at swim, two memes

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Gotta hop over to t_m, gotta feedback selenak on her Five Things (link forthcoming once she's got 'em all living together in one place), gotta fight with eBay, gotta finish this outline, gotta write, gotta post about Buffy, gotta harangue wax_jism about spies, gotta talk about writing about expatriatism, gotta talk about reading about expatriatism, want to talk about a sense of place.

Instead, At Swim, Two Memes:

elke_tanzer's meme:



In your own LJ, list five of your favorite fannish LJ communities and why you love them, and include at least one which is fairly obscure. Next, if you mod any fannish LJ communities yourself, list them. Lastly, comment here with a link back to the post where you complete this meme.

Mostly first you all know I've got multi_pass, which is a multifannish icon-making community full of really highly adorable people with icon-making commitment that runs the spectrum from "hello, I have MS Paint but boy howdy is Jude Law ever hot" to "hello, I've made a hundred new brushes, here they are, zipped, in my latest tutorial." I happen to think we're really awesome over there, so you should definitely come play.

Then.

camp_toccoa is the Band of Brothers slash community, and a better bunch of girls I haven't found. I came in as a definite outsider, as the gang there (a group of college age astonishingly talented DeviantArt types, as a rule, with a disproportionate amount of denizens from Scandinavia though I don't know why that is exactly -- perhaps someone can enlighten me?) had been hanging out for a while, lusting after the pretty boys of BoB. But they took to me right quick and I swear, they're an awesome group. They make gorgeous fanart and icons, write terrific fic, and in general engage in intelligent, sensitive and fannish discourse about the miniseries, the actors, the soldiers, WWII, American culture of the 1940s and hot boysex.

theatrical_muse, for those who don't know, is a community where LJers roleplay as their favorite characters/actors/Wilson the Volleyball/the One Ring/demigods/actual gods/inanimate objects. Honestly, a good portion of these LJs are total crap, but then, a good portion of 'em aren't, and the writers behind the characters/actors/Rings are spot-on, snarky, and wicked. PLUS, it's got the bonus of being so multifannish that you get Crais and Xena running errands for Londo Mollari, Legolas and Orlando Bloom fighting with one another, or Draco Malfoy, I swear to god, having an affair with Knight Rider's KITT car.

Don't know if there's anyone here who hasn't visited the_rec_room yet, but since it's built in such a way that it functions best if everyone stays up to date, I'll pimp again. It's the community built for answering questions like, "I remember reading this Mulder/Krycek story about eight years ago, I don't know the title or the author, but they were shopping for drapery -- help?" or questions like, "where's the good Paris/Chakotay fic?" It's also proven useful for locating fic in extremely obscure fandoms ("has anyone seen, or heard of fic for the movie Heathers?"), and for locating stories long-lost or gone from the 'net entirely ("I read this Blake's 7 story in a 'zine in 1989, does anyone remember it?"). Point being, if you haven't joined, you should do so as a service to the fannish community, and check in pretty frequently, so's we can help each other out.

contrelamontre is a multifannish drabbling community with the added bonus of being All Slash, All The Time. Every week gets a challenge element, and the members are encouraged to improv -- for no longer than forty-five minutes -- on the week's topic. Mostly the results are solidly average, but every now and again something truly brilliant appears. And plus it's fun.

screendoor is the alt-country LJ comm which, in concert with antifolk, is both informative and fun, if not terrifically busy. screendoor has more traffic than antifolk, but both cover the general alt-country musical genre and I've encountered some good new artists I might not have discovered otherwise. There's discussion, too, though it's rare, set lists, tour info and lyrics, and, yeah. A good place to hear about new artists emerging on the alt-country scene.

ETA! Not a community proper, but. experiment627 arrived on the scene several days ago with a new LJ that's assembled the mother of all Friends' lists for your one-stop shopping needs. The power behind the list is as yet anonymous (though I have my suspicions...*eg*), but not nearly as icky/insidious/in-jokey as anonymous_ljer (which gives me the willies). And at the end of the day experiment627's done the fannish community a big service by assembling this Friends' list, which I've now taken to checking every day since there's some great folks on. So. My gift to you, her gift to us.





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Comments

[intl-princess.livejournal.com]

gotta talk about writing about expatriatism, gotta talk about reading about expatriatism, want to talk about a sense of place.

oh, please come find me when you do. this has my post-colonial self written all over it.

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

gotta talk about writing about expatriatism, gotta talk about reading about expatriatism, want to talk about a sense of place

Dude, yes. My research paper in lit is on exile & literature, actually. Oh, and check out Words Without Borders (.org)... they have a great little article called Homeland as Exile, Exile as Homeland or some such.

*mournful*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

There is a lonely, uncommented story out there now...