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That Fandom Meme...
Jun. 24th, 2021 10:08 pmBecause otherwise you get a post about how my fridge crapped out and the replacement that I bought was too big for the space, so I had to spend two straight days moving a bunch of cabinets in my kitchen two inches to the left. And, no, I do not have a good answer to the question: Why didn't you return it and buy one in the right size?
What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
I read practically nothing - books or fic - because parsing words was just not happening. I wrote very little, except in mad, frantic bursts at two o'clock in the morning when my brain went off on some mad tangent in self defence.
I was into video games if I was into anything, largely because for huge chunks of last year they were the only fandom input my exhausted brain would accept.
This is, at least partially, changing. I read the first two hundred pages of one The Expanse books in a single sitting in the garden last week, and the first fic I've written this year (in a video game fandom tho) is sitting in my AO3 drafts waiting to be posted. I'm actually really proud of it, I think it's really good. But the last time I posted a fic I thought was genuinely one of my best I attracted the attention of a weird troll who wouldn't leave me alone for three days. So I'm excited to see what happens with this one!
Your newest fandom.
Ever since Game of Thrones shat the bed, I've been in that weird no man's land of not really having a main fandom.
I've been listening to a lot of Critical Role lately, but I wouldn't say I'm fannish about it, at least partly because I can't get on with ttrpgs in real life so I'm listening to it like it's a super long, weirdly paced radio play where the people involved shout numbers excitedly at random intervals. Plus, by the time I started it I knew Beau/Yasha were endgame, and that's cool, but it blunted any impulse I might otherwise have had to seek out transformative works.
So, I suppose the closest thing I have to a fandom right now is...random ass video games, which I kinda feel I should talk about more as it accounts for a lot of my non-work time, but I'm not sure many people on DW would be interested in my 'I have played one hundred hours of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and this is everything I hated about it' post. And there aren't many places on the wider gaming internet where you can say Last of Us II was better than the first one, and Abby was the best part of it, without having to immediately duck for cover.
You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them?
Speaking of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, there's a subplot you can play out where you have been secretly pining for your brother's wife for years and you two get together while he's away being a dillhole. This is a trope that I love so much that it was my favourite part of the game, even though the love interest's facial animation is parked squarely in the uncanny valley.
The game offers you an alternative love interest who isn't as interesting to me but whose facial animations aren't quite so much: Gah! Bad! Wrong! But you can't have both.
So I think that the game should let me have my cake and eat it with Eivor/Randvi/Petra, because what's the point of being a video game protagonist if I can't seduce all the female npcs? Alternatively, just animate Randvi's face so she looks less terrifying, idk.
What are the origins of your penname/username?
I was fifteen (jfc, forty is hoving into view on the horizon), it was late, I needed to come up with something to sign up to a forum.
What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
Size isn't everything. I have been in legit megafandoms *cough*Merlin*cough* where I have functionally been in a fandom of three. Do I sometimes wish that people in the fandoms I'm into were more into femslash, female characters, and weird gen? Yup. But given that it's absurd to police what other people like, and that I reliably fail at gettin into femslash centric fandoms, I like to think that I have become comfortable about doing my own wee thing in my own wee corner.
( further questions to be answered at a later date )
What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
I read practically nothing - books or fic - because parsing words was just not happening. I wrote very little, except in mad, frantic bursts at two o'clock in the morning when my brain went off on some mad tangent in self defence.
I was into video games if I was into anything, largely because for huge chunks of last year they were the only fandom input my exhausted brain would accept.
This is, at least partially, changing. I read the first two hundred pages of one The Expanse books in a single sitting in the garden last week, and the first fic I've written this year (in a video game fandom tho) is sitting in my AO3 drafts waiting to be posted. I'm actually really proud of it, I think it's really good. But the last time I posted a fic I thought was genuinely one of my best I attracted the attention of a weird troll who wouldn't leave me alone for three days. So I'm excited to see what happens with this one!
Your newest fandom.
Ever since Game of Thrones shat the bed, I've been in that weird no man's land of not really having a main fandom.
I've been listening to a lot of Critical Role lately, but I wouldn't say I'm fannish about it, at least partly because I can't get on with ttrpgs in real life so I'm listening to it like it's a super long, weirdly paced radio play where the people involved shout numbers excitedly at random intervals. Plus, by the time I started it I knew Beau/Yasha were endgame, and that's cool, but it blunted any impulse I might otherwise have had to seek out transformative works.
So, I suppose the closest thing I have to a fandom right now is...random ass video games, which I kinda feel I should talk about more as it accounts for a lot of my non-work time, but I'm not sure many people on DW would be interested in my 'I have played one hundred hours of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and this is everything I hated about it' post. And there aren't many places on the wider gaming internet where you can say Last of Us II was better than the first one, and Abby was the best part of it, without having to immediately duck for cover.
You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them?
Speaking of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, there's a subplot you can play out where you have been secretly pining for your brother's wife for years and you two get together while he's away being a dillhole. This is a trope that I love so much that it was my favourite part of the game, even though the love interest's facial animation is parked squarely in the uncanny valley.
The game offers you an alternative love interest who isn't as interesting to me but whose facial animations aren't quite so much: Gah! Bad! Wrong! But you can't have both.
So I think that the game should let me have my cake and eat it with Eivor/Randvi/Petra, because what's the point of being a video game protagonist if I can't seduce all the female npcs? Alternatively, just animate Randvi's face so she looks less terrifying, idk.
What are the origins of your penname/username?
I was fifteen (jfc, forty is hoving into view on the horizon), it was late, I needed to come up with something to sign up to a forum.
What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
Size isn't everything. I have been in legit megafandoms *cough*Merlin*cough* where I have functionally been in a fandom of three. Do I sometimes wish that people in the fandoms I'm into were more into femslash, female characters, and weird gen? Yup. But given that it's absurd to police what other people like, and that I reliably fail at gettin into femslash centric fandoms, I like to think that I have become comfortable about doing my own wee thing in my own wee corner.
( further questions to be answered at a later date )