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1. There's an actual community. And it provides feedback. Lots of feedback. This is rare on LJ, especially for a first or second fic in a fandom. Feedback! I can has it! (As opposed to CERTAIN FANDOMS which refuse to give me any feedback for my crack epic of cracky awesome. Except for Kaz, who is shiny.)
2. Crack. Crackcrackcrack. I think this stems from the fact that canon contains pretty much anything you can think of, except mostly the NC-17 stuff. But. Canon already has genderbending, zombies, clones, alternate universes, and enough plot devices to do whatever it is you do with a lot of plot devices. We mostly make pretty pretty people have sex. Sometimes they're zombies, or enchanted, or not the sex they were yesterday, or evil, or not exactly in the right timeline, or zapped by sex pollen, or more than one of the above, and it's not like we're exceeding the bounds of canon plausibility.
3. People who feel free to take canon and make it better. I really like being somewhere where people will try to keep some kind of consistent characterization, but beyond that, anything goes. All too often fandoms end up in the reverse situation--characterization optional, plot from a template. I hate. Hate lots. Comics fandom has a slightly depressing tendency to be better than canon, for various reasons related to the American comics medium and its inability to let characters go.
Also. I swear there was an also when I sat down here. And I'm pretty sure it didn't involve porn. Although I'm not sure why not. No, I haven't gotten enough sleep, why do you ask? But my essay is done, so it's all good. Caffeine for the win.
Oh. I remember. For any of you who may know what I'm talking about, I have a lot of trouble taking the bits of the Green Lantern story with Parallax seriously. I mean, all this bad stuff happened courtesy of a trigonometric concept? I hate to see what integrals could do to these guys. The PTB just opened an astronomy textbook to the glossary and picked a random word, didn't they? Stupidest. Name. Ever. Well, no. This is comics, after all. But most names don't make me go, "What does the inverse of the distance in parsecs have to do with anything, and why is it such a bad thing? Do the Guardians have something against the ability to calculate stellar distances?"
Yes, I had astronomy today. We learned about the parallax effect. It's stellar. (Sorry.)
2. Crack. Crackcrackcrack. I think this stems from the fact that canon contains pretty much anything you can think of, except mostly the NC-17 stuff. But. Canon already has genderbending, zombies, clones, alternate universes, and enough plot devices to do whatever it is you do with a lot of plot devices. We mostly make pretty pretty people have sex. Sometimes they're zombies, or enchanted, or not the sex they were yesterday, or evil, or not exactly in the right timeline, or zapped by sex pollen, or more than one of the above, and it's not like we're exceeding the bounds of canon plausibility.
3. People who feel free to take canon and make it better. I really like being somewhere where people will try to keep some kind of consistent characterization, but beyond that, anything goes. All too often fandoms end up in the reverse situation--characterization optional, plot from a template. I hate. Hate lots. Comics fandom has a slightly depressing tendency to be better than canon, for various reasons related to the American comics medium and its inability to let characters go.
Also. I swear there was an also when I sat down here. And I'm pretty sure it didn't involve porn. Although I'm not sure why not. No, I haven't gotten enough sleep, why do you ask? But my essay is done, so it's all good. Caffeine for the win.
Oh. I remember. For any of you who may know what I'm talking about, I have a lot of trouble taking the bits of the Green Lantern story with Parallax seriously. I mean, all this bad stuff happened courtesy of a trigonometric concept? I hate to see what integrals could do to these guys. The PTB just opened an astronomy textbook to the glossary and picked a random word, didn't they? Stupidest. Name. Ever. Well, no. This is comics, after all. But most names don't make me go, "What does the inverse of the distance in parsecs have to do with anything, and why is it such a bad thing? Do the Guardians have something against the ability to calculate stellar distances?"
Yes, I had astronomy today. We learned about the parallax effect. It's stellar. (Sorry.)