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Over the weekend I watched five episodes of Baccano! with T, and the entire first episode where the Vice-President and Carole argue over the appropriate narrative angle with which to begin the series struck me as an exact metaphor for why I keep failing at posting about bandom. XD; (Can I call it that? Some months ago I had a conversation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
subterrain and kickthebeat re: what we decided to call Pitchforkslash. "It" should probably be called NMEslash. Time to find a nice bridge to throw oneself off.) In Baccano!, of course, the narrative angle is the series - or nearly; there is also gunplay - but it's hardly the only story where the form of the content follows the... Put it another way. People have meta-ed over how anime/manga fanfics have tended shorter with time, until drabbles and flashfics became the norm rather than the exception. One theory I've seen mooted is that this reflects the fragmentation of the fanbase: everyone is following several series at once, and when the new anime season starts it all gets ditched for the next big thing. Except even consensus on said next big thing is hard to come by. Thus concision, precision, and rapid turnaround become key in the quest for audience, much as they are to fansubbing groups.
The ur-form of fanfiction in Libs fandom, meanwhile, is the meticulously constructed multi-part AU where the end is left hanging. I don't mean the usual sort of WIP where the ficcer loses steam halfway through, I mean it'd literally be missing the last chapter. XD; Or else the plot unravels rather than resolves, at a point of terminal ambivalence. From where I stand it looks like collective neurosis. So much for metaphor.
Did I mention the kittens? >_>
Having talked a bit about the anime I've been watching lately (SEE WHAT I DID THERE), I'm going to post some mp3s, because after all that's the easiest road out of here. XD;
( Some mp3s, natch )
( And an illustration to go along with - it's hard to remember to do this, I don't know how people who post photos with every blog entry do it XD; )
[1] To wit, FSTing themselves. In the future. I like to think I'm good at FSTs but Barât/Doherty FILL ME WITH AWE. Sororial unit referred to this effect as "the Libertines musical"... at least, until someone hired them to write an actual musical. About a band. A heartbreaking work of staggering meta. orz
[2] That and Babyshambles fans are crazy. Srsly. They're, like, the Harmonians of UK indie.
Over the weekend I watched five episodes of Baccano! with T, and the entire first episode where the Vice-President and Carole argue over the appropriate narrative angle with which to begin the series struck me as an exact metaphor for why I keep failing at posting about bandom. XD; (Can I call it that? Some months ago I had a conversation with
subterrain and kickthebeat re: what we decided to call Pitchforkslash. "It" should probably be called NMEslash. Time to find a nice bridge to throw oneself off.) In Baccano!, of course, the narrative angle is the series - or nearly; there is also gunplay - but it's hardly the only story where the form of the content follows the... Put it another way. People have meta-ed over how anime/manga fanfics have tended shorter with time, until drabbles and flashfics became the norm rather than the exception. One theory I've seen mooted is that this reflects the fragmentation of the fanbase: everyone is following several series at once, and when the new anime season starts it all gets ditched for the next big thing. Except even consensus on said next big thing is hard to come by. Thus concision, precision, and rapid turnaround become key in the quest for audience, much as they are to fansubbing groups.The ur-form of fanfiction in Libs fandom, meanwhile, is the meticulously constructed multi-part AU where the end is left hanging. I don't mean the usual sort of WIP where the ficcer loses steam halfway through, I mean it'd literally be missing the last chapter. XD; Or else the plot unravels rather than resolves, at a point of terminal ambivalence. From where I stand it looks like collective neurosis. So much for metaphor.
Did I mention the kittens? >_>
Having talked a bit about the anime I've been watching lately (SEE WHAT I DID THERE), I'm going to post some mp3s, because after all that's the easiest road out of here. XD;
( Some mp3s, natch )
( And an illustration to go along with - it's hard to remember to do this, I don't know how people who post photos with every blog entry do it XD; )
[1] To wit, FSTing themselves. In the future. I like to think I'm good at FSTs but Barât/Doherty FILL ME WITH AWE. Sororial unit referred to this effect as "the Libertines musical"... at least, until someone hired them to write an actual musical. About a band. A heartbreaking work of staggering meta. orz
[2] That and Babyshambles fans are crazy. Srsly. They're, like, the Harmonians of UK indie.
