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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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cherryice August 29 2006, 18:31:30 UTC

This is tricky, because there are a number of boxes I didn't check that I could have. I don't consider myself really active in them at the moment, but I'll still read stories in them that are recommended.

I missed sticking Life on Mars in the textbox, because it's possible that I am currently pursuing a new (to me) fannish avenue with it.

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 18:51:05 UTC

I don't consider myself really active in them at the moment, but I'll still read stories in them that are recommended.

Yeah. I mean, that applies for all but about four of these boxes for me (which is not a surprise, since I took it from the list of stuff I've recommended in the past); it's just, I'm not hunting new fan fiction in the wild or aggressively pursuing recommendations or whatever in those fandoms. But if someone I trust is going to throw that link in front of me, well...

I still didn't tick those boxes, though, unless I had actually done something recent with the fandom.

it's possible that I am currently pursuing a new (to me) fannish avenue with it

Okay. Now I'm curious. Not that I would, you know, pry, but - wait. I would totally pry. So, pray tell: new fannish avenue?

*pries*

cherryice August 29 2006, 18:59:17 UTC

it's just, I'm not hunting new fan fiction in the wild or aggressively pursuing recommendations or whatever in those fandoms. But if someone I trust is going to throw that link in front of me, well...

*nod* That's it, completely. Either I don't have the energy or drive to hunt for stories, or there's too much fanon characterization floating around that I just don't want to deal with.

Okay. Now I'm curious. Not that I would, you know, pry, but - wait. I would totally pry. So, pray tell: new fannish avenue?

Well, I'm a tad embarassed to admit this, but it's possible I've acquired myself some software, and am in the process of attempting (attempting) to create a vid.

I'm just going to go and hide my shame now, for I fear the ending to this will not be amazing.

thefourthvine August 31 2006, 16:58:39 UTC

Yay! You're starting to vid! That is wonderful. And, yeah, I'd imagine it'd be really hard to learn (notice I've never tried), but - you'll get it. I'm looking forward to seeing your work.

(And I'd totally offer to vid beta for you, except that I'd be a sucky vid beta, and my understanding is that you can get really good ones easily for vids. But if you ever want me to for whatever reason, I'd be as happy to check out your vid rough drafts as I am to beta your stories.)

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nessreader August 29 2006, 18:32:21 UTC

Now's a golden opportunity to thank you for my latest obsession, dS fic, which is eating my life. While I loved the canon for years - (you said in your "Fandoms 4thVine has Loved" that you hadn't watched the TV show; have you by now?) - getting hooked on RayK stories is just consuming me right now. *sigh*

I started out reading Trek fanzines posted by snailmail - how else to get them? - in the 1980s. Am a dinosaur.

ps: activity mostly means reading a lot, writing insufficient LoCs, or passing on http:links for me. And I wrote some quite remarkably shite fanfics in my littlest fandom, simply because not enough other writers existed there. When in a big fandom, I feel there are enough and much better people producing fanwork.

nessreader August 29 2006, 18:42:22 UTC

getting hooked on RayK stories is just consuming me right now.
and it's Your Fault

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 19:01:42 UTC

Now's a golden opportunity to thank you for my latest obsession, dS fic, which is eating my life.

*beams*

It is one of the two fandoms of my heart, to which I shall ever be faithful. So it does me good to hear that another person has seen the light.

you said in your "Fandoms 4thVine has Loved" that you hadn't watched the TV show; have you by now?

Well, for me, the answer to that question is always going to be "sort of" with any TV series, because I just - it takes a lot for me to sit down with one episode, and there are like a billion for every single show ever.

But I have seen many episodes in seasons three and four, which for me is an impressive commitment. And eeeee! They are better than I'd hoped and slashier than I'd dreamed.

I started out reading Trek fanzines posted by snailmail - how else to get them? - in the 1980s. Am a dinosaur.

I consider you impressively resourceful. (Which, you'll note, sounds much better than "dinosaur," unless your target audience is boys aged 2-8.) Lord knows I could never have found fandom ( ... )

nessreader August 29 2006, 19:14:51 UTC

Young Americans *WB teensoap, v embarassing, like Smallville, great chemistry, rotten dialogue*
The cast was:
Ian Somerhalder (pre guesting on Smallville and season1 Lost)
Kate Bosworth (preOrlando)
Kate Moennig (pre L Word)
I was crushing on Kate Moennig, who was playing a crossdressing girl infiltrating a boys prep school for inadequately explained reasons. It was addictive.

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syredronning August 29 2006, 18:34:44 UTC

Looking at my personal percentages, it should be 96% Startrek Original and the rest divided between the others. But I didn't want to check only one box *g*

Re in fandom - I'm a trekkie since about 1977, but in online-fandom only since 2002...

