Panels Redux (the Quiet Voices are Louder on Paper Remix)

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

I for one was fascinated by the depth and breadth of ideas on display at g/t, and would like to hear more. This is the first time I'm trying something like this, so we'll see if it works.

I'm going to repost some (as many as I can remember) of the prompt questions as top level comments to this post. Anyone who wants to contribute, please reply to the appropriate comment. If you have a question of your own, please follow the format I've used and add a top level comment of your own. I'll then add it to the master list.

Rules: fairly standard, in so far as respect and tolerance for diversity of opinion. With one addition: we are a community so we should be just that tiny bit gentler/more careful to be sure we remain the stunning bunch of intelligent, thoughtful women we are. <3 <3 <3

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Re: 11. Which came first, the fandom or the...

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

... I think the only tv shows I have watched before reading any fic are NCIS and CSI. I'm just incredibly bad at focusing through an entire episode of something without getting hideously embarrassed, let alone an entire season or series. And I tend not to read fic set in the worlds of the shows I regularly watch (so I don't read much NCIS fic, for instance, despite it being the only show EVER that I have managed to follow several seasons of on TV).

IDK. Dialogue on TV is more natural than dialogue in fic, and often the TV shows have a different sense of humour. But fic is written for a smaller audience, and I think that shows.

Slash fandom is its own genre and has its own rules and tropes, and those rules and tropes are in some ways wider than those shown in canon (so we get kink memes and curtain!fic and kid!fic and a million AUs and h/c et cetera) and in others much narrower (there's not a lot of slapstick, for instance, and even in ensemble-based shows there doesn't tend to be a lot of truly ensemble fic). And, I guess, I'm a lot more comfortable with the Rules of Slash than I am with the Rules of Television.