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fannish5 topic for this week is "Five fandoms you wished you liked but just don't." I'm not sure exactly how I want to define this, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway.
1. Marvel comics
It's so biiiiig, and I can't be bothered to find the niches that I'd actually be interested in. And the canon is so extensive that someone like me, who is very much a casual comic reader, just isn't familiar with enough of it to really keep up. Hypothetically I'd like to get into Uncanny X-Men, and also Iron Man/Captain America seems like a cool 'ship, but meh. It's just not happening. I guess I'm the sort of fan that movie adaptation fandoms are made for.
2. The Sentinel
Dude, I don't know when this show was on the air, but it's fandom is apparently still going? At least somewhat, from what I gather from crack_van. It would be fantastic to be a part of a fandom with such strong staying power and I am a little jealous, I can't lie. But am I jealous enough to search out old canon and learn enough about it to actually join? Not right now, I'm not.
3. Big Bang Theory
I really enjoy this show, watch all the episodes as they air, 'ship some of the characters . . . and have almost no interaction with the fandom. I have a vague notion that the main pairing in the fandom is Penny/Sheldon, which may be part of the reason why I've never gotten into it (I don't get that pairing at allllll, and also I like Sheldon as aromantic) but who knows? I expect there's some fun stuff in that fandom, considering the canon, but I'm just not into it.
4. Star Wars
I like all the films and I've been a fan since I saw the original trilogy as a tiny little thing. Hell, I remember the first time I saw A New Hope while visiting my dad's parents in PEI. But beyond the very general I've never been a part of the fandom. I'm not sure why.
5. Lord of the Rings
Or rather, I don't want to like it, but wish that I didn't care. It would be so much easier if I could just read the books/watch the movies and geek out like a normal person, read all the fic and whatever that's been kicking around for ages, have enjoyed all the excitement when the movies were first released, etc. It's a huge fandom in a genre I enjoy. You think I'd gobble it up. Nope. Instead, I have a silly grudge against not Tolkien, per se, but more the idea of him as held in literary circles. I wish it weren't so, but it's not something that's just going to go away.
fannish5 topic for this week is "Five fandoms you wished you liked but just don't." I'm not sure exactly how I want to define this, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway.
1. Marvel comics
It's so biiiiig, and I can't be bothered to find the niches that I'd actually be interested in. And the canon is so extensive that someone like me, who is very much a casual comic reader, just isn't familiar with enough of it to really keep up. Hypothetically I'd like to get into Uncanny X-Men, and also Iron Man/Captain America seems like a cool 'ship, but meh. It's just not happening. I guess I'm the sort of fan that movie adaptation fandoms are made for.
2. The Sentinel
Dude, I don't know when this show was on the air, but it's fandom is apparently still going? At least somewhat, from what I gather from crack_van. It would be fantastic to be a part of a fandom with such strong staying power and I am a little jealous, I can't lie. But am I jealous enough to search out old canon and learn enough about it to actually join? Not right now, I'm not.
3. Big Bang Theory
I really enjoy this show, watch all the episodes as they air, 'ship some of the characters . . . and have almost no interaction with the fandom. I have a vague notion that the main pairing in the fandom is Penny/Sheldon, which may be part of the reason why I've never gotten into it (I don't get that pairing at allllll, and also I like Sheldon as aromantic) but who knows? I expect there's some fun stuff in that fandom, considering the canon, but I'm just not into it.
4. Star Wars
I like all the films and I've been a fan since I saw the original trilogy as a tiny little thing. Hell, I remember the first time I saw A New Hope while visiting my dad's parents in PEI. But beyond the very general I've never been a part of the fandom. I'm not sure why.
5. Lord of the Rings
Or rather, I don't want to like it, but wish that I didn't care. It would be so much easier if I could just read the books/watch the movies and geek out like a normal person, read all the fic and whatever that's been kicking around for ages, have enjoyed all the excitement when the movies were first released, etc. It's a huge fandom in a genre I enjoy. You think I'd gobble it up. Nope. Instead, I have a silly grudge against not Tolkien, per se, but more the idea of him as held in literary circles. I wish it weren't so, but it's not something that's just going to go away.