'No, there is too much. Let me sum up.'

[thalialunacy2]

Star Trek 2009 was a big fucking deal for me, accidentally. Life is what happens when you're half-heartedly writing for six different tiny fandoms to procrastinate on schoolwork, so I went to see it the weekend it came out, but mostly on a whim: friends invited me and I'm vaguely a geek so I figured ok.

And I fell ~hard, yo. In that indescribable way that involves adrenaline, nausea, and maybe even some crying. Like those girls in the photos from the Beatles first tour in the US. I fell so hard I slid without protest into the fandom in a way I hadn't in the half decade since I'd slid mostly out of HP, which had been a complex and sometimes very hurtful period in my life.

The experience I then had in the Star Trek fandom was ~immense. As immense as HP, though in a different way. I was more grown up this time. At least a little. As were most of us, a lot of HP veterans who knew what buttons not to push. And for whatever reason, in Trek I was definitely more of a big deal. I met dozens of people, wrote thousands and thousands of words, read what seems like millions of awesome stories, and exchanged hundreds of comments, on both my fic and others'. It was my ~place.

All good things must end, of course, and I'm mostly not bitter about Tumblr and STID. I've accepted that some things are beyond my control, that things change, and that maybe I'll never be as involved in a fandom again. I've started writing original fiction to fill the hole and I'm okay with that, even though it's not quite the same. I miss the community but I have people in my life from it that I will never, ever let go of. (Much to their chagrin I'm sure. ;) )

My memories of it are fond, is what I'm saying. And my love for it has remained. Jim and Bones still stir me, hearing the French horn rip from the beginning of it all still makes me grin even if I'm in the foulest of moods. It is a good, if not often visited, place in me.

Star Trek Beyond was 2 hours spent exactly in that place. That's the best way I can describe it. From the opening to the very last note, and every spinny-camera one-liner in between, I was home.

I'd list things in particular, but where do I even fucking start?



My heart.

Comments

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

I know you know this (I'm just catching up on the flist), but I LOVED IT SO MUCH. It was everything good about Star Trek, with a sprinkling of fandom thrown in. What I loved also, was that it was a film I thought that 'original' fans (even those original fans who are somewhat ungenerous about 'new' fans) could enjoy, what with it being basically an old school tv episode given a 200m dollar budget and a 2 hour slot, and also so respectful to newer fans and the stuff that is important to us. Even the shippier scenes (BE STILL MY HEART THE BIRTHDAY DRINKS OMG) felt like they were a nice nod to current fandom, without being meaningless fanservice as such. Like we're part of it all, rather than something outside to be appeased or maligned, depending on who's talking. Ugh, I don't know what I'm on about - I just LOVED IT OK. I need to see it again in 2D and not at midnight because I'm sure there's a ton of stuff that I missed.

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

Did you go see it again?! I managed to see it twice but haven't gone again because you know $$$ Pfft.