Randomness
Jul. 6th, 2008 12:47 pmSo, lately I have, in between playing WoW and writing for ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
femslash08, been binge-watching Kim Possible (it's Andy Weir's fault). It's surprisingly entertaining, and quite rich in jokes I'm not at all sure are actually aimed at their primary target audience.
I have also, of course, been looking for Kim Possible slash. That experience has been very similar to when I first started looking for Xena altfic some ten years ago. First, there is the incredible OTPness of it. Somewhere around 80% of KP slash is Kim/Shego, and I suspect something like that was Xena/Gabrielle back in the day. Second, there is the at least to me surprising underrepresentation of a pairing with pretty strong in-text support (Kim/Monique and Gabrielle/Aphrodite, respectively). Third, there is the astounding length of many of the stories. Like, where you first look at the wordcount number and think "Hm, that's a pretty long story", and then you realise that wait, no, that number has six digits, not five (I still remember being totally boggled when I realised that not only did Melissa Good's "Journey of Soulmates" series have quite a few parts, each part was an entire novel). I mean, who the heck sits down and writes a story of almost half a million words? That's half again as long as Lord of the Rings, just to give you something to compare with. Or about the same as Tolstoy's War and Peace (depending on which language you read Tolstoy in), if you're more familiar with that. The mind, it boggles.
And of course most of it is crap, but that is universal to all fandoms.
femslash08, been binge-watching Kim Possible (it's Andy Weir's fault). It's surprisingly entertaining, and quite rich in jokes I'm not at all sure are actually aimed at their primary target audience.I have also, of course, been looking for Kim Possible slash. That experience has been very similar to when I first started looking for Xena altfic some ten years ago. First, there is the incredible OTPness of it. Somewhere around 80% of KP slash is Kim/Shego, and I suspect something like that was Xena/Gabrielle back in the day. Second, there is the at least to me surprising underrepresentation of a pairing with pretty strong in-text support (Kim/Monique and Gabrielle/Aphrodite, respectively). Third, there is the astounding length of many of the stories. Like, where you first look at the wordcount number and think "Hm, that's a pretty long story", and then you realise that wait, no, that number has six digits, not five (I still remember being totally boggled when I realised that not only did Melissa Good's "Journey of Soulmates" series have quite a few parts, each part was an entire novel). I mean, who the heck sits down and writes a story of almost half a million words? That's half again as long as Lord of the Rings, just to give you something to compare with. Or about the same as Tolstoy's War and Peace (depending on which language you read Tolstoy in), if you're more familiar with that. The mind, it boggles.
And of course most of it is crap, but that is universal to all fandoms.
