Mini RL update and random Trekkies thoughts
I've finally moved out of the place I was staying at, yay! I'm not moving into the new place until the first of May, but ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
penelope_z has very generously put me up, so even the temporary arrangements are already a massive improvement on my previous living situation. Now I only need to find a job, and I can stop spending 75% of my waking hours (and judging by some weird-ass dreams, 100% of my sleep) panicking about money.
Mind you, the remaining 25% of my time is not actually bad. We just watched Trekkies and Trekkies 2 which has certainly been an...interesting experience.
The first film was certainly the lower budget of the two and I'd even say the one that made more of a statement on Trek fans, and fandom in general, in both the positive and the less-than-positive aspect. There's always a danger of anything on fandom that's just not meant for fandom having that snide "look at those basement-dwelling losers" undertone, and especially a documentary centering on Trek fans, a group that's both large and not exactly low-key in anything they do. And while there were some people who seemed to have a tenuous hold on reality (if you watch it, look out for the woman who insists on being called "Commander" at work and speaks of being part of the Federation in a very earnest, unironic way), somehow it never crossed into overtly mean category. Possibly because even the more out there fans were balanced by moments of genuine warmth and emphasis of the all the positives fandom has to offer, in interviews of both fans and cast members. James Doohan (Scotty) in particular almost made me cry at some point-he was really the best person ever. How did I not know that? The second film had better production values, and was personally very interesting to me because it looked at Trek fans in different countries, and watching how different cultures do fandom was a treat in itself (I want to attend an Italian Trek convention like burning. They have good food, fashion show, and a Catholic service with a priest talking about the ideological implications of Picard vs Q's attitudes).
It's still a weird film to watch as a fan. It doesn't even matter that it's a completely different fandom and focusing in different expressions of fannishness. Some things were completely outside my realm of experience and would probably require the kind of a)money and b)motivation I don't have (like building an apartment that's an exact replica of a starship or filming an, all things consider, fairly professional Trek fanfilm), but then there were moments that made me other squeal or wince in recognition-when some of the participants started engaging in that geek hierarchy bullshit and talking about those "other", weird fans (seriously dude? You have full Klingon make-up on. Look at your life, look at your choices!), my eyes nearly rolled off my head, and when actors started talking about smutty fanart they received and that strange thing called slash, I pretty much wanted to crawl inside the couch in embarrassment.
penelope_z has very generously put me up, so even the temporary arrangements are already a massive improvement on my previous living situation. Now I only need to find a job, and I can stop spending 75% of my waking hours (and judging by some weird-ass dreams, 100% of my sleep) panicking about money.Mind you, the remaining 25% of my time is not actually bad. We just watched Trekkies and Trekkies 2 which has certainly been an...interesting experience.
The first film was certainly the lower budget of the two and I'd even say the one that made more of a statement on Trek fans, and fandom in general, in both the positive and the less-than-positive aspect. There's always a danger of anything on fandom that's just not meant for fandom having that snide "look at those basement-dwelling losers" undertone, and especially a documentary centering on Trek fans, a group that's both large and not exactly low-key in anything they do. And while there were some people who seemed to have a tenuous hold on reality (if you watch it, look out for the woman who insists on being called "Commander" at work and speaks of being part of the Federation in a very earnest, unironic way), somehow it never crossed into overtly mean category. Possibly because even the more out there fans were balanced by moments of genuine warmth and emphasis of the all the positives fandom has to offer, in interviews of both fans and cast members. James Doohan (Scotty) in particular almost made me cry at some point-he was really the best person ever. How did I not know that? The second film had better production values, and was personally very interesting to me because it looked at Trek fans in different countries, and watching how different cultures do fandom was a treat in itself (I want to attend an Italian Trek convention like burning. They have good food, fashion show, and a Catholic service with a priest talking about the ideological implications of Picard vs Q's attitudes).
It's still a weird film to watch as a fan. It doesn't even matter that it's a completely different fandom and focusing in different expressions of fannishness. Some things were completely outside my realm of experience and would probably require the kind of a)money and b)motivation I don't have (like building an apartment that's an exact replica of a starship or filming an, all things consider, fairly professional Trek fanfilm), but then there were moments that made me other squeal or wince in recognition-when some of the participants started engaging in that geek hierarchy bullshit and talking about those "other", weird fans (seriously dude? You have full Klingon make-up on. Look at your life, look at your choices!), my eyes nearly rolled off my head, and when actors started talking about smutty fanart they received and that strange thing called slash, I pretty much wanted to crawl inside the couch in embarrassment.
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Job hunting = :(((
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