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gao tagged me for the Association Meme!
Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this to your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
Here's what I got:
1. Talk about some of your less high-profile/pop-culturey fandoms?
Well. My first fandom -- in the sense of an organized collective of fans, rather than in the sense of the first work of fiction I fell in love with -- was Disney's Gargoyles. The whole deal -- having in-depth discussion on the comment boards, writing fanfic, writing group fanfic, helping organize the first and second annual convention.
The thing about Gargoyles: it was intelligent, it was literary, it didn't talk down to its viewers, it was dark. And it was part of the Disney Afternoon lineup. I will cheerfully admit that it's been surpassed since in some respects, but it's still a damn good two seasons. (We do not talk about the third season, when they got rid of the show's creator and farmed the animation out to Nelvana.)
Let's see, what else. In terms of just canons I love that aren't high-profile ... Life, I suppose. And the animated Teen Titans, and ... see, I'm not at all sure what's considered high-profile and what's not, because I don't follow fanfic.net or any other decent gauge of what's popular. Oh -- I can tell you one very low-profile fandom I'm part of, though. The October Daye books, coming this fall from DAW. Keep an eye out.
2. What is it about filk?
It's the singing together. It's the people who can be counted on to catch my references and groan at my jokes, and it's getting to hear harp and hammered-dulcimer and bodhran and ocarina played by folk who know what they're doing, and it's the community, and it's the belief in the colonization of space, and it's writing and hearing songs on fannish topics, and it's appreciation of really good parody, and it's genre-bending, and it's a hell of a lot of other things ... but I think probably ahead of everything else, it's the singing together.
3. Your neighborhood.
My neighborhood ... is odd. In a lot of ways. The one I'm thinking about right now is the cost-of-housing bubble, because so far as I know it still hasn't gone down despite the economy. It has to eventually, but I worry.
I wonder sometimes whether the economics of a densely Jewish-Orthodox neighborhood make any sense at all to anyone who doesn't know, for instance, why it is seen as crucial and non-negotiable to live within reasonable walking distance of one's synagogue.
4. Cooking.
It's funny; if you ask me to describe myself I'm not likely to say "a good cook" until fairly far down the list, and if you ask me what I enjoy doing I'm not likely to say "cooking" that early either. But cooking is something I enjoy a lot; I find it deeply soothing, and -- I don't know, can I say 'fulfilling'? Is that too hokey? And it's something that I do well, and that I'm (justly, if I do say it) proud of.
I've been known to say, only partly in jest, that I've got a genetic predisposition to feed people. It definitely runs in my family, and it's sufficiently prevalent in my ethnicity to be a stereotype. Ess, ess, mein kind.
5. Alex! I'm interested in marriages today.
... I don't even know where to start. It'll be ten years we've been married come the end of May, and we're still disgustingly in love. Still finishing each other's sentences and capping each other's quotations and anticipating each other's punchlines.
Ten years. What the hell, you guys.
gao tagged me for the Association Meme!Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this to your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
Here's what I got:
1. Talk about some of your less high-profile/pop-culturey fandoms?
Well. My first fandom -- in the sense of an organized collective of fans, rather than in the sense of the first work of fiction I fell in love with -- was Disney's Gargoyles. The whole deal -- having in-depth discussion on the comment boards, writing fanfic, writing group fanfic, helping organize the first and second annual convention.
The thing about Gargoyles: it was intelligent, it was literary, it didn't talk down to its viewers, it was dark. And it was part of the Disney Afternoon lineup. I will cheerfully admit that it's been surpassed since in some respects, but it's still a damn good two seasons. (We do not talk about the third season, when they got rid of the show's creator and farmed the animation out to Nelvana.)
Let's see, what else. In terms of just canons I love that aren't high-profile ... Life, I suppose. And the animated Teen Titans, and ... see, I'm not at all sure what's considered high-profile and what's not, because I don't follow fanfic.net or any other decent gauge of what's popular. Oh -- I can tell you one very low-profile fandom I'm part of, though. The October Daye books, coming this fall from DAW. Keep an eye out.
2. What is it about filk?
It's the singing together. It's the people who can be counted on to catch my references and groan at my jokes, and it's getting to hear harp and hammered-dulcimer and bodhran and ocarina played by folk who know what they're doing, and it's the community, and it's the belief in the colonization of space, and it's writing and hearing songs on fannish topics, and it's appreciation of really good parody, and it's genre-bending, and it's a hell of a lot of other things ... but I think probably ahead of everything else, it's the singing together.
3. Your neighborhood.
My neighborhood ... is odd. In a lot of ways. The one I'm thinking about right now is the cost-of-housing bubble, because so far as I know it still hasn't gone down despite the economy. It has to eventually, but I worry.
I wonder sometimes whether the economics of a densely Jewish-Orthodox neighborhood make any sense at all to anyone who doesn't know, for instance, why it is seen as crucial and non-negotiable to live within reasonable walking distance of one's synagogue.
4. Cooking.
It's funny; if you ask me to describe myself I'm not likely to say "a good cook" until fairly far down the list, and if you ask me what I enjoy doing I'm not likely to say "cooking" that early either. But cooking is something I enjoy a lot; I find it deeply soothing, and -- I don't know, can I say 'fulfilling'? Is that too hokey? And it's something that I do well, and that I'm (justly, if I do say it) proud of.
I've been known to say, only partly in jest, that I've got a genetic predisposition to feed people. It definitely runs in my family, and it's sufficiently prevalent in my ethnicity to be a stereotype. Ess, ess, mein kind.
5. Alex! I'm interested in marriages today.
... I don't even know where to start. It'll be ten years we've been married come the end of May, and we're still disgustingly in love. Still finishing each other's sentences and capping each other's quotations and anticipating each other's punchlines.
Ten years. What the hell, you guys.