You were 16 in 2006? Um. *hides walker and cane* *g*
I don't think I really started thinking about this sort of thing -- the fannishly specific situation, I mean, not gay issues in general -- prior to LJ, either. I just didn't really know other fans (fanfic-reading fans, I mean, as opposed to comics/book/SFF fans, which is what most of my fannish friends were). I knew what I liked to read, but I wasn't particularly analytic about it, and most of what I was reading was gen anyway, so shipping didn't enter into it very much.
I guess I could ramble a lot more, but I think in general, I ended up getting overly hung up on the concept of canonicity -- and was very much unaware of how my own heteronormativity blind spot influenced my concept of what constitutes canon-compliant fic.
My reading tastes are what they are, and I'll probably always prefer to read fic that's in line with my own view of the characters, but I do try hard not to imply that my own take on them is the "right" one, and to be open to other interpretations. Especially in those cases where, as you pointed out, it's the existence of real-life people that's being marginalized and ignored.
And that's an interesting view of Ronon/Keller. My own take on canon!Ronon is that he dislikes Rodney and is irritated by him, but I'm not sure if I could quite see him going that far to take him down a peg ... hmm. It'd be intriguing to write it that way. (hee! now my brain wants to do it as a bad Regency romance, where Ronon thinks he's only faking but the facade becomes real, and Keller thinks she wants Rodney but she's swept off her feet unexpectedly by Ronon's too-effective "fake" courting.)
And yeah, the show itself is pretty inconsistent! It's kind of fun to fanwank explanations for some of the more inexplicable stuff ... and it's funny how much of the accidental stuff in the show can be made to support some of the more obviously non-canonical theories -- like my pet fanwank that the Athosians are matriarchal, which is almost certainly not what the writers intended (I seriously doubt if they even know what "matriarchal" means) and yet, it's a disturbingly tight fit for most of the available evidence!
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Date: 2010-03-03 06:57 am (UTC)I don't think I really started thinking about this sort of thing -- the fannishly specific situation, I mean, not gay issues in general -- prior to LJ, either. I just didn't really know other fans (fanfic-reading fans, I mean, as opposed to comics/book/SFF fans, which is what most of my fannish friends were). I knew what I liked to read, but I wasn't particularly analytic about it, and most of what I was reading was gen anyway, so shipping didn't enter into it very much.
I guess I could ramble a lot more, but I think in general, I ended up getting overly hung up on the concept of canonicity -- and was very much unaware of how my own heteronormativity blind spot influenced my concept of what constitutes canon-compliant fic.
My reading tastes are what they are, and I'll probably always prefer to read fic that's in line with my own view of the characters, but I do try hard not to imply that my own take on them is the "right" one, and to be open to other interpretations. Especially in those cases where, as you pointed out, it's the existence of real-life people that's being marginalized and ignored.
And that's an interesting view of Ronon/Keller. My own take on canon!Ronon is that he dislikes Rodney and is irritated by him, but I'm not sure if I could quite see him going that far to take him down a peg ... hmm. It'd be intriguing to write it that way. (hee! now my brain wants to do it as a bad Regency romance, where Ronon thinks he's only faking but the facade becomes real, and Keller thinks she wants Rodney but she's swept off her feet unexpectedly by Ronon's too-effective "fake" courting.)
And yeah, the show itself is pretty inconsistent! It's kind of fun to fanwank explanations for some of the more inexplicable stuff ... and it's funny how much of the accidental stuff in the show can be made to support some of the more obviously non-canonical theories -- like my pet fanwank that the Athosians are matriarchal, which is almost certainly not what the writers intended (I seriously doubt if they even know what "matriarchal" means) and yet, it's a disturbingly tight fit for most of the available evidence!