DPP: Pilots for Dummies (or How I Explain This Insanity to Muggles)

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Greetings and salutations, Shipper Nation! I'm Amy, your friendly neighborhood monkey ninja. My plans for this week require a good deal of audience participation, so you may as well block off the whole week on your calendar right now. :) I'll wait right here... Go ahead...

Anyway, I've had this topic idea for quite a while now, and it ends up kind of timely, since the gang on Twitter was talking over the weekend about recruiting for Shipper Nation. Pardon my mixed fandom metaphor, but today I'd like to know how (or even IF) you've ever explained pilots to the Muggles in your life.

By way of explanation, my company has this open-plan building concept where the cubicles only come up to about your waist when you're standing. This means that almost everyone in your area can see you from their desk. This also means that when I'm reading particularly interesting Daily Pilots Posts, my cube neighbors can see and hear my reactions. Now, thankfully, my monitor faces a corner, which will be useful later this week, but it still means that every so often I'm asked what's so funny or why I'm smiling or shaking my head, etc. If you've commented at no_takebacks  before, there's a pretty good chance I've quoted you out loud. I'm a sharer, what can I say?

So, tell me- have you ever tried to get a friend to watch BSG? How did you try to sell it? Or, have you ever tried to get a casual BSG fan to come and join our little discussions here? Maybe you prefer to keep this whole thing your private little secret. That's OK, too. Your mission is to tell us how you've made your case for pilots (or why you'll never tell). If you used visual aids, include them (why, yes, that IS a cheap ploy to include teh pretty). Have you shown someone a fanvid, a scene from the show, that gif from Eye of Jupiter where you get a little flash of tongue? Ahem. Yeah, so... How do you explain the fandom to an outsider?

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I had a quasi fandom with Pacey/Joey from Dawson's Creek I guess, in that I was checking message boards a lot and writing long melodramatic fic for them. LOL. The community element of LJ is a whole different experience though.

I think I would've found it easier to get over/not so terribly traumatic if I wasn't in this fandom and as active as I was? Like if I just loved them a lot while I watched on DVD for a few weeks....then I don't know...

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, who knows, right? I think I would have found it harder to get over without fandom for support BUT I looked for fandom after the 4/4.5 crazy hit in order to discuss/empathize/etc. I see your point though...since you were already part of the fandom and then had the crazy blow up all around you, it does make sense that it would be harder to get free. Hmmm...