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I put my name down on the SG1/SGA friending meme.
However, since my favourite SGA character is Teyla and my favourite SGA pairing is John/Teyla, I doubt I'm going to get any new friends out of it. The most-disliked character (or least-liked, anyway) and most-disliked pairing on SGA? Never let it be said that I in any way, shape, or form, run with the crowd! At any rate, I daresay that the other friending meme is going to be a bust for people like myself, who aren't McShep, Shweir, or Teynon (or whatever they're calling it).
I thought about running a friending meme for fans of Teyla: just for fans of Teyla. But I seem to be a bit of a black sheep in fandom these days. Hold the 'wrong' opinions. Say the 'wrong' things. Don't support the 'right' characters or the 'right' pairings in the 'right' ways. Hell, half my f-list avoids this LJ for one reason or another! Do I have any hope of getting total strangers involved in such an undertaking?
And even friends-of-friends would probably be a bust: the people I could count on to propagate this meme don't have large f-lists and aren't heavily involved in fandom. They might not even want to expand their f-lists.
Am I arguing myself out of doing this? Possibly. In fact, quite probably. But the fact is, a lot of Teyla's fans seem to have gone underground - and we who remain aren't exactly the cool kids. Now are we the uncool kids because we like Teyla, or is Teyla just liked by the uncool kids?
(No offence intended to any of my f-list reading this who are Teyla-fans. But you have to admit, we're not exactly a chatty, involved, super-popular bunch. Well, maybe you are! But I'm not.)
So what I'm basically asking is whether there's anyone reading this who'd pimp a Teyla-oriented friending meme, or knows of people who'd answer a Teyla-oriented friending meme run by me. (I think it's a valid question: there are at least three people I know of who are fans of Teyla but would rather slit their firstborn's throat than touch anything I'm involved in.)
It would be nice to expand the f-list with Teyla-fans (preferably productive ones) before the S4 spoilers start seeping out.
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I was going to watch Heroes: Hiro tonight. But all I wanna do is sleep.
However, since my favourite SGA character is Teyla and my favourite SGA pairing is John/Teyla, I doubt I'm going to get any new friends out of it. The most-disliked character (or least-liked, anyway) and most-disliked pairing on SGA? Never let it be said that I in any way, shape, or form, run with the crowd! At any rate, I daresay that the other friending meme is going to be a bust for people like myself, who aren't McShep, Shweir, or Teynon (or whatever they're calling it).
I thought about running a friending meme for fans of Teyla: just for fans of Teyla. But I seem to be a bit of a black sheep in fandom these days. Hold the 'wrong' opinions. Say the 'wrong' things. Don't support the 'right' characters or the 'right' pairings in the 'right' ways. Hell, half my f-list avoids this LJ for one reason or another! Do I have any hope of getting total strangers involved in such an undertaking?
And even friends-of-friends would probably be a bust: the people I could count on to propagate this meme don't have large f-lists and aren't heavily involved in fandom. They might not even want to expand their f-lists.
Am I arguing myself out of doing this? Possibly. In fact, quite probably. But the fact is, a lot of Teyla's fans seem to have gone underground - and we who remain aren't exactly the cool kids. Now are we the uncool kids because we like Teyla, or is Teyla just liked by the uncool kids?
(No offence intended to any of my f-list reading this who are Teyla-fans. But you have to admit, we're not exactly a chatty, involved, super-popular bunch. Well, maybe you are! But I'm not.)
So what I'm basically asking is whether there's anyone reading this who'd pimp a Teyla-oriented friending meme, or knows of people who'd answer a Teyla-oriented friending meme run by me. (I think it's a valid question: there are at least three people I know of who are fans of Teyla but would rather slit their firstborn's throat than touch anything I'm involved in.)
It would be nice to expand the f-list with Teyla-fans (preferably productive ones) before the S4 spoilers start seeping out.
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I was going to watch Heroes: Hiro tonight. But all I wanna do is sleep.
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To clarify my earlier point, for whatever reason, many Teyla fans or J/T fans exist, but prefer to be quiet. Why that is, I have no idea. But the hunger and desire for fandom is most definitely there. I hope you know how much all your hard work is appreciated. My little corner of the fandom is similar. My vids, mediocre at best, gander a handful of comments at most, but within 24 hours of being posted, average 600 downloads. I believe the interest is there, but perhaps not so much the desire to participate. And that is a sad loss for us.
Anyway, forgive my rambling. I don't have many on my f-list either, still being rather new to LJ, but you're welcome to use me anyway you wish!
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Ship wars? Teyla bashing? General anti-shipperness?
I don't use a ship banner at GW or in my LJ interests page (apart from one for a few months promoting the J/T party I was involved in organising) because I know shippers (of all kinds) have a bad reputation. I've seen many people discount an opinion because 'they're just a X/Y shipper' and it's assumed every thought they have is related to their ship. 'You like apples? Oh, that's only because one half of your favourite ship does.' (with appropiate condesending tone). And pointing out that you liked apples before you even heard of X/Y tends to lead to gang warfare.
Teyla is an unpopular character in parts of SGAdom for various reasons, some think she gets in the way of their ship, other see her as the 'sexy babe' character, others prefer more emotional characters, etc. Where as the Weir fans tend to go for volume the Teyla fans tend to go for silence. They (or to be honest, we) tend to just get on with our Teyla love quietly in our own little havens and not engage with others in SGAdom outside of the Teyla fans. Which of course leads to isolation and difficulties in finding each other.