Thank you, NCIS fandom

[bananacosmicgirl]

I just thought I'd take a moment and profess my love for the NCIS community. I've been active in different fandoms for more than ten years, and this is by far the one I've felt the most welcoming and lovely.

Me, I started out in the Lois & Clark: The new adventures of Superman fandom. While people there were perfectly nice, I was definitely much younger than the other active fans, and I never posted anything of my own. After that, I joined the Buffy-fandom, where I wrote and posted my first three fics. Got fairly good reviews, but I never became a real part of it.

I wrote two novel sized fanfics for Harry Potter, with great reviews - over 2 100 reviews on ff.net for one of them - and a whole bunch of shorter fics. However, the Harry Potter fandom is huge. Huge. It's the kind where, if you don't post in the right places and know the right people, you don't get noticed at all. The same ten fics within a pairing get recced over and over, and those people are it, and then there was the rest of us. Also, the hateful comments between fans of different ships weren't all that much fun to read - the different shippers got very protective, to the point of angry, about their ships. To top it all of, I was highly disappointed by the last three books.

Still, I loved being active - it's my most active fandom, fanfic-wise, so far.

I wrote a bit for House, but I've lost interest in the fandom with its recent decline in quality (although 'The social contract' was quite good). And like with the HP fandom, there's a lot of hate going around. The House/Wilson shippers vs the House/Cuddy shippers, and then there are the House/Cameron shippers, and it all just seems to be a big war to me a lot of the time. I know that far from everyone is this way, but it subtracted a lot from the enjoyment of the fandom.

Now, I'm in the NCIS fandom - and here I'm writing fic, making icons (I've made over 500 by now), wallpapers, headers, and modding comms (ncisfanfic and ncis_slash). I've never before participated in challenges and competitions like I do now - places like ncis_lims, ncis_stillness and ncis_lfws - and I'm enjoying myself so much!

The people are great, so nice, and everyone is just having fun. Sure, there is a little bit of fighting over what the best ship is, but mostly, people play very well together in our NCIS-y little sandbox. Perhaps it's because the show offers so many options - there are so many pairings to chose from (or for that matter, keep it gen), that it's not as rabid. People are most often perfectly nice to each other. Different opinions on episodes and characters don't matter - in the end, we all know we're NCIS fans. :)

So anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for creating such a lovely fandom.

*hugs*

Behind the cut: I have three headers up at the moment in three separate comms, so I thought I'd post them here, so that I can remember them later :)





Header and icons by me at ncis_stillness. Wallpaper available here.




Header by me at ncis_slash.




Header and the Ziva icon by me at zivacote_stills.


...and a banner :)

Comments

[tucker-liz.livejournal.com]

I have to agree, this is one of the nicest fandoms. Even if someone doesn't like a particular pairing, those who do don't take it personally. I like that. I've participated in fandoms where you either believe what they believe or you're flamed and hated on and generally made uncomfortable.

[bananacosmic.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That's how I felt the House fandom was with the 'wars' especially between "Huddy"-shippers and House/Wilson-shippers. The same thing with HP, although there, it was generally those who loved the last three books, versus those who didn't. Either way, it makes for unpleasant fandoms.