possibly in denial

[parthenia]

Bad Thing Managed to get the sales time wrong for the Raconteurs tickets and they had already sold out by the time I realised. Bah. Memo to self: do not believe the emails from the band! The mighty Seetickets usually puts them on an hour earlier!

Still. There are some good things going on.

For example: I am going to see the Fratellis tonight \o/ who are playing one of the Teenager Cancer Trust Albert Hall gigs.

Why I am not a fan really I have been thinking a lot lately about how I'm not really a proper fan like lots of my lj f-list, because I'm not really that into shows and don't really read or write fanfic. I mostly feel way out on the edge somewhere compared to many of you.

So, I stayed up late last night doing some work, and in between running data analyses, I pottered about on LJ, and the BBC, and spend a very happy hour or two digging up 150-comment arguments about the portrayal of Owen/Gwen/yournamehere on Torchwood, and rumours about Series 3, looking at actor sites, reading rumours about the interplay between Torchwood/Dr Who/The Sarah Jane Adventures; and giggling about threads discussing the awesomeness of Torchwood/Primeval crossovers...

...and I realised, tragically, that I was in my fannish happy place.

Is this what you lot call being a fanboy? Because I do love to pooter around in the minutiae of the plot, and develop my proper opinion on Russell T Davies. It's not even that I uncritically love either show - Dr Who has been very lame of late, Torchwood has jagged great plotholes and can be borderline diabolical; but, for whatever reason, I like those worlds. I don't think I would ever want to read Dr Who fanfic, but I might read the odd bit of Torchwood. Some new icons would be nice, too.

I'm not an extreme fan, though, gosh no. Wouldn't catch me at any of those weird convention thingies or buying wee statuettes. I'm just, you know, interested.

she bought Dr Who Magazine from Tesco yesterday
she already has a radio-controlled toy Dalek in her office
she wanted to put a Myfanwy toy on her son's cake
she reads the BBC America Captain's blog

It's just a thing.

Comments

[anthimaeria.livejournal.com]

I feel kind of funny about going to one as well, to be honest. But a lot of people have told me that the HP cons are more about meeting people on your flist than about the cheesier aspects of fan culture. I won't be putting on a costume or playing mock Quidditch.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally it's about the people and the boylove. I'm glad to know I'll get to meet you, for example! I'll introduce you to the senior component of fandom, who are all wonderful, terrific, interesting people (much like our LJ hostess here).

[anthimaeria.livejournal.com]

I'm excited to meet you too! The majority of fandom people I've met to date have been well worth knowing.