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[katallison]

Last night, under the influence of Jameson's, I blathered some pompous blather in sanj's comments about the virtues of neutrality in fandom wars, but this morning it struck me that that's a much easier stance to maintain when one's chief fandoms are--not dead, certainly, but resting quietly. Highlander and due South have seen some mighty battles in their time, god knows, but nowadays it's rather like picnicking at Gettysburg. (I like picnics, I should add, and also nice peaceful memorial statuary, and green grass.)

My fannish turf feels a bit shrunken these days. Buffy--still watching, still liking a lot, still feeling no temptation to either write it or get drawn into any fracases about it. (What is the plural of fracas? Fracii?) Angel--now that it's moving to Wednesday, which is a night that (for complex personal reasons) I can neither watch nor tape, I'll probably let it go, or maybe borrow tapes from someone, but my emotional investment in it is meager in any event. Smallville--I was taping it for a while, with the idea of watching the episodes at some point, but I realized that that point never actually arrived, and so I've just let it go, though I still read Omar's recaps. Harry Potter--I am perhaps the only person in fandom who's neither read the books nor seen either of the movies, so I basically ignore it and all its ructions. Firefly--I am enjoying this a great deal, though trying not to get emotionally invested, since its status is still shaky and I'm in no mood to get my legs chopped off from under me. (Firefly also seems to have not yet generated its first big fannish war, which makes it a pleasant place to hang.) LotR--dug the first movie, looking forward to TT, have essentially zero interest in fanfiction about it, of either the FP or RP variety. Popslash--have zero interest in it, though I enjoy watching my friends having the sparkly fun.

So really, I'm not Switzerland so much as -- Iceland, say, sitting nice and peaceful in my underpopulated little stretch of the North Atlantic. Apart from writing, my fannish participation these days is much more about the people I enjoy, and their conversations, than it is about the shows themselves, which is fine by me. It does sometimes give me the odd feeling that at some point when I wasn't looking I morphed into a geezer; but being a geezer is also fine by me <settling golf hat on head, hitching up Sansabelt slacks>.

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[barkley.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of Iceland. I don't know how long I'd last being Icelandic if the Stargate wars ever made their way over into blog land, but until that happens, Iceland it is.