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nnyIt's weird because despite my ridiculously untidy bedroom and my disorganisation gene and the fact that I'm quite ridiculously slack, I'm actually a bit of a pedant. I really love combing through canon and checking up on things, getting references, that kind of thing. Never anything related to my course, because I don't like my course (oh I should have done English lit) but things I'm fond of? Yes. Definitely.
So what I was thinking was that I'd make a journal purely for Good Omens resources. So, say, a post on Crowley's physical appearance with quotes from the book. Every quote concerning his appearance in one place, which could then be memoried. Lots of bits and pieces of canon - appearance, residence, family facts of the Them, all that sort of thing. I think it could be potentially useful, for me, and for anyone else who could choose to use it.
A couple of things that worry me. I vaguely wonder if it would be used as an excuse not to read the book, which is NOT something I want to encourage. Not even slightly. It's an amazing book, the book is why the fanfiction exists, and I wouldn't want that coming about as a result of this.
Secondly, I worry that it would appear prescriptivist and entirely too egotistical, which I never want to appear. I would like people to get it right because I love this fandom and I love the characters and sometimes I have to wince slightly at some assumptions or mistakes, but I'm completely not above making them or even encouraging them. I'm rather fond of Crowley's black wings in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar, for instance, which are probably not what was intended in canon. But colour's not explicitly stated. So it CAN be argued. So I guess even if this was all done there's still room for interpretation, and I'm not creating or enforcing anything, just making things slightly easier.
Hmm.
I could use some opinions. Is this a good project to do (not until the summer, though, NO WAY)? Would anyone reading this find it useful? Should I really not bother?
If you're in GO fandom please, please respond to this.
So what I was thinking was that I'd make a journal purely for Good Omens resources. So, say, a post on Crowley's physical appearance with quotes from the book. Every quote concerning his appearance in one place, which could then be memoried. Lots of bits and pieces of canon - appearance, residence, family facts of the Them, all that sort of thing. I think it could be potentially useful, for me, and for anyone else who could choose to use it.
A couple of things that worry me. I vaguely wonder if it would be used as an excuse not to read the book, which is NOT something I want to encourage. Not even slightly. It's an amazing book, the book is why the fanfiction exists, and I wouldn't want that coming about as a result of this.
Secondly, I worry that it would appear prescriptivist and entirely too egotistical, which I never want to appear. I would like people to get it right because I love this fandom and I love the characters and sometimes I have to wince slightly at some assumptions or mistakes, but I'm completely not above making them or even encouraging them. I'm rather fond of Crowley's black wings in
milliways_bar, for instance, which are probably not what was intended in canon. But colour's not explicitly stated. So it CAN be argued. So I guess even if this was all done there's still room for interpretation, and I'm not creating or enforcing anything, just making things slightly easier.Hmm.
I could use some opinions. Is this a good project to do (not until the summer, though, NO WAY)? Would anyone reading this find it useful? Should I really not bother?
If you're in GO fandom please, please respond to this.
