100 Things That Make Me Happy: #13
13. Being hopelessly in love with a new fandom
There is nothing quite like new fandom love. Sure, an old, established fandom love is great: you know what you're getting, you know what (and who) to avoid or seek out, you have favorite comfort episodes, you always know exactly where to go to get your vid clips (or at least have a good general mindmap of it); you have history that you can rely on.
But new fannish love fills me with a particular kind of glee, and since I am right in the middle of some, I figured now would be a good time to put it on the Happy List.
New fannish love is thrilling, especially if you still have new episodes to watch. If it's live-airing, the wait week-to-week (or months during hiatus!) can be agonizing, although you're happy to fill your time talking incessantly about last week's episode and speculating on what's to come. Plus SOMEONE has to make all those fill-in-the-timeline fics!
New fannish love says, "I don't know what pitfalls are in store for me in this particular show/fandom, and I don't care. Right now I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR. GIVE ME MORE, PLEASE."
New fannish love is, well, I composed a list:
You Know You're Hopelessly In Love With A New Fandom When...
1. Every single song is CLEARLY a vid about the show. Every song.
2. You're reading every fic you can get your hands on - and they're all making you flail.
3. You're watching every vid available on AO3, the vidding comm, and even YouTube - and they all delight you.
4. Seeing your fandom show up unexpectedly in multifandom vids makes you ludicrously happy. It's like a personal shoutout.
5. You made a playlist(s) for your OTP/character/show/favorite thematic arc.
6. You've never considered learning how to make icons before, but your need is GREAT and your options limited.
7. You make room for 5-15 new icon spaces. You use them all.
8. Your Google searches start automatically bringing up actors and show-related words as the first options.
9. CAPSLOCK.
10. "No, I'm not a fic writer." ... "Wait, where did this 3000 word story come from?"
What else would you add to the list?
(And on a related note, this Persuaders! vid has brought me more joy than I thought humanly possible. I'm pretty sure the vidder repeated the second half of the song three times in a row just to lengthen the vid, and I don't care. I wish it were longer. That is the power of new fandom love.)
(And on another related note, Persuaders! fans: thoughts on a serious Danny vid? I have a song that I feel would be PERFECT for his relationship with Brett, but I'm not sure the source is there for it. But, gah, it EATS AT ME.)
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There is nothing quite like new fandom love. Sure, an old, established fandom love is great: you know what you're getting, you know what (and who) to avoid or seek out, you have favorite comfort episodes, you always know exactly where to go to get your vid clips (or at least have a good general mindmap of it); you have history that you can rely on.
But new fannish love fills me with a particular kind of glee, and since I am right in the middle of some, I figured now would be a good time to put it on the Happy List.
New fannish love is thrilling, especially if you still have new episodes to watch. If it's live-airing, the wait week-to-week (or months during hiatus!) can be agonizing, although you're happy to fill your time talking incessantly about last week's episode and speculating on what's to come. Plus SOMEONE has to make all those fill-in-the-timeline fics!
New fannish love says, "I don't know what pitfalls are in store for me in this particular show/fandom, and I don't care. Right now I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR. GIVE ME MORE, PLEASE."
New fannish love is, well, I composed a list:
You Know You're Hopelessly In Love With A New Fandom When...
1. Every single song is CLEARLY a vid about the show. Every song.
2. You're reading every fic you can get your hands on - and they're all making you flail.
3. You're watching every vid available on AO3, the vidding comm, and even YouTube - and they all delight you.
4. Seeing your fandom show up unexpectedly in multifandom vids makes you ludicrously happy. It's like a personal shoutout.
5. You made a playlist(s) for your OTP/character/show/favorite thematic arc.
6. You've never considered learning how to make icons before, but your need is GREAT and your options limited.
7. You make room for 5-15 new icon spaces. You use them all.
8. Your Google searches start automatically bringing up actors and show-related words as the first options.
9. CAPSLOCK.
10. "No, I'm not a fic writer." ... "Wait, where did this 3000 word story come from?"
What else would you add to the list?
(And on a related note, this Persuaders! vid has brought me more joy than I thought humanly possible. I'm pretty sure the vidder repeated the second half of the song three times in a row just to lengthen the vid, and I don't care. I wish it were longer. That is the power of new fandom love.)
(And on another related note, Persuaders! fans: thoughts on a serious Danny vid? I have a song that I feel would be PERFECT for his relationship with Brett, but I'm not sure the source is there for it. But, gah, it EATS AT ME.)
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there. (
comments at DW)