question for my flist - fandom jumping

[delorita]

Hi all!

I've never done this before but I am getting a bit overwhelmed lately. So, my dears, how do you feel about jumping fandoms? Looking at my tags page, I just KNOW I like too much stuff already. But more and more is suggested to me (Twilight, SN). And, knowing myself, once a friend has suggested it and I have looked into it, there is mostly no turning back. But I don't want to abandon my old fandoms especially since new fandoms always go along with buying new stuff and I just can not do that right now.

I'm sure this happened to all of you in some way or other. How do you handle it?

Comments

[sorion.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, if you step into Twilight, I will frown upon you... :X

I usually have room for fandoms. No problem there ;)

[delorita.livejournal.com]

lolol yes, I frowned upon Twilight all the time as well. But my sis has a big influence on me and we do tend to like the same stuff...

Did you see Twilight? Two of my usually hard core slash fans liked it too, that's why I got slightly curious...

[sorion.livejournal.com]

I tried to read it once and managed all of ten pages before throwing it out of the window...

And to be honest, I wouldn't watch the movie if you paid me. It's a Mary Sue nightmare, and I can see that without having to watch it :/
I could go for lengths why it doesn't just annoy me, but half of the concepts downright infuriate me, but don't get me started, please ^-^'

I'll just leave you with these XD
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews/2741-twilight
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews/13853-ep032
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews/25095-twilight-eclipse

[delorita.livejournal.com]

lolol now I am even more confused. Two of my friends suggest it warmly and you won't probably talk to me ever again when I watch it lolol Do you like vampire stuff at all?

I just discovered by cleaning my closet, that I also have "Fackeln im Sturm" to watch. Es ist noch eingeschweißt...Was hältst du davon? Ich hab es mal vor Ewigkeiten im TV gesehen und kann mich and die dicke Männerfreundschaft fast mehr erinnern als an die vielen Frauen...

[sorion.livejournal.com]

I have other Twilight fans on my flist ;-P Though not many... :X
Of course I like Vampire stuff. I love it. Or, well, I used to, because the current sparkle!Vamp hype is killing the mood something fierce.

SPOILERS
Even taking away the fact that Ed is the most one-dimensional character in history and really only looks good, sparkles and stares at her... I just want to hit that girl. I mean, really. When some guy stares through your bedroom window for months, he even breaks in to sit in a corner and watch you sleep, that is NOT romantic, and you do NOT go to prom with that guy, you call the fucking police. You definitely do not give up everything at age seventeen, just to be ~*~immortal~*~ with the sparkly stalker. That doesn't even take into account that he'll almost kill her while having sex, the demon spawn that is being created is almost going to kill her from the inside out, and he has to perform a c-section by vamp teeth to get the little monster girl out, who will then be pre-destined to get together with the werewolf who had the hots for her mother.
/SPOILERS

And the whole thing is badly written, the movie badly made and horribly acted.
I did tell you not to get me started XD And I didn't even get into it, yet :X


Fackeln im Sturm ist dieses historische Sklaven Ding, oder? Keine Ahnung ^-^''''

[delorita.livejournal.com]

Oh lolol haha thanks for the description. So glad you do like vampires! My very first favourite was Antonio's Armand in IWTV. Then I was blown away by Gary Oldman's Prince Vlad. Just last year I watched the somewhat odd Dracula 2000 but like Gerry Butler's Dracula as well. Also I got into the serial Blood Ties and just LOVE Henry Fitzroy (who also can NOT live during the day time!). Too bad that serial has only one season :(

"Fackeln im Sturm" ist "North and South" in english (glaub ich, mit Patrick Swayze.)

[sorion.livejournal.com]

I pretty much grew up with Christopher Lee XD Dad showed us all of his Dracula movies when we were kids :) And, yes, Gary Oldman blew me away, too. (Btw. My sister is going to cosplay Lestat in a few weeks... :3 But he gets away with being about as much of an idiot as our Ed... :X)

Ah... I think I remember that one being pretty nostalgia kitsch XD But I could be wrong, so don't quote me on that LOL

[delorita.livejournal.com]

which one being nostalgia kitsch?

Lestat...I don't like Tom Cruise since he has that thing with sientology (sp??)...but I love Anne Rice's writing style!

[sorion.livejournal.com]

Fackeln im Sturm being kitsch ;)

Why do you think Lestat is being taken apart on stage? :3 I absolutely detest Scientology.
And Anne Rice... well... she lost her marbles a few years back and has become completely dilusional. Kind of amusing, actually XDDD But ever since then, her grandness has decided that she - in her perfection - doesn't need an editor. Everyone needs an editor, her grandness (especially) included.

If you would like to know what I meant by "lost her marbles"... she deemed it necessary to rant on Amazon six years ago and insult people who didn't like her newest book. And her rant was so hilariously bad, that I had to post an entry XD
http://sorion.livejournal.com/59283.html
See what I mean? :3

[delorita.livejournal.com]

okayyy...Well, I think I read only 2 books from Anne Rice. So I can't say much about all that. Maybe if I picture Lestat as another actor, I might like him ;)

I know Anne R doesn't want fanfic about her characters at FF.net. (I wrote a story about Armand anyway lol)

And I don't know about Fackeln im Sturm anymore. I watched that 20 years back or so! Maybe I'll think the same about it now! I'll tell you when I started to watch it again ;)

[sorion.livejournal.com]

I don't really like her style, it's too overblown for my tastes. I like my stories at least a little more to the point ;) But even I can tell that her earlier books used to be good (even if not really something for me).
Now, she's suffering from delusions of grandeur. And possibly schizophrenia (I hear Lestat is talking to her XDDD)

Let me know about Fackeln im Sturm when you get to it :)