Splitting your time between open vs closed canons

[g_uava]

For fandoms of open canons -
Pros: Activity whenever there's a new installment; more inspiration/ideas from the latest developments; potentially having more eyes on your fanworks and more fanworks by others to enjoy.
Cons: Anxiety over your speculations and fics being 'jossed'; anxiety over sharing controversial opinions/fanworks; pressure to formulate opinions on the latest developments on a weekly basis to stay active.

For fandoms of closed canons -
Pros: Being able to see the big picture of what canon is all about; less pressure to churn out reactions/fanworks to stay active; convenience of binge-watching.
Cons: Less activity; fewer engaged fans as people start drifting away to new canons.

How do you divide your time?

Comments

[melannen]

My ideal is the kind of canon that isn't closed, but that only gets a new installment every couple of years - so, book series and movie series. you get the excitement and fresh blood! I also get time to actually write something before the new installment comes out! (This is why I pretty much dropped MCU as a writing fandom when they started releasing multiple movies a year.)

I tend not to be active in fast-moving open canons like TV shows, if only because I can't keep up with canon very well. (Although in these days of an entire season dumping at once and then a long wait for another one, it might work better for me? I don't even seem to have the time to watch one whole netflix season before the next one shows up, though.)

[finch]

I follow Stephen Universe and the way Cartoon Network releases them it does work almost more like a movie every few months - a week of new episodes followed by nothing. And boy oh boy does the fandom take that and run with it. XD

[g_uava]

I also get time to actually write something before the new installment comes out!
Yea, and the longer/more complex the fic, the more time needed. With planning, writing, canon review and editing, even a 10k fic could take 3 months (quarter of a year) to write.