Come to the SV social

[norwich36]

"I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. The party with the...with the pants. The party with pants."
"Brick, are you saying there's a party in your pants and I'm invited?" (Anchorman)


No, actually the party is in the comments of this entry! Come and join the fun and meet new people in SV fandom. I would especially like to encourage you quiet folks lurking in the back--even those of you without livejournals of your own--to drop by and introduce yourselves. We're all a pretty friendly bunch here, and we like to make new friends. Fandom is more fun when you get involved and meet people, so why don't you stop by and say hi?

Here's a little mini-questionnaire, almost completely stolen from svmadelyn's glee week social, in case you need a conversation starter, but feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you are interested in answering:

1. Tell us something about yourself:
2. Likes (characters, ships, genres, TV shows, actors, real life stuff):
3. Dislikes (characters, ships, genres, TV shows, actors, real life stuff) :
4. What got you interested in Smallville?
5. What are your favorite SV episodes?
6. What SV fanfic do you reread most often?
7. Random facts (favorite food, color you wouldn't be caught dead wearing, pets' names, number of pairs of shoes you own, where you would live if you were a billionaire, etc.)

Happy delurking day! Come join the party!

Comments

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

It's very reassuring to come across other literary snobs who love Smallville. When I was first falling in love with the show, I kept having this "but I used to be so *highbrow*" angst over it. I've mostly stopped angsting, but I find myself setting up these weird reward systems -- e.g. "Okay, if I make it though another hundred pages of Tolstoy today, I get to watch two more episodes tonight" -- as if to prove to myself that my brain isn't really turning to mush.

The thing about the Identical series is that I'll think, oh, I'll just read the first piece and then I'll stop. But I never do stop. I've promised myself not to read it again until it's finished; we'll see how long that promise lasts.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's definitely reassuring! Thankfully I've long shared 'low brow' interests AND literary snobbery with my RL friend supacat, who introduced me to SV. Even so, Smallville was a new level of challenge to the snob in me! I like your reward system method! I should try that... ;)

And are you really reading Tolstoy? I've heard Anna Karenina's a good place to start. Personally War and Peace has defeated me five times already! However, I recently discovered that Dostoyevsky is not nearly as hard a read as I thought.

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

Just finished War and Peace about a week ago. It took me a month, and that month included a lot of long plane flights. But yes, I scored many literary-machismo points with myself for getting through the thing. And I actually liked it, for the most part, though it could have been a couple hundred pages shorter without any significant loss.

I would definitely recommend starting with Anna Karenina -- I read that one a couple years ago and LOVED it. It's 500 pages shorter than W&P, but more importantly, it's more novel-ish. W&P was so ambitious, like he was deliberately trying to write a culture-defining epic and a philosophical treatise on war and history in addition to a novel. AK is much more readable.

Which Dostoyevsky? I read Crime & Punishment and Notes from Underground in college, and remember really liking both, but that was quite a while ago now...

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

You've definitely confirmed what I've already heard on the W&P/AK front... I think I'll try and read AK this year. I've always left Russian lit alone until now, largely because it was my mother's field of expertise in uni, and as an only child of a single parent, you tend NOT to want to get into the same things as your mother... But yes, Dostoyevsky--Crime and Punsihment--I picked it as my 'travel novel' for my recent three week trip to the UK, but I finished it by the time I got to Heathrow! All these years I've laboured under the illusion that D was dense and incredibly highbrow, but no! I found C&P very readable and enjoyable--I'm keen to read some of his others now too.

And just because we've got chatting on books... I have a filter on my LJ where I post about the books I read--if you're interested in being on it, I'd love to have someone else to share thoughts with. (oh and I do cuttag spoilers so I won't spoil you for books you might not have read!) I filter because I don't want to bore all the fannish peeps! So totally no pressure if you're not interested.

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

Please do add me to that filter -- that sounds really interesting. (I was about to say, "plus, that will allow me to reassure myself that this LJ is about something other than fairy-tales and sex." But then, from some points of view, all literature is about fairy-tales and sex. Or at least sex. So there goes that argument...)

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Huaha! Yes. Um. It may be true... but fairytales and sex are somewhat more subtle in literature than in TV fandoms. *g* Let's just say there's a place for both. ;)

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

I also meant to say -- that's a fantastic icon. What's it from?

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Jamie? It's Jamie Bamber, a British actor who plays Lee in Battlestar Galactica (my *other* show (to Smallville)). He actually is a smarty pants, having an MA in modern languages and reading Dante in his spare time... Shamless Jamie Bamber pimping (http://bop-radar.livejournal.com/39220.html#cutid1). The icon, in this case, is by fg_iconz.