SGA Love?

[paraka]

So, I keep thinking to myself, "Self, you need more SGA people on your flist, because people are what makes LJ cool, and in a stupid defriending mood you got rid of all the QaF people on your flist, and now are all alone". Also, "SGA is awesome, and totally fun, so SGA fans should be as well."

Thing is, as it is now, I'm really on the outskirts of the SGA fandom. I come across some awesome fics, I'm on some Yahoo groups that give me a lot of the lowdown on other matters, and don't ever have to interact. I interacted quite a bit in the QaF fandom, and I miss that sometimes. But you know, now I'm kind of afraid of trying in the SGA fandom.

I was barely touched by the whole racist thing that happened (and appears to still be happening). I mostly read the Fandom Wank stuff, and wrote my own little post (that got way more attention than I ever wanted). But sometime after that I put sga_newsletter on my flist, and have followed some of the meta.

Now obviously I'm not that into the fandom, because I keep hearing people talking about how bitchy the fandom is, how it explodes everytime someone says somethin, how people are just... not nice. SGA people on my flist, have you noticed this? Because if the fandom is really like that, I think I'll keep my current level of involvement. Or maybe the problem is reading meta. I don't actually like meta. Mostly because when I stumble across it, I feel I need to read every comment and every link, and then it's *days* later by the time *I'm* finished, and fandom is still going strong.

Also, now I'm kind of afraid of ever publicly posting what annoys me in fandom. Or what I think on the current "hot topic". Seriously. maekala, thank god for our e-mails, you let me rant :) *loves*

...Maybe I should go back to a locked journal...?

Comments

[keewick.livejournal.com]

SGA is just like any fandom. People always like to say how one fandom is especially bitchy or another is all sunshine and roses and it's just not true, or at least in my experience it hasn't been. Fans are fans are fans, but if you're lucky you fall in with other likeminded (not to mention super talented) individuals and get to reap the benefits.

Although I must admit I'm in SGA fandom mostly for fic of the McKay/Sheppard variety, so a lot of the crap that goes down passes me by. It's the meta and episode discussions that stir everyone up, and personally SGA isn't about Deep Thought for me, so avoiding both isn't that great of a loss. The show is fun and funny and oh so pretty, and what substance it lacks is better left to the brilliant online writers to devise after the fact imo.

Anyway, I guess I'll just add one more thing: if QAF was a good fandom experience for you then SGA probably would be, too. They're not so different and if anything I think SGA is overall less wanky than QAF was, plus better writers seemed to have gravitated toward it.

[paraka]

SGA is just like any fandom. People always like to say how one fandom is especially bitchy or another is all sunshine and roses and it's just not true, or at least in my experience it hasn't been.
I think it's all about where you hang out, and what you let bother you. Some people are really sensitive to things, other people don't notice anything going on at all.

Although I must admit I'm in SGA fandom mostly for fic of the McKay/Sheppard variety, so a lot of the crap that goes down passes me by. It's the meta and episode discussions that stir everyone up, and personally SGA isn't about Deep Thought for me, so avoiding both isn't that great of a loss.
Yeah, SGA is all about the fun. I don't think I've ever been in a fandom with quite so much crack!fic. It's great, but sometimes I do miss the Deeper Thoughts, and darker fic, but for the most part, I just love this fandom.

I think last night I was just kind of baffled that so many people are like "This fandom's so *mean*!!!" and I was like "Wha? Are we in the same fandom?"

QAF was a good fandom experience for you then SGA probably would be, too. They're not so different and if anything I think SGA is overall less wanky than QAF was, plus better writers seemed to have gravitated toward it.
Yeah, I managed to avoid most of the QaF wank, but I *was* aware of it. And OMG yes the writers are soooo much better than in QaF (as a whole), or maybe I'm just being choosier in SGA since there's so much of it. But I read some truly horrificly bad fics in QaF :P