Introduce Yourselves, Pretty Please?

[rivkat]

I realize that I don't know as many of you all as I thought I did. Someday, perhaps after I grade my exams, I will read everybody's LJ, but for now I'd really love to get to know you better -- in a way that requires less effort on my part. So, how's about it? Also, should I review more books or fewer? What about music and movies? I'm unbudgeable on the fic, so those of you who aren't here for that are just going to have to skip it.

ETA: Specific questions about you:

What do you like to talk about?

I'm guessing we're mostly media fans, so what are your fandoms?

Would Superman take Batman, or would Batman beat Superman? (I have a very strong opinion on the latter.)

Comments

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

My gateway drug was X-Files - M/K, to be exact. I then acquired various other fandoms (including, but not limited to, Highlander, Once a Thief, Eroica, Utena, and Due South) and finally arrived at SV, where I found you, thought your name looked extremely familiar, and proceeded to be blown away by your stories. I had a look at your LJ and liked the fact that you rec, review, and preview, so here I am.

If you can get me to say anything (I'm a natural-born mailing-list and LJ lurker), I will talk about fanfic, general fannish matters, specific fandomish or crossoverish topics, non-fannish literature, history, and a lot of other things besides. :-)

As to whether Batman or Superman would win, I agree with the speakers before me: It would depend entirely on the situation. What are we talking about here? A fistfight? Then my money's on Superman. World domination? Then my money's on Batman.

With Lex in Superman's camp, I'm going with Superman all the way. This is simply because, while I'd back Batman in a fistfight against Lex, my money would be on Lex in pretty much any other situation.

Sylvia

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Ah, Lex. He is the complicating factor. I have the feeling that he's not as smart in comics canon as we'd like to believe, viz. the fact that his schemes get foiled even when he's a big, grown-up Lex, but in my megalomaniacal cosmology he is a genius with some occasional implementation problems.

I never got into M/K because I was pretty seriously into M&S -- theirloveissotwisted! Who needs slash when the het couple fuck themselves up so nicely? (See also, Farscape.) Bren Antrim's Krychek, Anna S's and Jane Mortimer's M/K stories, though, entertained me lots, and I was primed to react when I saw The Incredibly True Adventures of a Boy and an Alien in Love.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Hm. Not sure about Lex's canonical smartness - the problem is that he's the villain, so of course his schemes must be foiled. I see it as the nature of the thing rather than a comment on his intelligence. :-)

MSR is something I never got into - I never saw that relationship in a romantic light, fascinating, multi-layered and fucked-up though it indisputably was. To me, Scully always seemed possessed of the attitude of an older sister; even when she did occasionally show signs of non-sisterly interest, to me, it always seemed obvious that Mulder didn't want to take the relationship to a sexual level, perhaps because he didn't want to screw things up (pun not intended). And he *would* have screwed things up. I think he does have that much insight into his own psyche. :-)

CC doesn't agree with me, of course, but I have no compunctions about ignoring the mess that's been calling itself canon lately.

M/K is, of course, considerably further removed from canon than MSR, but I do think there is a canon basis. And it's great for people like me, who love a good disfunctional and twisted relationship. Not to mention that desperate passion between men who should be enemies really pushes all of my darkly romantic buttons.

And here I am in Smallville. :-) No surprise there.

Sylvia