Date: 2008-01-19 12:44 Subject: What the hell, weather??! Security: Public Tags: life: in general

It's snowing in Atlanta.

ATLANTA.

You can't tell me ATLANA, GEORGIA, USA, isn't THE SOUTH.

SNOWING.

Yesterday when I was out looking at places I got disgustingly hot and sweaty and slightly smelly because I'd dressed for cold and it was a fricking beautiful day. It was like a spring day. And most folk I met who were running errands or tradesmen working, were, just like me, too warm. I didn't take off my jacket, mostly because of the bulk of carrying it around. But I had unbuttoned it and left it open after a bit when I realized it was not my imagination and the day had warmed up considerably.

All the snow from the day before, melted by 3pm.

And now it's snowing in Atlanta?

Weather.com says it's 'winter' actually outside again today. Gee whiz. It's no longer a wonder to me that people are falling all kinds of ill with this crazy weather.

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Date: 2008-01-19 17:00 Subject: Is Fusion Only For Cuisine? Security: Public Mood: confused Tags: fusion fan, thoughts on: things fannish, thoughts on: things to process

There's a lot going on in my head.

For the moment I'm focusing it on fannish thoughts. Or rather a confusing mishmash of fannish thoughts + role playing thoughts + unspecified thoughts.

dragovianknight is currently working on a Power Rangers AU reintroducing the Green Ranger (or a new Green Ranger). And I've found myself thinking of the experiences I wanted to have in certain rpgs I was a part of. And how they failed, usually miserably. And how sad it made me, because I was writing every day and excited, for the most part, about writing.

Is it fannish when you want to AU absolutely everything?

Had I in the past been trying to have a fannish experience among gamers / role players?

I mean aside from being fed up at certain cliquishness that seemed all about how many romantic storylines can we tell with each other in different universes to soothe...whatever in our souls...

I had a lot of friction with other people, some stemming from not wanting to copy-cat movie plots. I wanted organic motivation to the character I'd created and built history for - never mind that it was a comic book character and not 'original'. They were original to me.

So, was I trying to have Fannish AU Experiences in the wrong venue?

When I try to think of fanfiction recently, I realized yes I want closed fandoms. But...

But it's a big mess.

I don't want to write something original INSTEAD. I want to write about this FANDOM, just not the way it is, or originally came.

I mean...

Arrgh!

I get excited about the thought of putting X-Men Characters in the Harry Potter Universe.

I get excited about switched power universes and what if scenarios for comic book superheroes and Power Rangers and lots of things...

But I don't want to play a game to do it.

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