hedda62 | January posting meme: larger fandom wishes (Reply)

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.)