By the numbers

13: Number of doujinshi bought at Otakon
2: Anthologies bought at Otakon
2: Number of doujinshi won on ebay last week
10: Doujinshi bought from Sumire

Yet I am insanely jealous of Casey because she got Cloudy Blood, by the lovely lovely Pannya Soup. Why? That's right, boyz `n girls, because I am a doujinshi whore.

When fandoms die

The other day I realized that I am really, truly over my first fandom love, the X-Files. On an excited rec from someone, I read Karen Rasch's latest (and last) XF fic. Now, Karen Rasch is a fine writer, but I read it, shrugged and went "Eh. Angsty partner amnesia, naughty bad Krycek, harrowing childbirth, lie-affirming joyful schmoopy ending. Been done, seen it, bored now." It just seemed so...derivative. Not necessarily because of the writing, just because it seems to have been done to death (in my mind at least). It also reminded me of how freaking depressing the show became, and I re-realized that I no longer give a crap whether M&S end up happy together or not. Yes, I know it's a moot point since the series has concluded, but logic has no place here.

I certainly don't regret being a `phile. The fandom introduced me to the net and fic and so many really cool people (OBSSE, #xf-r, and the HoE folks are just a start) that I could never look back and go "Damn, I sure wasted my time with that!" Besides, while I was an active fan I had a lot of fun. I've just moved on. Though I do think Chris Carter is an obtuse ass, I don't really get mad at him for pissing on the show the way he did. Maybe I would have moved on, anyways. Who knows?

This also reminds me why I like being an otaku. Most anime series aren't sprawling, ongoing sagas anyways, so it's difficult to be an uberfan of just one series, and even if you are there's always something else interesting and fun. People have many different preferences and styles they like, but even a Card Captor Sakura fan and a Weiß Kreuz fan have a sort of commonality that a Star Trek fan and a Farscape fan don't necessarily share. I'm not saying anime fans are the superior geeks or anything, but I do enjoy the people more as a fandom.

Speaking of fandoms....to quote the ever-delightful angiihimemiya, "I am a convention whore!" I've been to two of these things, one big, one little, and I absolutely cannot wait until the next one. It galls me to know that a whole semester lies between me and Ohayocon. Oh, well, maybe they'll manage to book Dorothy Melendrez by then. That would be highly ferior. Casey and I could flaunt our nonexistent shrine and get her to recite lines from the slutfic into my mini-recorder. And Ohayocon would have pocky, too, for it's not an elitist snob con like Ohayocon. *rolls eyes* Damn rules. They had CD piracy going on despite the guidelines, why couldn't there be pocky piracy, too?

By the by, work today was not as boring as I had expected. Check that; it was just as boring, but I found that if I run out of things to do and use a memo pad, I can work on the slutfic with minor qualms. Huzzah.