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03.19.03 - 11:43 a.m.

ABC: Aragorn, Boromir, Comments

Since the comments are funky again, you can comment here if you like, and also read my long essay on Aragorn/Boromir and Aragorn and Boromir. *g*

~victoria



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[current mood: annoyed]
[current music: Captain Jack - Billy Joel]
[random quote: you're 21 and still your mother makes your bed]

~*~

03.19.03 - 10:26 a.m.

what a long strange trip it's been

I'm tired.

This is not surprising, as I was up late last night, chatting with Bethy and DD until 1am and then instead of going to bed like a smart person I instead started trawling for good Eowyn fic.

::shakes head::

You know, I'm trying to figure out why the whole LotR obsession blew up big this time, or bigger, than after FotR.

And obviously, the main reason is Eowyn. Because... Eowyn! Kicks! Ass! and always has.

So fic-wise, yes, that gives me an in that FotR didn't. I mean, as you can see, one Boromir (Boromir! I'm never gonna get over this, you realize) fic in a year isn't exactly me setting the world on fire.

I don't think I even *read* any LotR fic until after TTT came out, except for the VSD and Bagenders. And well... yeah. Exactly.

Part of it is yes, my disenchantment with Faramir, and the ratcheting up of the slashy vibes between Legolas and Aragorn (mmm... must write bathfic) and also the enouragement of fruity elf sex fanciers.

Because, come on! Eowyn deserves to get laid. Repeatedly! By very pretty men! ANd Elves. And hey, I'm not averse to Eowyn/Gimli if done well, though I think it'd be severe displacement and god... imagine the mindfuck - Eowyn, thinking she's in love with Aragorn, Gimli, in love with Legolas... coming together in a brief, awkward clinch, knowing that say two rooms over, Legolas and Aragorn are curled up and braiding each other's hair...

And of course, with TTT comes the anticipation for RotK, in which the F/E love story plays a major part, and well, how is *that* going to play out? Especially with this version of Faramir? Because again... all sorts of second-best, consolation prize issues, plus they may humanize Denethor, as they humanized Boromir, and won't *that* be a kick in the pants? Because we never do quite get Faramir's reaction to what Denethor does.

And then, of course, I'm still griping about how they set up Pippin as being a major player in Gandalf's fall (destined or not, Pippin doesn't know that) and then robbed us of a reunion between Galadriel Shared her Conditioner!Gandalf and Pippin.

I realize I'm rambling and I guess I'm just amazed - and I shouldn't be - at the hold LotR still has on me, far more than any of the other books I loved in childhood, except perhaps Little Women.

I've gotten a few Trixie Beldens and I've got a set of Narnia, and I still reread selected sections of the Belgariad when in need of comfort, but none of them still resonate like this.

The only thing that comes anywhere close is Star Wars, which obsession predates LotR by a good year or two in my life.

And if the prequels had in any way, shape or form been as highly enjoyable as the original trilogy was (even RotJ has its moments, though I can't recall many of them offhand ::snicker::), I'm sure I'd have fallen hard for TPM or AotC (though maybe not, as I was in the process of falling hard for XMM at that time).

And right now, there's kind of a vacuum building in my fannish heart. I mean, Buffy's ending, Angel's fate is up in the air and while things have been going pretty well the last few eps, I'm not that in love with it anymore. My SV phase is just that, though I wouldn't discount anything, given the way my mind works, and I'm feeling the XMM burnout after 2 1/2 years.

Which is the amount of time I usually spend on being all about one obsession.

Looking at my (online) fannish history, Homicide - fell in love with season five. Found reruns on Lifetime. Found ath in November 1997. Was active there until the end of the show.

Still love Homicide, but I don't obsess over it and want to discuss it with everyone endlessly. Am not driven to read and write fic and drive everyone around me nuts nattering on about Mikey and Timmy and what ever DID happen to Kay and why couldn't she have had more of a part in the movie?

Though yes, I'm very excited about the rumors of dvds coming out sometime this spring.

Then, May 1998. Becoming 1&2 sent me scurrying for atbvs.

Where I was an active regular, a top 10 poster more often than not, from about December 1998 through oh, summer of 2000.

I still love Buffy (and Angel), but again, it's like a comfortable old pair of boots. They've seen better days and they'll never be that perfect again, but they're not worn enough yet to throw out and you still wear 'em a lot. Just not with the same giddy thrill you used to have.

I read some BtVS/AtS fic (mostly JennyO and a handful of other authors, as well as Pete, Meg and Jen, of course) and as you maybe can tell, I occasionally get inspired to write some of it.

But long about summer 2000, on July 19 or thereabouts, I saw X-Men the Movie and fell headlong into that.

150 stories, 2 1/2 years and more crap than you could shake a stick at, it's not at all surprising I'm casting about for something else to latch onto.

And in a perfect synchronicity of timing and everything else, LotR appears on the horizon.

I wasn't *ready* to embrace a new fannish love last year, but now, bring it on.

I have no doubt that X2 will rekindle some of my XMM fervor, but time moves on and you can't really go back - you never do get that same white hot rush of love a second time, do you?

I don't know. Maybe you do.

But XMM has been lacking in quantities of good fic for ages, and I need something to fill that spot.

I never abandon a fandom. I just sort of drift into something new. And I think for at least as long as I can find something good to read, I'll probably do most of my reading in LotR.

Writing-wise, I don't know. I once said to my gusys, If I'm still writing L/R two years from now, shoot me. Because dude, there's only so many stories you can tell, and I've told a lot of 'em. I still have ones I want to finish, but unless the sequel rocks me back, I don't know.

But I've got the TTT extended edition dvds and then RotK (and the extended edition of that - have you heard? They've allegedly got 6 hours of RotK footage). I've got Order of the Phoenix coming out in June, and lord knows I'm hoping for some good Sirius and Remus plot/characterization there, because dammit, I want good SB/RL fic. Want it *bad*.

Anyhow, I think LotR just locked into my brain in that primal way of things that are dear in childhood and just keep getting better (and believe me, I love the books, but without the movies I doubt I'd have renewed that love because yeah, not easy to read) at the time when I was already casting about for my next big fannish love.

And how fucking weird is that? I just titled this "what a long strange trip it's been" and the radio kicked in with "Casey Jones" by the Dead.

Eerie.

~victoria



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[current mood: elegiac]
[current music: Casey Jones - the Grateful Dead]
[random quote: trouble with you is the trouble with me you've got two good eyes but you still don't see]

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