I mades you a fandom but I eated it.

[sab]

Okay, dammit. thirtysomefic. Live it learn it love it. Pimp it or I will probably kill you. Join it or I will make people write you weird e-mails. Write thirtysomething fic or I will have you boiled alive in a huge pot of water!

Okay, I take all that back. But seriously. SERIOUSLY. Even if you don't want to write thirtysomething fic, still join! Even if you don't join, pimp! Even if you don't know a thing about the show thirtysomething (ABC, 1987-1990), your friends MIGHT! So send them over! thirtysomefic!

There's even an inaugural fic challenge. You could write me drabbles. You could love me. You could help!

Look, dude, I started a community and will hopefully proceed to start a fandom and fic blitz! It worked for scrubsfic -- when I started that comm there were three Scrubs fics to the internet's name, and hardly ANY porn. And now, just look! There's like a million members and it's like it was always there, just born fully formed as a fandom. And we can do it AGAIN!

So, again. Thirtysomething. It was, like, this TV show. By the guys who later went on to make things like the movie Glory and the shows My So-Called Life and Once and Again. It won tons of awards and was pretty much sheer genius for the four years it was on, capturing the rise of yuppiedom in the face of AIDS, liberal politics, family, kids, queers, romance, advertising, art, marketing, photography, extramarital affairs, a house under constant renovation, cancer, death, anxiety, and therapy. It starred people who are A-listers in film and television today, and its entire cast has pretty much gone on to join tv show staffs as award winning directors and guest stars. There is nothing about thirtysomethign that is NOT AWESOME, except its lack of fannish presence.

So, thirtysomefic? No, for REALS, I will pay you MONEY.

I'm going to pimp the hell out of this thing all weekend. Please, you also do said?

Comments

[ratcreature]

I used to love Thirtysomething, though I'm not even sure whether I've seen all the episodes and I haven't watched them in order. See, when it first aired here, they only showed 35 episodes and in somewhat random order. Then later in the repeats I think they may have showed all eps, but at impossible times late at night (and maybe still out of order). And since it's not available to buy, I never managed to watch the whole as intended despite liking it a lot. :(

Also it's been so long since I've watched it (and no fandom to remind me of key plots either), that I'd just be lost with any fic even if I had seen the episodes it relates to. Unless it wasn't in fanfic style but included exposition. I mean, for example in Yuletide I started reading your story, and then I just got confused early on, because even though I remember the characters I couldn't place it or why Gary was dead in your story (I don't think I've seen that, maybe that happened late in the series ? I think I never managed to catch the final episodes after all), and I just couldn't get into it as fanfic.

[furies.livejournal.com]

i have never seen it though! despite trying to. you need to find a way for people to be able to watch the episodes - THEN i'll bet people will write oodles of fic. because like, mtv reran MSCL for so long, and we all had our tapes . . . same with xf, you know?

[ropo.livejournal.com]

I'd have to go back and watch, and I don't think I have any. OMG, Miles Drentell. Greatest character evar.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

1) The profile says "January 2007" for the inaugural challenge.

2) Clearly I need this television show in my life, stat. You had me at "same people who made My So-Called Life."

[scrubschick.livejournal.com]

scrubsfic? You mades a comm for moi? I'm touched! LOL

I only saw a few eps of Thirtysomething because I was in residency at the time and sleep, when not at work, was a priority. But, as you say, it was the hot show of its day. How can there not be dvds?? This makes no sense whatsoever! I don't know enough of the show to write anything for you but you go, girl! I love to watch a good pimping.

Also, a bazillion and two thanks for the Nanci Griffith music you shared and recc'd a few months back. I'm in love and am off to find more later today.

*hugs you*

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Oh man...after reading the yuletide story (which was amazing and wonderful and one of the few I'd have left glowing comments on had I been leaving comments at all) I had this intense resurgence of thirtysomething love.

And I feel like I totally want to rewatch..except...I kinda did, when it started airing on Bravo a couple of years ago. And I just couldn't deal. Like, I was a late teen, early 20s when the show first aired, and it was the eighties, and I was pretty naive, and their problems seemed seriously important and also somewhat foreign to me.

Living their lives now, I kept on wanting to yell at them to get a grip...like: I can watch Gossip Girl and not get intensely annoyed at their ridiculous problems because they're not me...But Gary and Hope and Michael..they *are* me.

Otoh, maybe another few years gone and not even being thirtysomething any more I could enjoy it again...because it was an awesome show and I've felt as strongly about few characters (outside of fandom) ever before or after...so...count me (though cautiously :)

[copracat]

Wow. When you say you're going to pimp the hell out of something, you aren't joking.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

You are my hero. I will be pimping.