Fandom has taken over my life

[pslasher]

I'm struck lately by how much fandom has worked it's way into nearly every thought I have, and today is an amusing example of that.  I went to see a friend perform in her first performance with our state's Master Choral in a beautiful cathedral downtown.  The performance was really beautiful, everyone was clearly quite talented and well rehearsed, but during that two and a half hour span I had three separate instances of fannish thought, during an activity that has nothing to do with fandom in the least.

We got to the church way early so we could get a seat up front.  While waiting I thought I might entertain myself by reading a bit of a fic I started earlier on my iPhone, The People We Are, The Choices We Make bysyredronning(Star Trek), when I realized that reading fannish gay BDSM pr0n in the cathedral might be considered sacrilegious by everyone else there and that if I don't already have a ticket to Hell, that would surely get me one.  So I read the program a few times instead.

Then I thought aboutthalialunacywho is going to school to study Opera.  I thought it would be cool if I could see her perform and then we could hang out afterward.  I amused myself for a while thinking of how we could watch Trek and talk about Chris and Karl and she could tell me all about the new fics she's writing.  Sadly, we live on opposite sides of the country and she wasn't performing tonight.

One of the pieces that were performed was Dvorak's Mass in D (links to the other parts in the box to the right.).  It's performed in Latin, and it made me think of Written by the Victors by Speranza (SGA).  The fic is academic and quite geeky and brilliant and really unique and is a must read for all Stargate Atlantis fans.  But the relevant part is that Aesc made fanworks based on the Victer 'Verse (scroll down to the Ars Atlantinae section).  She wrote a poem about Sheppard called Se Narsaugir, translated it into a language she's creating (a la Tolkien), and Cate recorded herself chanting the aural version.  (The Iohannes Cash Poem was excellent too, and really amused me)  The language sounds vaguely like Latin, at least to my untrained ear, so I spent a while during the Dvorak performance imagining they were singing about John and Rodney and the Atlantis Uprising, and what they might be saying.  It was a really nice way to enjoy the beautiful music.

So apparently reading fic and watching vids every chance I get isn't enough, fandom also has to permeate my dreams and every waking thought I have.  Does anyone else have this problem? ;)

Comments

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

hahah I wish I had the ability to read fic in church. My phone is not that cool. :P

And yes omg! That would be so fun. :D:D Maybe someday. Then you can meet my husband, Chris Pine, and we can go out for drinks. ;)

And Dvorak! UNF! <3

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

One day you'll be a famous singer and you'll have all the phones you want! I read a lot of fic on my phone, and it ranks as probably the best gift I've ever gotten. As for actually reading in Church, that's not working for me. I'm not religious any more, but I was raised very strict Christian and I just couldn't get over the feeling of reading porn in the Church being *wrong*. Plus I was worried some nosy old woman would be peeking to see what was so interested and I'd traumatize her for the rest of her life, and I just couldn't be held responsible for that. ;)

It would be fun!! But we live on opposite coasts! If I'm ever in your neck of the woods I'll look you up, ok? Hehe, Chris! But what about Karl? You aren't working him in somehow?

<3 I loved the Dvorak too. It was the first time I'd heard it, but I've listened several times on YouTube.

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

Heh, I totally understand. I read a romance novel once in church and was like 'omg where's the lightning!' XB

And I meant when I'm rich and famous and I can FLY you out here. Doi. ;)

Karl, bless him, I have merely a fangirl crush on. I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers, if you know what I mean, but Chris I am pathetically obsessed with. XB

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

Haha, so I'm NOT the only one! That totally made me laugh, both your comment about the lightning and the fact that you'd *done* it!

I'll take you up on that!

Kick him out for eating crackers, HA! I totally have a pic response to that, coming up later!

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

:waits with great anticipation: :B

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

OK, sorry for the wait, I had to make a photobucket album and all that. Lets see if this works:

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

That gave me a MUCH-needed laugh. Thank you. <3

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

IKR! I STILL have a huge grin about it.