Random Nerdy Sunday Sundry

[author_by_night]

- Going to get The Cursed Child at some point. I'm more curious than excited; it's like I'm going to see a friend I haven't seen in a long time, but while part of me is excited, I've been following her on social media and some things I've seen make me a little wary. But I don't want to be, because my friend and I went through so much together.

Also, let's face it,  part of me would've preferred The Scottish Book. (For those of you who don't remember or weren't in fandom at the time, "The Scottish Book" - not its actual title - was bascally going to be an encyclopedia of Harry Potter info. Kind of like The Simillarion. I think. I have a depressiing pet theory that the Lexicon lawsuit in 2009 killed those plans, and Pottermore is pretty much what TSB was going to be.)

The good news is, unless she kills off one of the trio (which I can't imagne), I don't have anyone I'm attached to this time around. So my heart shouldn't be too broken. Unless I get attached to one of the Next Gen, and they're killed off? (NONE of this is spoilery, btw. Just pure speculation on my part.)

- Someone on an anon comm I follow asked what happened to filking. I have no idea, but I miss them. I also miss fanvids. I honestly think those were killed largely by YouTube taking them off, and similar sites following suit. Which I don't get, because I actually found some of my favorite songs through fanvids. So if anything, I always saw it as cheap advertising, not a copyright infringement. Oh well. In any case, I miss them, and I don't get soundtracks. (They're called something else. Fanlists? Something like that. I mean no offense if you love them, I'm just very old school.)

Filking... honestly, probably just one of those things that changed with a new generation of fandom. I sometimes think we expect the internet to be permanent when really, it's no more permanent than RL. We used to have a roller rink in town, but c. 2000, it wasn't all that useful anymore. Trends come and go.

(I still filk, although I went years without filking. I seem to have gone retro in that respect.)

Comments

[belleweather.livejournal.com]

I saw it (The Cursed Child) this weekend and it was AMAZING. It was everything I ever wanted out of canon, and I can tell you that no one dies. :)

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Well, that's some pretty high praise!

And yay to no one dying.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I have very little interest in picking up the book, myself. I have no idea of the spoilers revealed previously from the play were true or not, but regardless I don't consider it canon since the epilogue isn't canon for me.

Yeah, I'm honestly disappointed that after the whole Lexicon lawsuit debacle killed any further plans of her releasing that official encyclopedia, since I remember looking forward to that when she initially pitched the idea. Pottermore was only exciting when it first launched, but now it's just been incredibly meh, imho. Between that and her Twitter, her trying to expand the world or adding on has left much to be desired to me personally, sad to say.

[bookswam.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to pick up the book at some point, but I'm torn over what I've heard about it. There are some great things, but the plot sounds like a terrible fanfiction. I won't consider it canon, just an interpretation of what could have occurred.

Hopefully Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is good!

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Fanvids are dead? I have been watching them for a while. Like you said they are great ways to find new songs so on youtube at work I often pick a character from Marvel and type fanvid and just see what what came up.

I did notice a lot of the legacy ones got pulled, which is a shame. Which reminds me, at SOME POINT, I need to watch the ones from Escapade Con (and need to go back to it some day).

Soundtracks I kinda get in that it is fun to see what music other people think relate to me favorite character, but in the end, it is more or less song rec.

Though when I had the time to write fic, I found them useful.