Dirge for a critter laid low by a Honda

I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the squirrel who picked the wrong moment to cross Range Road this morning. (Cut for the tender-hearted.)

( I'm really very sorry. )

Dirge for a critter laid low by a Honda

I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the squirrel who picked the wrong moment to cross Range Road this morning. (Cut for the tender-hearted.)

( I'm really very sorry. )

Five question fandom meme

Purloined from adventurat

1.) What fandom do you center on most?
To this point, "Once Upon a Time in Mexico".

2.) Do you contribute to it much (write fanfiction, draw fanart, participate in online communities and discussions)?
Not as much as I did initially. I still have ideas, and tremendous fondness for the characters, but there are so many *other* things I want to write.

3.) Do you think that such things are good or harmful to the fandom and why?
Sturgeon's Law says 90 percent of everything is crap, but that doesn't necessarily equate to being harmful. (There are plenty of cinemaphiles who thought OUaTiM the movie was crap, but that hasn't stopped the fans, me included. Crap is a little strong; but I'll admit it's flawed.) I've read some excruciatingly bad OUaTiM fic, but I could say the same for most fandoms, especially the well-populated ones. Writers have to build up their chops somewhere, though.

4.) Do you think its good or harmful for the original creator?
I think Robert Rodriguez might find it enlightening to see which details the fans have latched on to. There are also plotholes they've filled. And it certainly demonstrates that there's an audience for a sequel or two.

5.) Why do you like this fandom in particular?
I grew up watching spaghetti westerns with my dad, and Dirty Harry movies and anything with car chases, gunfights and explosions. When "Pulp Fiction" came out, I glomped; it was dark and twisted and funny and completely over the top. OUaTiM is a head-on collision between that gangster neo-noir and spaghetti western for the new millennium. Add that to the backstory from revenge-epic prequel "Desperado" and there are so many ways to bend and twist it. And the fact that it has Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp running around doesn't hurt, either....

Five question fandom meme

Purloined from adventurat

1.) What fandom do you center on most?
To this point, "Once Upon a Time in Mexico".

2.) Do you contribute to it much (write fanfiction, draw fanart, participate in online communities and discussions)?
Not as much as I did initially. I still have ideas, and tremendous fondness for the characters, but there are so many *other* things I want to write.

3.) Do you think that such things are good or harmful to the fandom and why?
Sturgeon's Law says 90 percent of everything is crap, but that doesn't necessarily equate to being harmful. (There are plenty of cinemaphiles who thought OUaTiM the movie was crap, but that hasn't stopped the fans, me included. Crap is a little strong; but I'll admit it's flawed.) I've read some excruciatingly bad OUaTiM fic, but I could say the same for most fandoms, especially the well-populated ones. Writers have to build up their chops somewhere, though.

4.) Do you think its good or harmful for the original creator?
I think Robert Rodriguez might find it enlightening to see which details the fans have latched on to. There are also plotholes they've filled. And it certainly demonstrates that there's an audience for a sequel or two.

5.) Why do you like this fandom in particular?
I grew up watching spaghetti westerns with my dad, and Dirty Harry movies and anything with car chases, gunfights and explosions. When "Pulp Fiction" came out, I glomped; it was dark and twisted and funny and completely over the top. OUaTiM is a head-on collision between that gangster neo-noir and spaghetti western for the new millennium. Add that to the backstory from revenge-epic prequel "Desperado" and there are so many ways to bend and twist it. And the fact that it has Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp running around doesn't hurt, either....