firefly fan test
May. 10th, 2007 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321Let me test my fannishness!
There is a show called Firefly. I'm sure I've seen references to it on my Flist. If I've seen references to it on my Flist, there must surely be fanfic.
Without checking any of it, totally blind, I'm going to hazard some guesses as to popular pairings, based solely on a look at one picture.
Those in the Firefly know: could you comment?? It would be fun to see to what extent I can predict OTPs. *g*
Those in the Firefly non-know (like me): Join me and have a go yourself! Look at the pic first without seeing what I guessed, and do your own guessing. *g*
I have no clue who these people are, and that's the point of my guessing game. *g* I'm going to label them 1 to 9, from left to right.
OTP: 6/8. I think the OTP might be 6 (dude in brown leather coat, conventionally handsome, not old, no facial hair; placed in foreground of photo and thus clearly marketed as a Major Character by the powers that be) and 8 (fairy-boy with satinny coat, looks totally gay; has sticky-uppy hair and fans love boys with sticky-uppy hair; could be paired with 6 where 6 is The Man and 8 is The Boy).
Next most popular: 6/4. 6 (for same reasons as above) and 4 (pale, young, dark, with a smart parting and a waist-coat; I'm guessing he's the goody-goody meticulous one, paired with scruffy manly 6).
I'm sure that 1/6 also has a loyal following. 1 seems to me like a Ronon character: the big action-man hunk. If his character in canon has even one nuance, his popularity is probably higher than I'm estimating. Because fans find it hard to resist a manly action hunk who has a nuance. I bet he bottoms.
3 is a rare pairing. Old and has a moustache. But if it's a big fandom, he'll have a specialist following. Possibly with 4.
Femslash: Now, here my radar is less attuned. (Heh, who knows, it may be totally mis-attuned anyway; the above may all be total rubbish, *gg*) But 5/7 is possibly popular (sultry, big lips and/or lipsticky lips, long curly hair -- or is that just my taste?). 9 could also be popular (she looks delectably mousy but I bet she's hot in bed). This could be a fandom with lots or with little femslash. I note that the creator also made Buffy and doesn't Buffy have lots of femslash? In which case, this might do, too, depending on canon characterisation.
Het: Hm, is there het in this fandom? If so, I'm hazarding 6/9 or 6/5; possibly also 1/5 or 1/7.
Again, I note: Six out of nine characters are white, 5 is equivocal (I can't tell from the photo), and one of the non-white characters is old and white-haired and thus a rare pair. 7 looks like the Teyla of this fandom.
Oooh. This was fun. *rubs hands in anticipation of commentage*
I'll wait for your lovely remarks, and then I'll do some fic-searching to falsify my hunches, *g*.
Oh, I do miss having a fandom in the throes of first passion. Currently, I'm sort of coasting on edges, and SGA seems a bit fallen asleep (true?).
There is a show called Firefly. I'm sure I've seen references to it on my Flist. If I've seen references to it on my Flist, there must surely be fanfic.
Without checking any of it, totally blind, I'm going to hazard some guesses as to popular pairings, based solely on a look at one picture.
Those in the Firefly know: could you comment?? It would be fun to see to what extent I can predict OTPs. *g*
Those in the Firefly non-know (like me): Join me and have a go yourself! Look at the pic first without seeing what I guessed, and do your own guessing. *g*
I have no clue who these people are, and that's the point of my guessing game. *g* I'm going to label them 1 to 9, from left to right.
OTP: 6/8. I think the OTP might be 6 (dude in brown leather coat, conventionally handsome, not old, no facial hair; placed in foreground of photo and thus clearly marketed as a Major Character by the powers that be) and 8 (fairy-boy with satinny coat, looks totally gay; has sticky-uppy hair and fans love boys with sticky-uppy hair; could be paired with 6 where 6 is The Man and 8 is The Boy).
Next most popular: 6/4. 6 (for same reasons as above) and 4 (pale, young, dark, with a smart parting and a waist-coat; I'm guessing he's the goody-goody meticulous one, paired with scruffy manly 6).
I'm sure that 1/6 also has a loyal following. 1 seems to me like a Ronon character: the big action-man hunk. If his character in canon has even one nuance, his popularity is probably higher than I'm estimating. Because fans find it hard to resist a manly action hunk who has a nuance. I bet he bottoms.
3 is a rare pairing. Old and has a moustache. But if it's a big fandom, he'll have a specialist following. Possibly with 4.
Femslash: Now, here my radar is less attuned. (Heh, who knows, it may be totally mis-attuned anyway; the above may all be total rubbish, *gg*) But 5/7 is possibly popular (sultry, big lips and/or lipsticky lips, long curly hair -- or is that just my taste?). 9 could also be popular (she looks delectably mousy but I bet she's hot in bed). This could be a fandom with lots or with little femslash. I note that the creator also made Buffy and doesn't Buffy have lots of femslash? In which case, this might do, too, depending on canon characterisation.
Het: Hm, is there het in this fandom? If so, I'm hazarding 6/9 or 6/5; possibly also 1/5 or 1/7.
Again, I note: Six out of nine characters are white, 5 is equivocal (I can't tell from the photo), and one of the non-white characters is old and white-haired and thus a rare pair. 7 looks like the Teyla of this fandom.
Oooh. This was fun. *rubs hands in anticipation of commentage*
I'll wait for your lovely remarks, and then I'll do some fic-searching to falsify my hunches, *g*.
Oh, I do miss having a fandom in the throes of first passion. Currently, I'm sort of coasting on edges, and SGA seems a bit fallen asleep (true?).