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I wrote a tiny Doctor Who fic this week and now I'm up to date on the episodes (even ahead from a Canadian POV), I've been reading some fic without having to worry about being spoiled. Good stuff, too.
And I realised something.
It's too late to join in.
The show's been airing for, what, ten or eleven weeks, and I missed the boat. I don't feel clued in as to the conventions, the fanon. I don't feel confident. Which, when you think how late I joined the Buffy fandom (as a writer not a viewer) is a little strange.
It's an odd fandom in that it's both very old and brand new. I should feel at home in both camps really; as a 41 year old Englishwoman I was there from very early on and any of the original series I missed through not being born were repeated often; I can't remember them all (there were a _lot_) but I've seen them; they're in the dusty recesses of my mind.
The hiding behind the sofa cliche? Not an urban myth. We did. I did. It got scary.
I own a Dr Who (yes, it's spelled that way on the cover ;-)) album from 1974 featuring Pertwee. I clearly, vividly remember watching Pertwee morph into Baker and (no vids then) carrying the image of a profile and bushy brown hair in my head, wondering what he would be like when the next series aired.
It takes some adjusting to, the change in Doctors but we were used to it.
I got in trouble at school because Dotor Who scarves were the fashion (the school was freezing so it was practical) and mine was so very long it swept the floor.
I read dozens of the books as a child.
I'm as able as anyone to write within the fandom but I probably won't now I've scratched the itch with what my harshest critic says was a contrived and confusing fic (if you've been reading this LJ long, you'll know who that is ;-)).
I feel like Buffy with the magic lint watching the world rush by and I can't catch up. Too many new fandoms, too much to take in.
I'll be over here with my scarf wrapped around my head, quivering slightly.
And as well as being (naked) in Rope with ASH and AD (also naked, all three of them gay ::mind melts::), John Barrowman was in Megalodon 3. Presumably RS wasn't in that, as he was in the first, rather dire, one, but I want Captain Jack/Ethan fic and I want it now ;-)
And I realised something.
It's too late to join in.
The show's been airing for, what, ten or eleven weeks, and I missed the boat. I don't feel clued in as to the conventions, the fanon. I don't feel confident. Which, when you think how late I joined the Buffy fandom (as a writer not a viewer) is a little strange.
It's an odd fandom in that it's both very old and brand new. I should feel at home in both camps really; as a 41 year old Englishwoman I was there from very early on and any of the original series I missed through not being born were repeated often; I can't remember them all (there were a _lot_) but I've seen them; they're in the dusty recesses of my mind.
The hiding behind the sofa cliche? Not an urban myth. We did. I did. It got scary.
I own a Dr Who (yes, it's spelled that way on the cover ;-)) album from 1974 featuring Pertwee. I clearly, vividly remember watching Pertwee morph into Baker and (no vids then) carrying the image of a profile and bushy brown hair in my head, wondering what he would be like when the next series aired.
It takes some adjusting to, the change in Doctors but we were used to it.
I got in trouble at school because Dotor Who scarves were the fashion (the school was freezing so it was practical) and mine was so very long it swept the floor.
I read dozens of the books as a child.
I'm as able as anyone to write within the fandom but I probably won't now I've scratched the itch with what my harshest critic says was a contrived and confusing fic (if you've been reading this LJ long, you'll know who that is ;-)).
I feel like Buffy with the magic lint watching the world rush by and I can't catch up. Too many new fandoms, too much to take in.
I'll be over here with my scarf wrapped around my head, quivering slightly.
And as well as being (naked) in Rope with ASH and AD (also naked, all three of them gay ::mind melts::), John Barrowman was in Megalodon 3. Presumably RS wasn't in that, as he was in the first, rather dire, one, but I want Captain Jack/Ethan fic and I want it now ;-)