This fandom confounds me so. Maybe it's just I was spoiled by the other fandoms I came from into this one. I mean, everyone has their shipping wars, but in RE, it seems shipping is the only point. There is a severe lack of gen adventures, or even gen adventures with shipping on the side. There are so many untold stories in the setting, and people focus on who's banging who (and meta posts on who has the right to bang who :|) I can't even bring myself to poke around on FFN for my fic fix, the sheer amount of toxicity (in authors notes and even profiles!) is unbelievable. This fandom's been around for 15 years, and yet the vast majority of it seems to be about 12 or so, based on behaviors. I really miss the RE mailing list on Yahoo. People disagreed about characters and shipping, but we were always civil to each other.
I GET THAT URGE TOO. FLIP ALL THE TABLES. (I must admit, I have a pet fic that I have been working on forever, and I'm not quite sure why I'm still working on it, because I'm pretty sure I'd get flamed to hell and back for posting it anywhere, because it's a genderflip. I've always seen fic as the perfect form to explore what ifs. Maybe I'm just desensitized, coming here after Stargate fandom. After all, Aliens Made Them Do It, Body Swaps, and other stock Sci-Fi tropes happened in cannon. At least there's cannon genderswap in RE in Dead Aim.) One on hand, I don't think it's too egotistical, after all, the common fandom defense is "if you can't find that kind of a story, why don't you write it yourself?" and hey, we are. Also: ARE YOU ME? Because after that last flame war on tumblr over RE pairings, I made a list of unpopular pairings and tried to write them. JUST BECAUSE I COULD.
I just... there have to be more sane RE fans somewhere. I've looked on lj, on forums, and on tumblr. I think it's a bit hard now, with everything being friendslocked, and the turn of the series towards more actiony. I know a lot of the people I used to talk with about it haven't really been interested in the fandom since RE4. I think it was more trading plagas for zombies, but who knows.
I think I'm going to post a rec list of fics, at some point. Just because there needs to be more fun times and less wank.
Revelations is a good carrot on a stick, for certain. I hope things go well, because I would love to squee with you over it.
I've downloaded evernote on to my phone, in the hopes I'd do something similar for organization, but my phone seems to hate it. I could try Google docs, but I'm a bit leery of stuff with Google's policy change. I'm trying to ween myself off their services, but gmail is just so much nicer than everything else out there.
Little details is a great community. I'm not a member myself, but I have it and several of it's tags bookmarked. I ment to mention it when we were discussing details in fics, but I forgot.
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on 2012-03-05 06:22 am (UTC)I GET THAT URGE TOO. FLIP ALL THE TABLES. (I must admit, I have a pet fic that I have been working on forever, and I'm not quite sure why I'm still working on it, because I'm pretty sure I'd get flamed to hell and back for posting it anywhere, because it's a genderflip. I've always seen fic as the perfect form to explore what ifs. Maybe I'm just desensitized, coming here after Stargate fandom. After all, Aliens Made Them Do It, Body Swaps, and other stock Sci-Fi tropes happened in cannon. At least there's cannon genderswap in RE in Dead Aim.) One on hand, I don't think it's too egotistical, after all, the common fandom defense is "if you can't find that kind of a story, why don't you write it yourself?" and hey, we are. Also: ARE YOU ME? Because after that last flame war on tumblr over RE pairings, I made a list of unpopular pairings and tried to write them. JUST BECAUSE I COULD.
I just... there have to be more sane RE fans somewhere. I've looked on lj, on forums, and on tumblr. I think it's a bit hard now, with everything being friendslocked, and the turn of the series towards more actiony. I know a lot of the people I used to talk with about it haven't really been interested in the fandom since RE4. I think it was more trading plagas for zombies, but who knows.
I think I'm going to post a rec list of fics, at some point. Just because there needs to be more fun times and less wank.
Revelations is a good carrot on a stick, for certain. I hope things go well, because I would love to squee with you over it.
I've downloaded evernote on to my phone, in the hopes I'd do something similar for organization, but my phone seems to hate it. I could try Google docs, but I'm a bit leery of stuff with Google's policy change. I'm trying to ween myself off their services, but gmail is just so much nicer than everything else out there.
Little details is a great community. I'm not a member myself, but I have it and several of it's tags bookmarked. I ment to mention it when we were discussing details in fics, but I forgot.