Fannish things and friending memes

[tardis_stowaway]

First, for anyone seeking more active LJ folks to know, there's another friending meme making the rounds:

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[andrea_deer]

O & S :)

[tardis_stowaway]

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

I'm not sure if this is asking me to purposefully pick a song that reminds me of a ship or character or to put my music on shuffle and free-associate with whatever comes up, so I'll do both.

My pick: the last song I added to one of my fannish playlists was Second Chances by Gregory Alan Isakov. It reminds me really intensely of Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes post-Winter Soldier. It's beautiful, with sound simultaneously sad and hopeful. It makes me think of Bucky recovering from being the Winter Soldier and trying to rebuild himself with Steve's help. Sample lyrics:

I’m running from nothing, no thoughts in my mind
oh my heart was all black
but I saw something shine
thought that part was yours, but it might just be mine
I could share it with you, if you gave me the time
I’m all bloody knuckles, longing for home
if it weren’t for second chances, we’d all be aloneShuffle: The first track shuffle gave me was from the Sherlock soundtrack, which is a little too

[andrea_deer]

Thanks for awesome answers! :) I love your Sally headcanon :)

[ladymercury_10]

E and X?

[tardis_stowaway]

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

Not in a few years, though I have several older cracky contributions. Several years ago I wrote a Sherlock parody set to the tune of The Devil Went Down to Georgia and a Doctor Who fic where the Doctor regenerates to look exactly like Jack Harkness. I also used to make humorous macros back in the pre-tumblr days.

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

A very incomplete list of tropes I realiably love: sidekick characters turning out to be the real heroes of the story, fairy tale themes, emotional hurt/comfort, Only One Bed, Huddling For Warmth, long-term mutual pining, friends to lovers, characters burdened by their pasts hashing out their issues together, OT3s.

[ladymercury_10]

Oh! Were you part of that one DW macro comm? I can't remember what it was called but I remember thinking it was funny.

That is a list of very good tropes! :)

[tardis_stowaway]

Yeah, ihasatardis was the DW macro comm. They had some pretty hilarious stuff back in the day.

:)

[qwentoozla]

F and K?

[tardis_stowaway]

F - What’s the longest you've ever been in a fandom?The answer to this varies depending on what one considers being in a fandom. The longest I've been in a fandom in terms of continuously paying attention to the canon, participating in online discussion, and creating/consuming fanworks is certainly Doctor Who. I got passionate about the show when I first saw it in 2005 and joined online fandom in 2007

[qwentoozla]

I think Doctor Who would be one of the longest for me too, if the question means "fandom you've been in for the longest continuous period" and not "first fandom you were in" (and I wasn't sure which it meant either, so thanks for answering both!)

I love Nine's arc too. :)