Fannish knowledge is a zero sum game

[lizardbeth]

Once upon a time, I could play "name that episode" of ST:TNG with my roommate -- we could identify the episode in the first minute of the teaser. Sometimes only a few frames. But I noticed that as I started into B5 and XF, my TNG knowledge started to disappear. Which led to my theory of finite fannish space in my brain -- as I accrue trivia about one fandom, other trivia disappears. This is especially true because I like mythology-heavy fandoms the best where there's just so much to keep track of, it becomes a 'use it or lose it' situation.

This was prompted by realizing I've reached the point in my BSG/B5 xover where To Dream in the City of Sorrows would be handy, and I don't remember it anymore. And the book's buried in the garage. Sad, how much I've now forgotten. :( But hell, it's a crossover in two dead/dying fandoms, so whatever, I'll do what I can, but I'm not going crazy for no point.

(We won't talk about how Not All That We Are taunts me every single day from my layout. *sigh* Yeah, more long BSG fic. I'm such an idiot. bah. But I need to finish it off)

Comments

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I can... still sort of do that with TNG, but not always.

<3 <3 <3 <3 crossover, yay.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I can only do it with eps I really liked (or really hated, lol), The rest all blend together. and I used to know a ton of trivia about the ships and minor characters and all that random crap that has long since gone poof. But I haven't even watched anything but random eps of TNG in prob ten years. All that info got replaced by the ships of the Galactica fleet and pilots and that sort of thing...

I was just fiddling with the crossover post Nano and actually moving on it, so it's my project right now, I guess, while I get reacquainted with my Yuletide fandom...