I occasionally use fandom as a way of separating the wheat from the chaff. Not through fanworks, but if a friend whose taste I generally enjoy starts babbling about a show or book series, I'll check out the source. Actually, that's probably how I find what little TV I watch; otherwise, I just wouldn't watch anything. (I don't have a TV, so I don't see commercials or anything.)
I think my problem with reading fanfic before seeing a source is that I see/hear things I read like movies in my head, and I like to have the actor's voice/image to work with.
Spanish lit and English lit major here. Magical realism makes my year, no lie.
Oh, fabulous! I just got an MA in English, and I adore magical realism as well. (I did take Spanish in high school, but I don't think that had anything to do with it--we didn't read much lit at that level.) You would definitely enjoy the show, then.
To be honest, it sounds ridiculous in that awesome, we've-reached-our-limit-so-break-out-the-crack kind of way re: the sixth season.
Eh, I don't know that it would really be considered cracky. It was just sort of directionless more than anything else.
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Date: 2010-05-30 07:05 pm (UTC)I think my problem with reading fanfic before seeing a source is that I see/hear things I read like movies in my head, and I like to have the actor's voice/image to work with.
Spanish lit and English lit major here. Magical realism makes my year, no lie.
Oh, fabulous! I just got an MA in English, and I adore magical realism as well. (I did take Spanish in high school, but I don't think that had anything to do with it--we didn't read much lit at that level.) You would definitely enjoy the show, then.
To be honest, it sounds ridiculous in that awesome, we've-reached-our-limit-so-break-out-the-crack kind of way re: the sixth season.
Eh, I don't know that it would really be considered cracky. It was just sort of directionless more than anything else.