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 19:23:04 UTC

Well, on the one hand, if you've only got one love, then one box is all you need. But it sounds like you do have a few other loves; they're just, you know, very very secondary ones.

Re in fandom - I'm a trekkie since about 1977, but in online-fandom only since 2002...

You picked "more than 20 years," then, right? Because being in the fannish community counts, online or off. (I fully appreciate that there is indeed Fandom Without Internet, even if I myself couldn't manage to be in it.)

And, wow. You're coming up on your 30th anniversary in your primary fandom. I think you need to hold a party. Possibly you should even register for gifts.

*impressed*

syredronning August 29 2006, 19:33:07 UTC

Nope, didn't pick "more than 20 years" because I somehow thought only being in a community counted :/ And I was never fanclubbing or anything.

You're right, I should celebrate next year :))))) But for a TOS trekkie, that's quite an average age, I fear. At my one US K/S convention, people stood up and talked about how they were there in the sixties and in contact with Gene Roddenberry and the actors and all...

thefourthvine September 3 2006, 11:35:02 UTC

Well, in general I think people know when they started to be fans, which is I've been reluctant to define it. I mean, I can recognize the period of my life when I was a fan-in-waiting; I wrote fan fiction (OMG so terrible), I obsessed, but I hadn't quite connected the dots. And then I did connect the dots: the fanworks and the fannish community and the fannish behavior. And that's the point when I think I entered fandom. So, you know, really what I'm looking for is - when do you think you got here?

At my one US K/S convention, people stood up and talked about how they were there in the sixties and in contact with Gene Roddenberry and the actors and all...You know, that's kind of terrifying to me, and kind of enthralling. But mostly I guess I'm glad to know that you never grow out of fannishness. (But I'm trying to imagine, like, a 30-years-on convention of - what? DS fans? I don't know what kind of fandom has that longevity anymore; we're all so quick to move from fandom to fandom these days. The fandoms that survive do so by ( ... )

musesfool August 29 2006, 18:35:17 UTC

Okay, I clicked 1-2 years even though I have been in HP for nearly four, but I no longer consider it my dominant fandom. That would be Firefly (or would have been until about two weeks ago), which I was in when it was airing, but then sort of stopped being active in it until last May or June when the advance screenings of Serenity appeared, so... a year and a few months there.

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 19:29:43 UTC

That would be Firefly (or would have been until about two weeks ago)

Well, but wait. That sounds like Supernatural (Since that's what hit you a few weeks ago, right?) is actually your dominant fandom now. (Pretty soon I'm going to be the only one not in SPN. *looks pathetic* I hope you will all send me postcards from the cool side of fandom.)

musesfool August 29 2006, 19:38:43 UTC

Well, yes, Supernatural. But I am still tentative about saying Firefly isn't primary anymore, because I still read and talk and write. I'm just in the New! Shiny! Fandom! phase with SPN, which will hopefully survive new episodes when they finally arrive. *g*

Pretty soon I'm going to be the only one not in SPN. *looks pathetic* I hope you will all send me postcards from the cool side of fandom.

That's how I feel about SGA, which you are in, so...

and there is good gen in SPN, though I'm afraid even the gen is kind of wincesty in the way the show is highly slashy

thefourthvine September 3 2006, 11:50:13 UTC

I'm just in the New! Shiny! Fandom! phase with SPN, which will hopefully survive new episodes when they finally arrive.

Soon, right?

I actually think this is the reason there are relatively few people reporting that they're in the earlier stages of a fandom; it takes us a while to realize we've switched providers, so to speak.

That's how I feel about SGA, which you are in, so...

*waves to you from the Two Ships Passing in the Night*

and there is good gen in SPN, though I'm afraid even the gen is kind of wincesty in the way the show is highly slashy*sad ( ... )

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laurakaye August 29 2006, 18:36:39 UTC

Crap, I didn't read the instructions carefully enough! I only did the shows I'm currently writing, not the ones I'm currently reading. Which basically means, add DS to the read list for me, because it is my constant companion!

thefourthvine August 29 2006, 19:33:35 UTC

*nods*

DS just stays with you, doesn't it? It is the fandom equivalent of a soft warm blanket on a rainy day.

And, okay, I'll spare you further ridiculous metaphors. But know that I agree: dS is one of those fandoms you never truly leave.

And I will mentally notch up dS's count by one. But since other people are watching the results of this poll (like morgandawn, for BASCON stuff), you may also want to change your answers. Or, you know, not. I realize not everyone is as obsessive about getting poll answers exactly right as I am. (I tend to write essays in the comments, too. I am a chronic over-responder. It's sad, really.)