January posting meme: larger fandom wishes

[hedda62]

eris asked if there was anything I wished had a larger fandom, and hahahahaME, but the answer is… yes and no. Of course there are so many things that I wish more people had read and seen and were willing to discuss and shout about and write fic for. I will just mention, yet again, Reginald Hill's mystery novels, and also Christopher Fowler's, and I wish Slings and Arrows had a larger fandom than it does, and so forth; I could list things for days.

But then again… I can't be alone in feeling that often when fandoms expand they change, and not always for the better, so I can't actually wish huge fandom status on anything I love. I'm still pretty curmudgeonly where fandom participation is concerned (my reluctant immersion in all things POI is a significant exception), and so I guess really what I mean when I say "such-and-such needs a larger fandom" is "all my friends should read/see this." I just want to talk to people about stuff, not have vast number of fans I don't know posting gifs on tumblr and writing bad slashfic.

And yes. I should really do Yuletide one of these years. I just wish it wasn't at Christmas, you know? Because a) busy, and b) the time of year I am usually least able to write for psychological reasons. (But just maybe I'll crank out that Bryant & May/Rivers of London crossover sometime this year.)

Comments

[philomytha]

Haha, yes, 'I want a larger fandom for this' really means 'I want everyone I know to come play in this fandom with me'. Fortunately I find that a concentrated attack of enthusiasm can coax a few other people to play with a fandom at least a little bit :-).

Bryant and May, hm? I'm sure you've mentioned them before, so I shall look them up.

[hedda62]

I think I may have mentioned them a few times, yes. :) You do that now. And yes, "concentrated attack of enthusiasm." I've been on both ends of that, for sure.

[philomytha]

The first book is winging its way through the post to me now :-).