Torchwood! I just rewatched the "real" Captain Jack episode the other day--that and Countrycide are my favorites. Well, a lot of season 1. And yeah, once you read enough of British people writing it, when you come across someone who didn't Brit-pick it well enough it can be confusing! Like the reverse, like if Bruce Wayne were to reference his "trousers" or a "bin." I was reading an Avengers story the other day where the author mentioned the character getting something "in the post" and I was like no! Captain America doesn't get anything in the post! If Ianto starts sounding like he's from New York City or something, it's not good.
I have stayed the heck away from Tumblr. I already spend too much time not doing what I should be doing! I'm not sure my brain can process yet another new way for people to share stuff online. I'm comfy in my LJ place. I dislike the whole "Like" concept that has stemmed from Facebook--I want to let people know what I like! And especially having people tell me what they liked about something I did. In a few generations people aren't going to know how to communicate with each other properly. Everyone will just be giving a thumbs up.
There is *nothing* like getting a legitimate well-thought-out comment.
Oooo, canon or fanon! Like if Ianto is officially TW's archivist or if someone made it up and it stuck. It's so hard coming into a fandom in the middle, versus the beginning of a new show or movie. When the fandom is established everyone just kind of assumes stuff and it all gets confused. One thing I like about DC is because there's so many incarnations of everything and everyone (though I'm avoiding anything related to the reboot because I don't want to read fic that takes place without Lian Harper existing), to a certain extent almost anything goes. You still gotta be careful--I had to rewrite part of a story because I had gotten the month of Bruce Wayne's parents' deaths wrong, or maybe it was when he visits Crime Alley and puts down the rose. Something was wrong so I had to just set the story at a different time of year.
I'm glad we can talk! I haven't had a lot of good discussions lately; most of my friends aren't around a lot because of RL stuff or they're on Tumblr or AO3. Poor Dick... he'll never live it down. For some reason I prefer the work "cock" too; I think it's less coarse, which doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe because I associate it now with porny fic rather than vulgar terms/insults using "dick"? Mostly so long as it's not refered to as "member" or "hardness" I'm okay. :)
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I have stayed the heck away from Tumblr. I already spend too much time not doing what I should be doing! I'm not sure my brain can process yet another new way for people to share stuff online. I'm comfy in my LJ place. I dislike the whole "Like" concept that has stemmed from Facebook--I want to let people know what I like! And especially having people tell me what they liked about something I did. In a few generations people aren't going to know how to communicate with each other properly. Everyone will just be giving a thumbs up.
There is *nothing* like getting a legitimate well-thought-out comment.
Oooo, canon or fanon! Like if Ianto is officially TW's archivist or if someone made it up and it stuck. It's so hard coming into a fandom in the middle, versus the beginning of a new show or movie. When the fandom is established everyone just kind of assumes stuff and it all gets confused. One thing I like about DC is because there's so many incarnations of everything and everyone (though I'm avoiding anything related to the reboot because I don't want to read fic that takes place without Lian Harper existing), to a certain extent almost anything goes. You still gotta be careful--I had to rewrite part of a story because I had gotten the month of Bruce Wayne's parents' deaths wrong, or maybe it was when he visits Crime Alley and puts down the rose. Something was wrong so I had to just set the story at a different time of year.
I'm glad we can talk! I haven't had a lot of good discussions lately; most of my friends aren't around a lot because of RL stuff or they're on Tumblr or AO3. Poor Dick... he'll never live it down. For some reason I prefer the work "cock" too; I think it's less coarse, which doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe because I associate it now with porny fic rather than vulgar terms/insults using "dick"? Mostly so long as it's not refered to as "member" or "hardness" I'm okay. :)