But this is the very definition of interesting! No, really, it is.
It's so nice that someone is actually amused by my RANDOM GEEKOUTS. I try to limit the hard science ones, but the biology kind of slips through because I have so. much. love. (Hi, you have no idea how close I am to writing up "Allopatric speciation, repeated bottleneck events, and genetic diversity: Even if Teyla wanted to have John's love child she couldn't (Also, everyone in the Pegasus Galaxy is their own uncle).")
And, actually, I would bet that more people recognize your name than mine; you write fabulous fic, and that's definitely something people remember. Ahahahah. That amuses me, actually. Your friend-of list is ten times larger than mine. You're an order of magnitude more popular, hon. *G* My flist just broke 100 this week. You're one of an elite group of intelligent reccers who are able to speak about why they love a story, and who actually recs GOOD stories all the time. There are some fandom specific reccers I've seen recently, and am always left with the feeling that the criteria is something along the lines of 'so, is it ___/____, and did it have TOO many typos?'
(Also, thank you ever so much for the nice part of that -- I'm trying to get better at taking compliments, I really am.)
Oooo. You should share your thinkiness on this topic ... the old structure of fandom gave rise to them, and now that fandom has become so loose and decentralized, there's just no way for someone to develop a big name. But I take it you don't agree?
Just remember, you asked and I suck at meta. *G* I'm of the opinion that we have two sorts of BNFs on LJ these days -- fandom specific ones, and the polyfannish. LJ by its very nature encourages cliqueing, but I tend to view the grouping as radial -- you have certain people around whom there is a higher concentration of other fans, and this results in their having giant friend-of lists. It's also sometimes indicated by response to both stories and regular journal entries -- goodness knows, quality of the work itself is not always an indicator of quality of writing.
I think the most basic indicator is general familiarity with the fan -- something that still exists, even in a more decentralized environment. We don't really have one or two top dogs, more loose grouping of people who are well-known for different reasons. People are BNFs for multiple reasons these days. There's the most basic 'writing great fic/running an archive mold,' but with LJ it's easier to be known for either of these withing a specific pairing. Meta BNFs are more exclusive to LJ, I think. People who have a lot to say about the source, who prod and ask questions, or exclaim popular things the loudest, become know. Iconage and/or wallpapers/manips are an entire other category.
I think the real BNFs these days are multifannish. People like yourself, shrift, astolat, rageprufrock, nestra, seperis -- all of whom may have a main fandom, but have worked with multiple others.
Me? I don't meta, I don't really ship, I write a hella lotta gen (which really isn't too popular these days), and while I'm panfannish, I tend not to stay in a single fandom for long enough to draw an audience, and my user name is not exactly one that inspires confidence. I'm just not a very fannish person, to be honest. My inability to stay in a fandom actually has roots in my writing style itself, as I've recently decided/discovered.
Well, you certainly don't strike me as stand-offish at all. You're quiet sometimes, but that's normal. Hee! Thank you. I'm just perpetually behind on LJ (school and extracurriculars and work, yay!), and I don't comment on people's journals anywhere near as much as I should. I rarely leave feedback, partially because I'm not that good at it, partially because I figure no one wants to hear from me. It's odd that I'm this retiring online -- you can ask sprat, I'm actually quite boisterous.
*regards the nine-page entry for 'wank' with horror* I just tend to go with 'self aggrandizement,' and leave all the British slang out of it. *G* Less bothersome when there's wank exploding all over the place.
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It's so nice that someone is actually amused by my RANDOM GEEKOUTS. I try to limit the hard science ones, but the biology kind of slips through because I have so. much. love. (Hi, you have no idea how close I am to writing up "Allopatric speciation, repeated bottleneck events, and genetic diversity: Even if Teyla wanted to have John's love child she couldn't (Also, everyone in the Pegasus Galaxy is their own uncle).")
And, actually, I would bet that more people recognize your name than mine; you write fabulous fic, and that's definitely something people remember.
Ahahahah. That amuses me, actually. Your friend-of list is ten times larger than mine. You're an order of magnitude more popular, hon. *G* My flist just broke 100 this week. You're one of an elite group of intelligent reccers who are able to speak about why they love a story, and who actually recs GOOD stories all the time. There are some fandom specific reccers I've seen recently, and am always left with the feeling that the criteria is something along the lines of 'so, is it ___/____, and did it have TOO many typos?'
(Also, thank you ever so much for the nice part of that -- I'm trying to get better at taking compliments, I really am.)
Oooo. You should share your thinkiness on this topic ... the old structure of fandom gave rise to them, and now that fandom has become so loose and decentralized, there's just no way for someone to develop a big name. But I take it you don't agree?
Just remember, you asked and I suck at meta. *G* I'm of the opinion that we have two sorts of BNFs on LJ these days -- fandom specific ones, and the polyfannish. LJ by its very nature encourages cliqueing, but I tend to view the grouping as radial -- you have certain people around whom there is a higher concentration of other fans, and this results in their having giant friend-of lists. It's also sometimes indicated by response to both stories and regular journal entries -- goodness knows, quality of the work itself is not always an indicator of quality of writing.
I think the most basic indicator is general familiarity with the fan -- something that still exists, even in a more decentralized environment. We don't really have one or two top dogs, more loose grouping of people who are well-known for different reasons. People are BNFs for multiple reasons these days. There's the most basic 'writing great fic/running an archive mold,' but with LJ it's easier to be known for either of these withing a specific pairing. Meta BNFs are more exclusive to LJ, I think. People who have a lot to say about the source, who prod and ask questions, or exclaim popular things the loudest, become know. Iconage and/or wallpapers/manips are an entire other category.
I think the real BNFs these days are multifannish. People like yourself,
Me? I don't meta, I don't really ship, I write a hella lotta gen (which really isn't too popular these days), and while I'm panfannish, I tend not to stay in a single fandom for long enough to draw an audience, and my user name is not exactly one that inspires confidence. I'm just not a very fannish person, to be honest. My inability to stay in a fandom actually has roots in my writing style itself, as I've recently decided/discovered.
Well, you certainly don't strike me as stand-offish at all. You're quiet sometimes, but that's normal.
Hee! Thank you. I'm just perpetually behind on LJ (school and extracurriculars and work, yay!), and I don't comment on people's journals anywhere near as much as I should. I rarely leave feedback, partially because I'm not that good at it, partially because I figure no one wants to hear from me. It's odd that I'm this retiring online -- you can ask
*regards the nine-page entry for 'wank' with horror*
I just tend to go with 'self aggrandizement,' and leave all the British slang out of it. *G* Less bothersome when there's wank exploding all over the place.