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thefourthvine

Poll: Choose Your Fandoms

Aug 29, 2006 18:18

Wait! Wait, please don't scroll past.

Yes, I know you've probably seen at least one other poll like this today. I have, too. In fact, I've seen four polls about popular current fandoms in the last 48 hours or so, mostly as people gear up for year-end stuff. And the results have been oddly variant, depending on who was hosting the poll and the ( Read more... )

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morgandawn August 29 2006, 18:17:20 UTC

I know I had one such poll - I'd love to see the others (I am pulling together the Bascon vid show so all data welcomed).

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 18:33:35 UTC

Yup, yours was one. At least one of the others was friends-locked, though. I'll try to get together a list of links and send them to you, okay? (Because of the friends-locked-ness, I don't want to comment with the links.) If I forget - well, if I forget and you remember, poke me, and if we both forget, I'm hoping someone else will cruise by here, say, "Hey, one of those was mine!" and drop a link.

abbylee August 29 2006, 18:21:27 UTC

I know you asked for "current" fandoms, but I checked some boxes for shows I don't really watch or read right now, because I still consider them my fandoms even if I'm not obsessing about them right now, because I will start again any minute.

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 18:41:03 UTC

*eyes you*

Well. Technically, that is against the Sacred Rules of the Poll, but I suppose if you know for sure that you're going to pick them up again in a week or a month, then that's more of a temporary fandom vacation.

But I will be keeping a very close eye on you, young lady.

*waves ruler menacingly*

(Yup, I'm practicing; I'm hoping to get a job as a martinet. But actually, I figure you know best what your current fandoms are, so you are best qualified to make the call. I just emphasized the "currently" in the intro to avoid the whole, "But I still love [name of character]! So I'm still in the fandom! Even if I haven't thought about it in years!" thing, which tends to happen with some fandoms.)

abbylee August 29 2006, 19:09:07 UTC

I'm more of a "But I still love [name of fandom]! Even if I haven't read any fanfiction in months! Because I looked at my boxsets and almost watched them! And then bookmarked fanfiction! .... and then ended up reading SGA instead ( ... )

thefourthvine August 31 2006, 09:42:43 UTC

*nods*

I have days or weeks where I don't bother reading anything new because I know I'm not in the right frame of mind to enjoy it; I only want stories like X. For me, X is usually a writer's style, so I'll spend the time either obsessively re-reading that person's stories or whining about why she doesn't write more. Or both.

But, you know, sometimes you just need - well, for example, Jane Austen. (Although it could be argued that there's no one who doesn't need Jane Austen. God, I love her.)

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ficbyzee August 29 2006, 18:23:50 UTC

Question. How do you define 'most active'? I mean--my current problem is that I'm not really 'most active' in *any* fandoms at the moment. Yes, it's tragic. I feel very adrift.

And--do you count 'watching and obsessing over vids' as a fannish activity? Because if so, I would be checking a lot more boxes and also adding some. (QaF, for instance. And the O.C. And VMars, and Invisible Man, and Life On Mars and--hell, this is why I like to consider vidding a fandom: it's the only place where I reallly fit!)

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 18:28:29 UTC

You know, I had "Vids" on the fandom list, and then I took it off because I thought only three people would check it, and I was one of them, and I already knew about the other two, so it seemed gratuitous. But now I'm thinking - well. Maybe there are more vidfans than I thought.

*experiences the 20/20 of hindsight*

lipsum August 30 2006, 04:51:00 UTC

I didn't try to add it in a write-in box, but I am slowwwly becoming a vidfan. And it is a separate fandom, IMO, because I'll watch vids for shows I've no interest in ever seeing ever.

thefourthvine August 31 2006, 09:45:12 UTC

*nods nods*

It is indeed a separate fandom - I approach vids differently than I do stories. And I will totally watch vids in fandoms I don't read, don't know, don't like; it's a whole different deal.

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kageygirl August 29 2006, 18:24:38 UTC

Man, the "current" requirement hurts! I am and have been in so many fandoms (I still kinda think the plural should be "fanda"), and I cycle in and out of them. But I was scrupulously honest anyway. Sniff.

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 18:44:44 UTC

*sniffles in sympathy*

I know. It really is painful; I'm still waffling about two of the fandoms, all, "But I've done something involving it recently, so surely I can count it."

Your scrupulousness is very much appreciated, though.

*bonds*

cathexys August 29 2006, 19:37:26 UTC

I had the exact same response. I mean, I have about half a dozen that I'll read in here or there and another half dozen that I'm fannish about but don't read...but I ended up only counting one as truly *current*...

[i mean, does mainlining NCIS and then reading all i can get my hands on two months ago count??? or how about that SV fic i read last week?]

katie_m August 29 2006, 18:31:11 UTC

If it were October, I'd have added BSG too, but I really only do meta-about-the-episodes for that one and as there aren't episodes right now...

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 18:47:02 UTC

For the record, "Intently awaiting the canon's return from hiatus" counts if you're doing it fannishly. (Squeeing about ads, knowing exactly when the first episode airs, and, um. All that other stuff that you brave folks who watch the canon in first run do.)

Basically, my call here is that you know what your current fandoms are, so if BSG is much in your fannish heart and mind, then feel free to count it.

elishavah August 29 2006, 20:15:47 UTC

Okaaaay, but what if you're not doing it fannishly on purpose? Me, the spoiler-phobe that I am, I'm avoiding anything and everything BSG right now, and other than October, I have no idea when the new season starts (if Katie hadn't said that above, I would've said "fall").

Or like with dead fandoms? Because I'm not currently writing Due South or Sports Night or Farscape or a bunch of others, but if someone posts something that twigs my interest, I'll read it or talk about it. I mean, I haven't abandoned them altogether and I have no idea when they could spring back up to the front of my mind instead of hanging out there in the back, drinking and keeping themselves company.

And those are only a couple of my, "But...what about...?" flailings.

I suck at polls. They're haaaaard.

thefourthvine August 31 2006, 16:50:25 UTC

Whoops! I didn't get this comment notification, and I just noticed it. Um. Sorry.

But, basically, my call is - you're still fannish about BSG; avoiding spoilers is another kind of anticipation, is all.

But old fandoms, yeah, most people don't totally abandon them, but that doesn't make them current. You know what you love, fannishly speaking - what you seek out (or avoid, but for reasons of love), what you crave. Or, here's an example of a way you could think about it. A fabulous writer (who can write equally well in any fandom) offers to write a story for you, you pick the fandom. What are the ones that immediately spring to mind?

In my opinion, fannishness is - unsurprisingly - like porn: you know it when you feel it.