Inevitability (this could be triggery)

[khaleesian]

It's raining hard up in here. Snuggled under the covers, I like it.

I have discovered that my definition of when I am 'in' a fandom is slightly different from everyone else. Thinking about this has made me realize: I have some serious, serious control issues, people.

Comments

[synekdokee]

I sort of know how you feel, fandom wise (not about the physical stuff. I get ridiculously attached to things). I was truly surprised when I realised I'd been in the Inception fandom for a whole year. Usually my fannish interests don't last that long unless there's new resource material to keep me interested. My interest in Inception has only just now finally started to wane, possibly because it's been eclipsed by X-Men for now. My affair with the F&F fandom was really damn brief, even if the movies are my "I'm bored, what do I do to pass the time? OH I KNOW, WATCH SOME F&F!" movies now. I'm sort of really picky about which fandoms are *worth* my time, you know? Like when I first start to get interested, I have to think quite hard about whether this will last more than three months. If not, I'll just lurk mostly.

A good indication of how invested I am in a fandom is whether I bother to get an LJ icon for it, and if I do, how many do I get? So, I've got more Sherlock Holmes-related icons than I care to count because I've been a Holmesian since my teens, but I haven't got a single F&F icon. I've got only three X-Men icons because frankly I don't know how long this infatuation will last.

[khaleesian]

It's good to know that someone else is jealously guarding their mental space. It boggles my mind how some people can watch so many shows, like *intensely* follow and be fannish about so many things. I'm right there with you on the icons. If I got new icons that'd be, like, putting a freaking ring on a fandom for me. LIKE PLURAL MARRIAGE, MORMON OLD-SKOOL, EEEEK.