my two cents, and....why is your otp your otp? I wanna know. really.

dude. haha. every time I come back to LJ people are more and more frenzied. I feel like we've been experiencing the 10 Plagues of Fandom. kerfluffle and wank and deletion, oh my!

poor, poor abused little fandom. it's been a rough month, hasn't it?

because I've been getting emails up the wazoo about my own locked fic, I take it that some lurkers don't know what's going on. ( the gist for the lurkers that are clueless )

( my two cents for folks who are already swept up in the Great Journal-Locking Dash 2007 )

on to more pleasant matters. I honestly don't care to talk much about the above. it's being talked to death elsewhere, and I think this will all blow over eventually, and we'll all still be here. I hope. I would appreciate it if your comments were more focused on my otp question than the lj headache.

I want to talk about FANDOM, dammit. not the institution, the activity. I want to talk about the reason why we're *here*. so what I wanna know today, is....why your otp? why that one?

I'm not talking about the party line. I'm talking about...why is your otp important to *you*? personally. what about that pairing speaks to *you*?

( me first...why *is* spangel the otp for me? )

this just in: I'm slow.

ok, the first time I saw the "join fandom_counts" posts, I sorta kinda may have rolled my eyes because I thought it was a place for bitching.

turns out, it's just a body count to let lj know how many of its 13 million journals belong to fandom, and therefore how afeared they should be of us. no posting access, it's just that by joining, you add to the tally of "just how many of us are there." I think this is an excellent idea, actually. and now I'm all curious about the end tally.

so yes. fandom_counts. clickie clickie, joiny joiny. I'm lookin at you, lurkers.