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Friday, December 05, 2008
- Oh Anna, where are you?? -
In doing some housekeeping on the sidebar links, I discovered that Anna S. hasn't posted to her LiveJournal blog since December 2006. I'm hoping that she simply moved the blog somewhere else, but one of the last entries also mentions that she had uprooted herself from Seattle (and presumably from her job there as well), and was in San Francisco. And then . . . nothing. Except a few posts from people wondering where she had gotten to.
A reply to one of the earlier posts suggested that she might enjoy Bascon, a small con in San Francisco on the first weekend of November. I was there that year. Anna, did we cross paths and I never noticed? What has happened to you? We go back a long way, though not all of it was as good as it should have been (for which I blame myself), and I'm worried about you.
If anyone who reads this knows what has become of Anna, please please get in touch with me. I can try to reach her grandparents, but I don't know whether they're still living in the same place, and I can't remember her mother's last name.
ETA - crap, looks like the YACCS commenting no longer works. I'll have to switch over to Blogger's comment system. Until I have time to do that, I can be reached at liz at allslash.org.
A reply to one of the earlier posts suggested that she might enjoy Bascon, a small con in San Francisco on the first weekend of November. I was there that year. Anna, did we cross paths and I never noticed? What has happened to you? We go back a long way, though not all of it was as good as it should have been (for which I blame myself), and I'm worried about you.
If anyone who reads this knows what has become of Anna, please please get in touch with me. I can try to reach her grandparents, but I don't know whether they're still living in the same place, and I can't remember her mother's last name.
ETA - crap, looks like the YACCS commenting no longer works. I'll have to switch over to Blogger's comment system. Until I have time to do that, I can be reached at liz at allslash.org.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
- Still here . . . -
I just discovered that my slash blog had disappeared from the net. I have no idea how long it's been gone. When I transferred everything from the previous host, I thought I had transferred these files too, but evidently not. It's all back now, except for the first year's worth of entries that I lost a long time ago.
Unfortunately, I find that I don't have a lot to say about slash any more. The few slash mailing lists I'm on are quiet to the point of being dormant. Star Trek hasn't been the primary slash fandom for most people in a decade or more, and the programs people are slashing now don't appeal to me in the least. I moderate a slash group on Ravelry, and half the characters that the other members talk about are completely unfamiliar to me.
The original K/S fans used to speculate about whether it would die out when we got old. It didn't, of course--nothing with so powerful an appeal could completely disappear. But as society changed, the kinds of stories that were written changed as well. Slash is still there, but it's cloaked in contemporary mores and ideals, and in storylines and characterizations that often make no sense to me. In any real hospital, House would have been kicked off the staff a long time ago, just for example.
Buffy? Okay, that's pure fantasy. Anything goes. Same for all the other shows with supernatural themes (am I the only one who's getting tired of them?) But House, Office, um, can't think of the other one I wanted to use as an example, do they really, in any way, reflect today's society?
I suppose they're better than this season's crop of uber-violent cop and military programs. Wonder whether anyone is slashing those . . .
ETA - apparently they are. 24 is one of the shows listed on the new Archive of Our Own. I haven't looked to see what else might be there (in the same category, I mean), and it isn't as though I'm really up on that particular category anyway.
Unfortunately, I find that I don't have a lot to say about slash any more. The few slash mailing lists I'm on are quiet to the point of being dormant. Star Trek hasn't been the primary slash fandom for most people in a decade or more, and the programs people are slashing now don't appeal to me in the least. I moderate a slash group on Ravelry, and half the characters that the other members talk about are completely unfamiliar to me.
The original K/S fans used to speculate about whether it would die out when we got old. It didn't, of course--nothing with so powerful an appeal could completely disappear. But as society changed, the kinds of stories that were written changed as well. Slash is still there, but it's cloaked in contemporary mores and ideals, and in storylines and characterizations that often make no sense to me. In any real hospital, House would have been kicked off the staff a long time ago, just for example.
Buffy? Okay, that's pure fantasy. Anything goes. Same for all the other shows with supernatural themes (am I the only one who's getting tired of them?) But House, Office, um, can't think of the other one I wanted to use as an example, do they really, in any way, reflect today's society?
I suppose they're better than this season's crop of uber-violent cop and military programs. Wonder whether anyone is slashing those . . .
ETA - apparently they are. 24 is one of the shows listed on the new Archive of Our Own. I haven't looked to see what else might be there (in the same category, I mean), and it isn't as though I'm really up on that particular category anyway.