Ruth Sadelle Alderson

I probably comment too often and am just getting irritating. That being said, I love your posts--and I think you should post your fic to more comms because it's so original and refreshing. AO3 would be a really easy way for you to do that because of the way searches work on there. I find it WAY easier to find random fic over there and I think you'd find more bandom readers if you cross-posted over there and then you'd get more comments. I want you to get more comments on your fic because I'd actually like to talk to other people about your fic.(I know this sounds crazy and stalkerish, but I think you're exploring things in an intersting way that is worthy of more meta conversation--I mean I enjoy your fic knowing virtually nothing about bandom.)

I wish people would do more of these kind of posts on LJ because it's what gives me an actual sense of folks and you don't have to join a whole comm to get some interesting fannish conversation. Comms are great, but can be kind of exhausting. You know I love your "outness" about being a fangirl--and I'm finding that I'm way more out than an awful lot of people, at least in the Adam fandom. A lot of people seem to have husbands and partners who don't even read their fic, which is kind of amazing to me for a variety of reasons that mostly are related to how much I'm blown away but the lack of intimacy and connection in a lot of people's most significant relationships. Which sounds more judgmental than I mean to be, but whatever. But Facebook is just a completely different medium for me--I'd never want people to link to my LJ from there.

On the other hand, I think one of the most appealing things about fandom is getting to have a second identity--and I can totally see why some people have multiple fandom names.


I wish people would have more "meta" type conversations on their LJ entries too, because that shit totally fascinates me.

As to the separation of fanfic from the people we write about--yep, that ship has sailed. But it does give me pause when I write...and I guess I have a double standard because I am glad that others don't have this hesitation.

Finally--it confuses me how specific people are in fandom--like folks in the Adam world who won't read anything that isn't Kradam. On the other hand, I also get that what works about fanfic is the specificity, the in-jokes, the individual culture of each fandom. Bandom is particularly bewildering to me because there are so many damn characters and no narrative line--or maybe I just dont' get the narrative line. I see what's easier about TV, movie fandom. RPS requires a disturbing level of obsession. I'd never go there--oops, speaking of ships that have already sailed ;) I just get that it would be friggin' exhuasting to obsess over more than one or two worlds of real people. Anyhow, I'd love to see more "thinky thinky" posts from you because that's what's interesting to me.