Poll and Miscellany

[thefourthvine]

Three things, almost entirely content free. (But one of them is a poll! There will be clicking, and that's always fun, right?)

I swear I will have actual content in this LJ again. Eventually. In the meantime -

1. Remember the poll? Um, this one? Thanks to everyone who took it, by the way, and I am slowly working my way through the comments, because they are meaty and thought-filled and fun. And I'm knee-deep in meta about it, but it's taken a strange turn. So I'm hoping that some of you will do my a favor, and run a poll like this one:
   
   [Poll #831564]
   
   Basically, I want you to ask your friends what archetype they think you are. (I've alphabetized the archetypes to make finding them easier.) And while you're here, please do pick mine; I'm truly curious to see if there's a difference between how I see myself and how others see me. (In this sense only. I'm not crazy.)
   
   Sadly, I don't have bribes to offer. But if you do run a poll like this, and you also drop me a link in the comments here, I will be forever grateful. And you will be furthering the cause of meta. (I know, I know, it's not precisely ever fan's dream, but - stay with me, here, okay?)
   
   
2. This is driving me insane, so - okay. I collect what I call genderswapped songs. Although, really, I should call them ungenderswapped songs - the song is covered by a singer of a different sex than the original one, but no gendered element of the song is changed. I have one song by Cam Clarke, from Inside Out, which is a whole CD of songs just like this. (The one I have is Son of a Preacher Man.) And I cannot find the whole CD anywhere. Does anyone have a copy of this? Or know where I can get a copy of this? I am experiencing the anguish of the thwarted collector, and it is not pretty.
   
   
3. This is more of a bonus item; I found it interesting. If any of you watch AMVs - and if you don't, why not? - you might want to take a look at this AMV-related survey.

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Oh, Katie, that is next week's meta. Do you always have to be ahead of the class?

But, yeah, one of the interesting things - well, I was trying to explain this to someone, and I got all metaphorical and started talking about how there are boundaries between being fannish and merely liking something, and being fannish and being our kind of fannish, but it's a blurry boundary, and there are no maps except one made by a blind geometrist, and basically it's just living proof the geopolitical applicability of Heisenberg.

Plus, I get the sense that some people don't want to admit they aren't in fandoms any more. Which I can understand - it's tough - but it adds another layer of uncertainty to the whole topic.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

I personally have one set of extra processes that get devoted to fannish pursuits, and they are not necessarily devoted to that--they can, for instance, be devoted to a new relationship, or a real-life issue, or whatever. (I suspect the latter is why I haven't been feeling very media-fannish recently, actually.) So I don't do multi-fannish, really.