a thing were possible. But when I'm in the mood, I can always find something.
But currently I'm hunting down Veronica Mars fics and it's reminding me of my first wobbly steps into BtVS fandom. I google for rec lists and then try and work out if the recommender and I have similar tastes. I'm a half a season behind US viewers, so I take care to avoid spoilers; but every time I catch the smallest hint I'm struck down by this awful pit-of-the-stomach fear that I won't enjoy the second season as much as the first. I am nauseous with fear for my favourite characters and character arcs in a way I haven't felt since the latter days of BtVS and Angel. I LOATHE this feeling. LOATHE IT! It's like having a crush. "You're not the show I thought you were and you toy with my affections!"
Anyway, this week I've waded through much middling Veronica/Logan and some excellent Veronica/Logan and a whole bunch of fic that I find extremely irritating because of the way they handle legal technicalities such as ( [vaguely spoilerly for Season 1 without mentioning whodunnit]. ) Character studies and genfic seem thin on the ground. Hell, anything that isn't Veronica/Logan seems thin on the ground, but maybe that's due to a poor sampling of rec lists on my part. Most of the stories speculate on what happened immediately post-season, which is fair enough. And there's a lack of complexity, which I should really expect in a show that's barely started -- BtVS was already five years old by the time I started reading the fic.
But still, there are some joys of the kind peculiar to fanfic. I found an enjoyable character study -- of Leo of all people.wisteria_ writes fine Veronica/Logan the way she wrote fine Buffy/Spike. I can think to myself,"I want to read a story about Duncan ( [spoiler for 1.21] ) and lo! I can find one. I have taken to Logan/Meg as a sublimated way of satisfying my desire for post-NFA-Spike/anyone-who'd-be-nice-to-him.
And I can stumble over a bizarre crossover that somehow, against all odds, works:dark_roast's Fish Out of Water (Spoilers for all of Season 1). Logan spends a summer in Arkham. Yes, that's right, it's a Veronica Mars-Lovecraft Mythos crossover, one with some hilarious lines in it, and which sometimes reads like a children's adventure story; it appeases the fanfic gods by ( [spoiler for the story] ). Ah, fanfic.
So, can anyone rec me some recs?
makd, and the people on my Flist rec (and write) plenty of stuff worth reading. There's so much good material out there that I haven't made the slightest attempt at keeping up, even if such a thing were possible. But when I'm in the mood, I can always find something.But currently I'm hunting down Veronica Mars fics and it's reminding me of my first wobbly steps into BtVS fandom. I google for rec lists and then try and work out if the recommender and I have similar tastes. I'm a half a season behind US viewers, so I take care to avoid spoilers; but every time I catch the smallest hint I'm struck down by this awful pit-of-the-stomach fear that I won't enjoy the second season as much as the first. I am nauseous with fear for my favourite characters and character arcs in a way I haven't felt since the latter days of BtVS and Angel. I LOATHE this feeling. LOATHE IT! It's like having a crush. "You're not the show I thought you were and you toy with my affections!"
Anyway, this week I've waded through much middling Veronica/Logan and some excellent Veronica/Logan and a whole bunch of fic that I find extremely irritating because of the way they handle legal technicalities such as ( [vaguely spoilerly for Season 1 without mentioning whodunnit]. ) Character studies and genfic seem thin on the ground. Hell, anything that isn't Veronica/Logan seems thin on the ground, but maybe that's due to a poor sampling of rec lists on my part. Most of the stories speculate on what happened immediately post-season, which is fair enough. And there's a lack of complexity, which I should really expect in a show that's barely started -- BtVS was already five years old by the time I started reading the fic.
But still, there are some joys of the kind peculiar to fanfic. I found an enjoyable character study -- of Leo of all people.
wisteria_ writes fine Veronica/Logan the way she wrote fine Buffy/Spike. I can think to myself,"I want to read a story about Duncan ( [spoiler for 1.21] ) and lo! I can find one. I have taken to Logan/Meg as a sublimated way of satisfying my desire for post-NFA-Spike/anyone-who'd-be-nice-to-him.And I can stumble over a bizarre crossover that somehow, against all odds, works:
dark_roast's Fish Out of Water (Spoilers for all of Season 1). Logan spends a summer in Arkham. Yes, that's right, it's a Veronica Mars-Lovecraft Mythos crossover, one with some hilarious lines in it, and which sometimes reads like a children's adventure story; it appeases the fanfic gods by ( [spoiler for the story] ). Ah, fanfic.So, can anyone rec me some recs?
