lifted from lizbee, 2016 fannish year in review
1. Your main fandom of the year?
I started to say I didn't know, but actually, possibly A Song of Ice and Fire, which I didn't think I liked when I first read it a few years ago, except then I reread it, and then I started reading analyses and theories from around the fandom, and now somehow I am on my fifth reread? And I have all these half-written posts about my own theories and analysis??? And I feel strongly enough about the books to talk shit about the show at every opportunity, even as I grudgingly admit that I probably wouldn't have read them if it weren't for the show?????? QUESTION MARKS??????????????
2. Your favourite film watched this year?
Overall, probably What We Do In The Shadows, which I discovered on HBOGo early in the year and have watched several times since then and which is equally delightful each time. New, on the big screen? Possibly Hunt for the Wilderpeople, also from Waititi. Maybe Rogue One.
3. Your favourite book read this year?
Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country, which I couldn't tear myself away from during downtime on the day of my sister's wedding because it is so goddamn amazing. It's about a Black family in 1950's Chicago who learn that they're related, via an escaped slave, to the leader of an Elder God-worshiping cult. Most of them are some form of fannish type, with collections of sci-fi, horror, and comics, and they publish a Green Book-style guide to traveling safely while Black.
In addition to just being great sci-fi/horror, it's a thoughtful consideration of what it means to have, as the kids call it these days, a problematic fave -- to wrestle with the fact that something you love was, at best, not produced for you, and quite possibly by someone actively hostile to you. Per Alex Brown at Tor, there are ghosts, terrifying possessed dolls, and extradimensional beings, but the real horrors are "the two-faced monsters willfully tormenting an entire race for no other reason than they can."
Also, the character development is so brilliant that by the second story (I am normally not a big fan of the anthology/short story collection format, but this as not only amaaaaaaaazing but tied each story in with the others closely enough and moves along a larger arc that while you might be able to read some of them independently, together they're a novel), I was like "lol, classic Letitia" about someone who had been only a supporting character in the first.
4. Your favourite TV show of the year?
Brooklyn 99 continues to be wonderful, so probably that. I've also been going back to DS9 now and then throughout the year, which is usually a good call. For new shows, I really enjoyed Westworld.
5. Your favourite online fandom community of the year?
My twitter feed, I guess? I have felt pretty disconnected from most of fandom for the past couple of years, to be honest.
6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Hm. Probably Westworld? That's the only thing I can really think of that was new to me, rather than continuing from previous years. I'm not really in a fandom space about it, though, so...
7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
I'm not really sure. The bright side, if one would call it that, of feeling disconnected from fandom is that you don't get as disappointed by things, so that's something? Possibly finding out that most people had hated Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, though, because it was 100% MY JAM. Dragon Age: Inquisition made me realize that I love a good "character time travels, gets a glimpse of the Darkest Timeline, must go back to prevent it from coming to pass" narrative, so I was basically clapping my hands giddily when I realized that was going to happen, plus the fact that Darkest Timeline Snape and Hermione had pretty clearly banged hit me right in my misspent fannish youth.
Granted, I had a feeling it would be my jam when Draco's first line was "I need a favor," reinforcing my theory that after the war, the Malfoys are essentially the Bluths of the wizarding world.
8. Your TV fictional boyfriend of the year?
Varric Tethras needs to call me. I also had a dream last month where I was stranded on a planet with Gul Dukat and we banged and I ain't even mad at my subconscious, it was consensual and hot.
9. Your TV fictional girlfriend of the year?
JOSEPHINE MONTILYET IS PRECIOUS CARGO!!!!!!
I also can't stop thinking about Naomie Harris as a female Sisko, so that might bear mentioning.
10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Maybe SDCC? Alternately, learning, shortly after I first watched What We Do in the Shadows, that Taika Waititi would be doing Thor: Ragnarok. My enthusiasm for the MCU has faded a lot, and what remains is mostly due to my affection for Thor, but after I learned that Jane wouldn't be in it even that was on the wane, so finding out that Waititi is running the show was like a breath of fresh air.
11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
A lot of them, actually! I think I just sort of miss...I dunno, the feeling that I used to get from fandom, the energy to engage, the feeling of connection. Writing has been a frustrating, difficult thing for a couple of years now and I'm trying different things to get back into it but it's just not working so far.
12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Star Wars: Episode VIII
New Star Trek!!!
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 is looking to be a big year for me in space opera, which I am more than ok with.
