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oh god, Outlander
Aug. 17th, 2014 06:10 pmSo they made a TV series of it and it's currently airing. I'm not watching, but omg, the memories!
See, Outlander was my introduction to fandom. And I started out, hilariously, on a bulletin board--ladies of Lallybroch, even though this had to be mid 2000's already. (It's still up, and going, I'm pretty sure.) They did (do?) quotes of the day, where they discussed the book quotes, sometimes thematically, but they also had a more general social board, jokes board, etc etc speculation, everything. It was mostly good and I just lurked. It's where I first found Celtic Woman--someone linked them!
But oh god, they hated Laoghaire. They also didn't like Frank Randall much either. Laoghaire is like sixteen, against Claire's twenty or thirty something, and both Jamie and Claire are a lot more experienced in the world and life than her. This part in particular bugs me, because the ladies on the forums were most definitely themselves older; most talked about their teenaged sons and daughters on the more social forums (DH, DS and DD automatically recall Lallybroch to me.) Laoghaire was stupid, yes, but young too. Frank--well, not blameless but his wife disappeared for years and then suddenly reappeared pregnant with a daughter who did not look anything like him, and then his wife said she had time-travelled three hundred years into the past and had married a man there--well, anyway. Now that I think about it, the board was not unsurprisingly skewed very heavily Jamie/Claire, and since I too shipped them it was fine. It was not a general discussion forum though.
I posted fic about Outlander. I'm so glad it's off the internet. Actually I think I lost the fic itself, but I think I can do without that phase in my life. The reason it's off the internet is because then Gabaldon had her thing with fanfiction (it was spectacular), and I'm pretty sure this is how I discovered the existence of fandom_wank.
I took down my fic and ragequit everything to do with her. I was also mad that I bought An Echo in the Bone just before the whole debacle; I very rarely buy books--one to two a year these days, less then--and only do so with books I couldn't wait for the library to get. A hardcover copy too.
See, Outlander was my introduction to fandom. And I started out, hilariously, on a bulletin board--ladies of Lallybroch, even though this had to be mid 2000's already. (It's still up, and going, I'm pretty sure.) They did (do?) quotes of the day, where they discussed the book quotes, sometimes thematically, but they also had a more general social board, jokes board, etc etc speculation, everything. It was mostly good and I just lurked. It's where I first found Celtic Woman--someone linked them!
But oh god, they hated Laoghaire. They also didn't like Frank Randall much either. Laoghaire is like sixteen, against Claire's twenty or thirty something, and both Jamie and Claire are a lot more experienced in the world and life than her. This part in particular bugs me, because the ladies on the forums were most definitely themselves older; most talked about their teenaged sons and daughters on the more social forums (DH, DS and DD automatically recall Lallybroch to me.) Laoghaire was stupid, yes, but young too. Frank--well, not blameless but his wife disappeared for years and then suddenly reappeared pregnant with a daughter who did not look anything like him, and then his wife said she had time-travelled three hundred years into the past and had married a man there--well, anyway. Now that I think about it, the board was not unsurprisingly skewed very heavily Jamie/Claire, and since I too shipped them it was fine. It was not a general discussion forum though.
I posted fic about Outlander. I'm so glad it's off the internet. Actually I think I lost the fic itself, but I think I can do without that phase in my life. The reason it's off the internet is because then Gabaldon had her thing with fanfiction (it was spectacular), and I'm pretty sure this is how I discovered the existence of fandom_wank.
I took down my fic and ragequit everything to do with her. I was also mad that I bought An Echo in the Bone just before the whole debacle; I very rarely buy books--one to two a year these days, less then--and only do so with books I couldn't wait for the library to get. A hardcover copy too.
