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Buffycon was really nice. My panel was not big (it was me and, I think, eight people in the audience), but I had fun. And I got to meet ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bonibaru, amesville and anamchara, who were wonderful fun, as well as many other people listed by bonibaru. We had lunch with thete1, who is much less scary than I imagined, and much taken with Robin Sachs. Myself, I try not to pay attention to the actors, because it detracts from my pureasthedrivensmut relationship with the characters (see 3.C below), but frankly I could understand the attraction with Mr. Sachs, who was immensely charming and catty. I also bought S1 of Stargate, because why not? Other than that I need a new fandom like I need another hole in the head.
Oh, and I promisedbonibaru any story she wanted if she'd make me my Lex vid. She's responsible for "Switch," so this might work out well for all concerned.
Questions fromvivwiley
1. If you weren't a lawyer/law professor, what other profession might you have picked?
Gah! I think my DNA spells out "J.D." Is catatonic schizophrenia an answer? My sister is making a living as a freelance writer, which I might try if the law thing didn't work out. When I was young, I wanted to be a bus driver. Not a city bus, but a Greyhound. Lots of time on the open road. I miss highway driving. I had no idea that "bus driver" was a common aspiration, but it seems to be.
2. What's the best and worst aspects of living in NYC?
Best: Twenty-four hour gym. My law school.
Worst: Crowds, noise, crowds, dirt, crowds. No car – you remember me driving down to sell my car as part of my visit with you andmustangsally78, right? - and terrible driving conditions if I did have one (see above). Absence of trees and, especially, the daffodils and forsythia with which Washington is so abundantly blessed. Distance from family.
3. Why Smallville?
You know, I just read a book on fan cultures, one of many waiting on a review in this space, part of which remarked on the gap in the fan conversion narrative at precisely this point – why Star Trek? Why U2? "Something just clicked" is unhelpful, but possibly the most accurate answer. Other answers, in no particular order:
A. I don't know.
B. The terrible pressure of fate that weighs on Clark and Lex, a fate they're going to make with their own choices but (Karl Marx again) not under circumstances of their own choosing. The juicy tragic Greek-antagonist-meets-Christian-heroness of it all. My bulletproof kink for one character sacrificing his/her deepest self so that another one can live/love/do what destiny demands, which is how I see Clark & Lex going – Lex's first murder, after all, was for Clark. Jane Mortimer's The Sin-Eater got me into XF fandom, and it's been self-immolation all the way down for me since then. (The Jane/SV/bulletproof kink connection is, of course, overdetermined.)
C. Fire bad, Lex pretty. Seriously, though, socially isolated geniuses are my fannish heroin. Or heroine, in the case of Scully. So, let's make that pretty, redheaded, socially isolated geniuses. I don't know why I never fell as hard for Willow; by all rights, I should have. John Crichton, also, I like despite his unfortunate hair color, but I feel no need to torture him.
D. Omar's recaps and the fiction being written by authors I knew from other fandoms.
4. Where do you get all that angst?
Parsippany. (Plots, by contrast, come from Schenectady.)
5. (Borrowing from someone else). If you had any author, living or dead, at your command, what novel, story, play, thing would have him/her create?
Yikes. I might have Pat Conroy write the sequel to Gone With the Wind he wanted to write, before his negotiations with the Mitchell Estate broke down over the estate's demand that he not mention homosexuality or miscegnation in his sequel. I might have Shakespeare go through the various versions of Hamlet and create the definitive text. Or for more gut-level satisfaction, I might sit Laurell Hamilton down and demand that she write a book in which Anita deals with her near-sociopathy. Edward is optional (though encouraged), as is sex (neither encouraged nor discouraged), but if Anita has sex she can't describe it. Or the outfits, except once. Or I might have Heinlein write another juvenile starring Kip and Peewee from Have Space Suit, Will Travel.
So riddle me this,vivwiley: why Farscape?
Anyone else want to ask questions?
bonibaru, amesville and anamchara, who were wonderful fun, as well as many other people listed by bonibaru. We had lunch with thete1, who is much less scary than I imagined, and much taken with Robin Sachs. Myself, I try not to pay attention to the actors, because it detracts from my pureasthedrivensmut relationship with the characters (see 3.C below), but frankly I could understand the attraction with Mr. Sachs, who was immensely charming and catty. I also bought S1 of Stargate, because why not? Other than that I need a new fandom like I need another hole in the head.Oh, and I promised
bonibaru any story she wanted if she'd make me my Lex vid. She's responsible for "Switch," so this might work out well for all concerned.Questions from
vivwiley1. If you weren't a lawyer/law professor, what other profession might you have picked?
Gah! I think my DNA spells out "J.D." Is catatonic schizophrenia an answer? My sister is making a living as a freelance writer, which I might try if the law thing didn't work out. When I was young, I wanted to be a bus driver. Not a city bus, but a Greyhound. Lots of time on the open road. I miss highway driving. I had no idea that "bus driver" was a common aspiration, but it seems to be.
2. What's the best and worst aspects of living in NYC?
Best: Twenty-four hour gym. My law school.
Worst: Crowds, noise, crowds, dirt, crowds. No car – you remember me driving down to sell my car as part of my visit with you and
mustangsally78, right? - and terrible driving conditions if I did have one (see above). Absence of trees and, especially, the daffodils and forsythia with which Washington is so abundantly blessed. Distance from family.3. Why Smallville?
You know, I just read a book on fan cultures, one of many waiting on a review in this space, part of which remarked on the gap in the fan conversion narrative at precisely this point – why Star Trek? Why U2? "Something just clicked" is unhelpful, but possibly the most accurate answer. Other answers, in no particular order:
A. I don't know.
B. The terrible pressure of fate that weighs on Clark and Lex, a fate they're going to make with their own choices but (Karl Marx again) not under circumstances of their own choosing. The juicy tragic Greek-antagonist-meets-Christian-heroness of it all. My bulletproof kink for one character sacrificing his/her deepest self so that another one can live/love/do what destiny demands, which is how I see Clark & Lex going – Lex's first murder, after all, was for Clark. Jane Mortimer's The Sin-Eater got me into XF fandom, and it's been self-immolation all the way down for me since then. (The Jane/SV/bulletproof kink connection is, of course, overdetermined.)
C. Fire bad, Lex pretty. Seriously, though, socially isolated geniuses are my fannish heroin. Or heroine, in the case of Scully. So, let's make that pretty, redheaded, socially isolated geniuses. I don't know why I never fell as hard for Willow; by all rights, I should have. John Crichton, also, I like despite his unfortunate hair color, but I feel no need to torture him.
D. Omar's recaps and the fiction being written by authors I knew from other fandoms.
4. Where do you get all that angst?
Parsippany. (Plots, by contrast, come from Schenectady.)
5. (Borrowing from someone else). If you had any author, living or dead, at your command, what novel, story, play, thing would have him/her create?
Yikes. I might have Pat Conroy write the sequel to Gone With the Wind he wanted to write, before his negotiations with the Mitchell Estate broke down over the estate's demand that he not mention homosexuality or miscegnation in his sequel. I might have Shakespeare go through the various versions of Hamlet and create the definitive text. Or for more gut-level satisfaction, I might sit Laurell Hamilton down and demand that she write a book in which Anita deals with her near-sociopathy. Edward is optional (though encouraged), as is sex (neither encouraged nor discouraged), but if Anita has sex she can't describe it. Or the outfits, except once. Or I might have Heinlein write another juvenile starring Kip and Peewee from Have Space Suit, Will Travel.
So riddle me this,
vivwiley: why Farscape?Anyone else want to ask questions?
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