Shipper 4 Life
Oct. 8th, 2008 01:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sulwenAh, Kirk/Spock, how obvious you are! Wrath of Khan was on HBO tonight, and, as it's been years since I've seen it, it was almost like watching it for the first time. What a death scene! You will never be able to convince me that those two aren't in love. This is why I love fandom. Without fandom, things are good - good movie, good tv show, good book. With fandom, however, things become awesome. Everything is made that much better! And now I can go merrily off through the internet, reading fic. Come on, how cool is that?
ETA: I'm in the middle of this fic, and I'm reading an about-to-be-sex scene, and something struck me as worth noting. As much as I love reading sex, that's not what brings me the most joy in a fic. It's when the author gets the character exactly right. The image of Spock removing his boots and setting them "tidily against the wall" made me absolutely spasm with happiness at the sheer perfection of it. I suppose that's because I'm usually aware, at some level, that I'm reading a mere approximation of the character, a version at best. But sometimes, in the very best fic, that feeling goes away, and I'm reading the real version. That's the real Spock, right there, and having that sense makes what follows so, so much better. It's what sets truly great fanfiction away from the masses of mediocrity.
ETA: I'm in the middle of this fic, and I'm reading an about-to-be-sex scene, and something struck me as worth noting. As much as I love reading sex, that's not what brings me the most joy in a fic. It's when the author gets the character exactly right. The image of Spock removing his boots and setting them "tidily against the wall" made me absolutely spasm with happiness at the sheer perfection of it. I suppose that's because I'm usually aware, at some level, that I'm reading a mere approximation of the character, a version at best. But sometimes, in the very best fic, that feeling goes away, and I'm reading the real version. That's the real Spock, right there, and having that sense makes what follows so, so much better. It's what sets truly great fanfiction away from the masses of mediocrity.
