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Where the heck are the "Hell on Wheels" fans? No, seriously, folks, I haven't fallen for a show this hard since a little show called "Battlestar Galactica."
Has everybody left Livejournal? I feel like the fandom prodigal, wishing to be warmed by some hot cowboy-on-the-Union-Pacific fanfic. There must be some out there.
Currently popular and large fandoms? For TV there's the BBC's Sherlock. It's widely liked, in spite of the two seasons consisting of only six ninety-minute episodes and another year to wait for season three. I tried the first episode and wanted John Watson to run far, far away from Sherlock Holmes, so I didn't watch the rest. But if you enjoy it, there's a ton of stuff to sort through, even on LJ. I stumble across it all the time without looking for it.
Game of Thrones has a wide online fanbase as well. I'm guessing the show would exceed my acceptable level of grimness, so I haven't tried it.
Doctor Who is still going strong. I watch the episodes and participate very minimally in the fandom, because the Whovians can be kinda scary. Still fic being posted on LJ as well as AO3.
Movies & Comics: nearly everyone loved The Avengers. Lots and lots of fic out there, some using only movie canon and others acknowledging the comics as well. If you have any fondness for the possibility of a Black Widow/Hawkeye pairing, there's a nicely active comm on LJ, be_compromised. AO3 has fic for almost any pairing. (Mostly slash there--not a surprise since slash is pretty dominant in most fandoms now, and since the movie itself only had one leading female.)
My own current favorites: Parks and Recreation has been a fantastic sitcom. I loved season three; season four was also quite good. If I were doing a promo for it, I'd say to skip season one, though. The leslie_ben comm fluctuates for activity, but when I feel like reading fic, there's almost always something I can find for that pair. Not much other fic-writing going on that I've seen.
Person of Interest is a CBS procedural--about to start season two later this month--and somehow I've fallen head over heels for it. It's a perfectly adequate procedural. One of the Nolan brothers (co-writers of the Bale Batman movies) co-produces it. Good but not great, and yet somehow I'm in the middle of my first (and hopefully only) multi-chapter fanfic for it. (The main LJ comm is, um, interesting, so I don't spend a lot of time there.)
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