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.
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I started to say I didn't know, but actually, possibly A Song of Ice and Fire, which I didn't think I liked when I first read it a few years ago, except then I reread it, and then I started reading analyses and theories from around the fandom, and now somehow I am on my fifth reread? And I have all these half-written posts about my own theories and analysis??? And I feel strongly enough about the books to talk shit about the show at every opportunity, even as I grudgingly admit that I probably wouldn't have read them if it weren't for the show?????? QUESTION MARKS??????????????
2. Your favourite film watched this year?
Overall, probably What We Do In The Shadows, which I discovered on HBOGo early in the year and have watched several times since then and which is equally delightful each time. New, on the big screen? Possibly Hunt for the Wilderpeople, also from Waititi. Maybe Rogue One.
3. Your favourite book read this year?
Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country, which I couldn't tear myself away from during downtime on the day of my sister's wedding because it is so goddamn amazing. It's about a Black family in 1950's Chicago who learn that they're related, via an escaped slave, to the leader of an Elder God-worshiping cult. Most of them are some form of fannish type, with collections of sci-fi, horror, and comics, and they publish a Green Book-style guide to traveling safely while Black.
In addition to just being great sci-fi/horror, it's a thoughtful consideration of what it means to have, as the kids call it these days, a problematic fave -- to wrestle with the fact that something you love was, at best, not produced for you, and quite possibly by someone actively hostile to you. Per Alex Brown at Tor, there are ghosts, terrifying possessed dolls, and extradimensional beings, but the real horrors are "the two-faced monsters willfully tormenting an entire race for no other reason than they can."
Also, the character development is so brilliant that by the second story (I am normally not a big fan of the anthology/short story collection format, but this as not only amaaaaaaaazing but tied each story in with the others closely enough and moves along a larger arc that while you might be able to read some of them independently, together they're a novel), I was like "lol, classic Letitia" about someone who had been only a supporting character in the first.
4. Your favourite TV show of the year?
Brooklyn 99 continues to be wonderful, so probably that. I've also been going back to DS9 now and then throughout the year, which is usually a good call. For new shows, I really enjoyed Westworld.
5. Your favourite online fandom community of the year?
My twitter feed, I guess? I have felt pretty disconnected from most of fandom for the past couple of years, to be honest.
6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Hm. Probably Westworld? That's the only thing I can really think of that was new to me, rather than continuing from previous years. I'm not really in a fandom space about it, though, so...
7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
I'm not really sure. The bright side, if one would call it that, of feeling disconnected from fandom is that you don't get as disappointed by things, so that's something? Possibly finding out that most people had hated Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, though, because it was 100% MY JAM. Dragon Age: Inquisition made me realize that I love a good "character time travels, gets a glimpse of the Darkest Timeline, must go back to prevent it from coming to pass" narrative, so I was basically clapping my hands giddily when I realized that was going to happen, plus the fact that Darkest Timeline Snape and Hermione had pretty clearly banged hit me right in my misspent fannish youth.
Granted, I had a feeling it would be my jam when Draco's first line was "I need a favor," reinforcing my theory that after the war, the Malfoys are essentially the Bluths of the wizarding world.
8. Your TV fictional boyfriend of the year?
Varric Tethras needs to call me. I also had a dream last month where I was stranded on a planet with Gul Dukat and we banged and I ain't even mad at my subconscious, it was consensual and hot.
9. Your TV fictional girlfriend of the year?
JOSEPHINE MONTILYET IS PRECIOUS CARGO!!!!!!
I also can't stop thinking about Naomie Harris as a female Sisko, so that might bear mentioning.
10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Maybe SDCC? Alternately, learning, shortly after I first watched What We Do in the Shadows, that Taika Waititi would be doing Thor: Ragnarok. My enthusiasm for the MCU has faded a lot, and what remains is mostly due to my affection for Thor, but after I learned that Jane wouldn't be in it even that was on the wane, so finding out that Waititi is running the show was like a breath of fresh air.
11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
A lot of them, actually! I think I just sort of miss...I dunno, the feeling that I used to get from fandom, the energy to engage, the feeling of connection. Writing has been a frustrating, difficult thing for a couple of years now and I'm trying different things to get back into it but it's just not working so far.
12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Star Wars: Episode VIII
New Star Trek!!!
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 is looking to be a big year for me in space opera, which I am more than ok with.
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.
comments; reply there with your DW username or OpenID.