Nostalgia for prior fandoms/characters...

[cathalin]

I was already in a Weird Phase, and now it seems to be morphing to Even Weirder. For me, that is. Because I never "go back" to write old fandoms/characters. I just... can't. I don't know what it is or understand it or necessarily even want it to be that way, but it's how I've been for... well, forever in fandom

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[aesvir]

Reminds me of the Smallville series finale, and how a lot of us came back for the last hurrah of Clark/Lex. I've likewise drifted away from Supernatural but enjoy phases of nostalgia.

[idahophoenix]

I wonder about this a lot--as I find myself more critical of what I read in the Adam fandom and often reading in other fandoms. It was a fun stretch for me to write in something different for Yuletide...but I'm ready now to write another Adam fic. I think I'm definitely multi-fandomish in my interests--a sucker for good writing and well developed characters in general. But I have this sad sort of...oh my god the honeymoon is over feeling right now and kind of feel like I'm cheating on Adam as I wander into other fandoms. (I'm sure he'd be most upset with me!)

Also, LOL, who knew the power of the Canadian shack! I'm wondering if as you're revisiting old characters, you're discovering new things about them? Is writing them now different because you've written so many others?

[anoel]

I go back to fandoms but usually when I rewatch the source and then usually it's just to make a vid or read fic or write up a post. It's not the honeymoon, obsessive phase for the most part unless there's some great new source. I've been multifandom for a long time so I go back a fair number of times.

[rouxb]

I am pretty mono fandom but am right now about mono.5

I am moving slowly and quietly away from my mono, more from lack of good stories than from interest, but I will never leave it. I am pathologically loyal and once I love you, well, I love you.