Fandom News
I found this site where you can make your own newspaper and had a lot of fun making this fandom newspaper about books, writing, fan fiction and fandom in general. If you’re interested, you can check it out here.
WordPress again
In my last post, I mentioned my two new wordpress blogs. I might as well describe them in a bit more detail, since I intend to keep them closely connected to this blog.
One of them is mainly about veganism and animal rights but also animals, plants, gardening, nature human rights and more. I call that VeganLynx. The other contains quotes, images and links to articles about writing, books, fandom, history, languages and more. It’s called Crimson Corundum.
The difference between those two and this one (and my other homepages/blogs) is that on this one, I write original blog posts. On the two new ones I share things I find on the internet.
Fandom Survey/Meme
Choose your top three fandoms (in random order):
Robin Of Sherwood
X files
Dr Who
(It’s very hard to choose just three when there are so many…)
The first character you fell in love with:
Robin (the first Robin)
Mulder
The Doctor (Nine)
The character you never expected to love so much:
The Sheriff (He’s so funny.)
Scully: She’s really cool.
Hard to say, maybe Rory, I didn’t know what to expect at first.
The character you’re most like:
Marion.
Melissa Scully
Donna Noble, I guess. I’m not very much like anyone really, but maybe her.
The character you’d slap:
Will Scarlet. I just don’t like him.
Frohike or Langly (Or rather both of them)
Maybe Donna’s mother or Martha’s or maybe Rose’s – do I detect a pattern here?
Three favourite characters:
Robin, Robin and Guy of Gisburne.
Mulder, Krycek, Scully
The Doctor (of course), Jack Harkness and Donna Noble. If Jack doesn’t count as being from Dr Who, I’ll say Rory.
Your OTP:
Robin and Marion.
Mulder and Scully (predictable, I know)
Jack Harkness and pretty much anyone – or Amy and Rory.
Writing fan fiction again
I thought I was done with fan fiction – at least for a while – but I got inspired again and that was that. Though in the past couple of days I’ve been too tired to finish my last fan fic in the new fandom. Hopefully, I’ll feel up to it again soon.
I haven’t even blogged that much lately, so it’s great to be writing again. Hopefully it won’t be long before I’ve recharged my creative batteries so I can finish my novel.
Gender roles in fandoms and literature
I can imagine that homosexuals and lesbians find it hard to identify with characters in mainstream novels, tv series and movies. I find it hard to identify with the wimpy, half-naked girls that abound in movies. Even a physically strong female character like Buffy feels wrong, because of her lack of intelligence and her wimpyness. Tough and wimpy at the same time. What a strange combination. Veronica Mars is an excellent tv series, but the little blonde girl who plays the main character isn’t really someone I can identify with.
It would be really refreshing to see more tough female characters, especially ones that don’t degrade themselves by wearing skimpy clothes. I’m not saying female characters need to look like nuns. It would be quite enough if they simply wore ordinary, tight-fitting t-shirts, as long as it isn’t ridiculously low cut and as long as it covers the belly. Hipsters are an abomination.
What would really appeal to me is books, tv series and movies where men are being exploited just a little bit more. Not only in ‘gay’ series and movies, but also in ‘straight’ fandoms. You actually get the impression that gay people are negative to the straight world. I’d be the last one to claim it’s perfect, but I don’t think you need to go as far as to condemn heterosexuality. Would all these gay activists like it if their parents too had been gay? If so, what if they’d never had any kids? Isn’t there room for everyone?
Personally, I’m not proud of or ashamed of my sexual preference. I was born with it. No more am I proud or ashamed of being nearsighted, good at spelling or at learning languages. The only thing I am proud of is becoming a vegan and maybe also of my writing, not because I was born with the ability or tendency to make up stories, but simply because I’ve worked hard on improving on that trait. The same goes for my knowledge of languages. I wasn’t just born with the ability to pick up other languages, I have worked really hard to learn and practice the languages I’ve studied.