Fangasmic

I have an addiction. Not just my love of SCIENCE, or my obvious and painful relationship with Delicious Bookmarks, but something even more shameful. It's _finders coms. You know, when you get a shiny new fandom you immediately join the community for your favourite pairing, maybe the newsletter, and of course, the fic finding community.

( I make up all sorts of reasons for my membership in _finders coms, but they're all only partly true. )

Guys, all of my favourite shows are wrapping up, and soon it will be the long, slow death of summer: the time I hate most. All I have to look forward to is dick jokes with the fanspastic staff, delicious picnics in the park, and okay, yes, another season of Merlin filled with delightful, gorgeous and shirtless Bradley James and the beautiful sight of Colin Morgan crying, and Katie McGrath filling out a dress in hot ways, and Angel Coulby having glowing skin and Anthony Head sexily bossing people ar---

Right. A long summer of nothing but dick jokes and maybe bad fanfiction. It's my thing. In the meantime, here are some charts and graphs and things about shows I love and will miss over the break.

( Right this way to me being shallow and delighted, then bawling )

When The New Adventures of Lois and Clark ended, fans wrote several "virtual seasons" to fill the gap. Actual, decent story arcs that fixed problems and were simultaneously episodic and related. Most fanfiction doesn't do that. Fanfiction is a huge addiction for me, and just as huge is my addiction to badfic. You know the stuff. Nothing is in character, and everything is kind of ridiculous, but it's so deliciously soap opera-y you can't stay away?

Don't lie to me, guys, I know you do it. So here is some science showing the difference between canon and badfic trends for a few of my favourite shows.

( They (mostly) do not involve brown paper packages tied up with string, but sometimes people do get tied up. )

Ladies, you know I love delicious bookmarks. Every time I dig through it I get my heart broken and laugh until I cry because it really is epic pain. You know what I mean. At first, it's all good. You're scrolling through your network and there's some good stuff tagged there.

But the next thing you know it's 3am on a Tuesday and you're staring, determined, at an actual subscription feed for something terrible like slave!Jensen or kitten!Merlin.

( DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER )

The first step is admitting you have a problem. The second step is going back for more because every time delicious punches me in the face I suddenly crave something even worse. "Oooh, maybe there will be something good for Generation Kill today!"

Probably not. But he only does it because he loves me.