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More of that Fandom Meme
Jun. 26th, 2021 09:43 pmWhat’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
I mean, Doctor Who is the obvious answer here, but am I even really in it anymore?
I was so excited for the first female Doctor (something I've wanted since I was seven) and I do honestly think that Jodi Whittaker is trying her heart out, it's just that everything surrounding her is just so astoundingly meh. Even the Timeless Child, which seems to arouse strong feelings in every part of fandom, I was like: I have no particular thoughts or feelings about this, and will surely have no particular thoughts or feelings about its inevitable retconning.
What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
Two lessons, both from my time in Merlin fandom:
1) The time to leave a fandom is when you no longer enjoy the canon, even ironically. In the case of Merlin that should have been midway through season two. Instead I grumpily hung arond for the next three and a half years harshing other people's good time.
2) I will now swerve big fandoms that have a big designated slash juggernaut, only because even with the best of intentions it inevitably becomes frustrating to be at cross-purposes with a critical mass of people.
Squicks - What are some things that squick you in fandom - not necessarily "icky", though it can be. From anything involving blood, to bad grammar.
A few years ago there was a creep of girl penis fics (not trans characters, but cis female characters with dicks) into pretty much every medium to big femslash ship. And this became so common that they weren't always tagged, and, hey, I am a proponent of 'your kink is not my kink and that's okay' but that was really not my kink, so, please tag kindly.
The good thing about the explosion of A/B/O is that those sorts of fics now tend to fall under that umbrella and as such are clearly tagged. Easy to find for those who enjoy that sort of thing, easy to avoid if it's not your jam.
What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
Titles are hard, yes, but I find summaries harder to write, so much so thatI've now got a standard format for them.
["Line of dialogue from the fic that I think includes a neat turn of phrase."
Or,
Pithy one line summary of the plot.]
It works every time, and makes me very easy to identify during the anon period of exchanges.
Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
Not so much now that I no longer use tumblr, but back when I did it was very easy to passively follow half a dozen different shows through gifsets alone. Although it was also very easy to osmosis wrong.
Like, I've been listening to Critical Role of late and I'm about forty episodes in and I keep forgetting that the reveal about Yasha's dead wife hasn't come up yet, because I saw that gifset approximately seventy bajillion times.
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I mean, Doctor Who is the obvious answer here, but am I even really in it anymore?
I was so excited for the first female Doctor (something I've wanted since I was seven) and I do honestly think that Jodi Whittaker is trying her heart out, it's just that everything surrounding her is just so astoundingly meh. Even the Timeless Child, which seems to arouse strong feelings in every part of fandom, I was like: I have no particular thoughts or feelings about this, and will surely have no particular thoughts or feelings about its inevitable retconning.
What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
Two lessons, both from my time in Merlin fandom:
1) The time to leave a fandom is when you no longer enjoy the canon, even ironically. In the case of Merlin that should have been midway through season two. Instead I grumpily hung arond for the next three and a half years harshing other people's good time.
2) I will now swerve big fandoms that have a big designated slash juggernaut, only because even with the best of intentions it inevitably becomes frustrating to be at cross-purposes with a critical mass of people.
Squicks - What are some things that squick you in fandom - not necessarily "icky", though it can be. From anything involving blood, to bad grammar.
A few years ago there was a creep of girl penis fics (not trans characters, but cis female characters with dicks) into pretty much every medium to big femslash ship. And this became so common that they weren't always tagged, and, hey, I am a proponent of 'your kink is not my kink and that's okay' but that was really not my kink, so, please tag kindly.
The good thing about the explosion of A/B/O is that those sorts of fics now tend to fall under that umbrella and as such are clearly tagged. Easy to find for those who enjoy that sort of thing, easy to avoid if it's not your jam.
What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
Titles are hard, yes, but I find summaries harder to write, so much so thatI've now got a standard format for them.
["Line of dialogue from the fic that I think includes a neat turn of phrase."
Or,
Pithy one line summary of the plot.]
It works every time, and makes me very easy to identify during the anon period of exchanges.
Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
Not so much now that I no longer use tumblr, but back when I did it was very easy to passively follow half a dozen different shows through gifsets alone. Although it was also very easy to osmosis wrong.
Like, I've been listening to Critical Role of late and I'm about forty episodes in and I keep forgetting that the reveal about Yasha's dead wife hasn't come up yet, because I saw that gifset approximately seventy bajillion times.
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