Young and Full of Fluff

Crack_van is shutting its doors, after ten years. I am so, so bummed I can't even tell you. The majority of the fic I've read during my entire time in fandom I've gotten through crack_van. And it's the majority of my flist feed at this point. Without crack_van, man...I don't know how much longer it'll be even worth it to check lj.

God I'm depressed.

Happy New Year, y'all! Instead of doing a real meme, I'm making up my own.

Year in Review
( New fandoms in 2006 )

( New things in fannish life in 2006 )

( Fannish resolutions for 2007 )

And that's all the navel-gazing I can handle at a time.

Joss Whedon killed the WB and UPN

Of course, if you read through the article, you see that what really killed them both was a new UPN exec deciding to go after the WB's core audience using Buffy as the starting point. Still, I think Joss should put this on his resume.

Aaaaaah! It's the end of the world!


SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CBS Corp. (CBS) (CBSA) and Time
Warner Co.'s (TWX) Warner Bros. Entertainment said Tuesday they plan to
cease operations of their respective television networks, UPN and the
WB, and form a network together called The CW.

It's official. Smallville is dead to me. I just removed myself from the ClarkLex yahoo group. I'm now not in any Smallville communities. I'll probably still watch season 5...someday... But I just have no interest in being in the fandom.

Most fandoms don't end with a bang (though those that do are quite spectacularly horrifying), they end with a whimper.

Smallville - dead fandom walking.

Why does a show that aired when I was a preteen and is as yet unavailable in any commercial release have annoying teenybopper fans? Where did they come from?

I've spent over a hundred dollars on eBay acquiring just eight episodes of seaQuest DSV. It's not a readily downloadable show either - I've looked. Though it's coming out on DVD in December, it has been almost completely unavailable for over a decade, and I admit, it wasn't that great of a show in the first place. I expect a fandom like that to be anemic, but I don't expect it to be overrun by annoying rabid fangirls.

Is Jonathon Brandis that potent?