Fictional Fans

I seem to end up in the latter just by virtue of almost always picking up a new canon (and/or a new fannish interest that prompts me to check out the canon) years after the initial peak of the excitement. It's glorious when I start archive-binging and there is SO MUCH there, but sad when I've gone through and found all my favorite authors and there is barely anything new.

I wish there was a counterpoint to the Yuletide fan event push to add works to smaller fandoms, that encouraged people to write in currently-less-active but previously-popular fandoms.

There's also the large fandoms with smaller fandoms within them, where a particular movie or season or book series is a closed canon but the larger canon-verse is still growing. MCU-but-only-until-CATWS is one; 11th-doctor-and-companions is one; and so on. I appreciate that fan writing allows writers to choose their jumping-off point for the best character portrayal (and ignore or selectively add subsequent or contradictory elements).