What are "your" fandoms?

[melannen]

IT occurred to me that I keep asking people about "your" fandoms and characters and haven't every really asked what they are! So, what would you consider "your" fandoms right now, if you had to say? Tell us about them!


In theory I have a lot of fandoms because I never really leave any and always try to come back. But if I had to, right this moment tonight:

I have honestly not been consuming much canon this month, and I have been producing almost nothing. The fandoms I am reading the most in is MDZS/The Untamed, which I do really like, but also it's the fandom I'm in that's producing a firehose of fic this year, so that helps.

And I guess I've also been reading in something you could more widely call "superhero" fandom? But, like, Daredevil and Batman and Spider-man type superheroes - stories that focus more on street-level crimefighting and secret identity shenanigans than cosmic space aliens and having a clubhouse in a mansion (not that those aren't also good!) It's not really a fandom-fandom but I keep going to tags on AO3 that will bring me those kinds of stories, and thinking about them a lot.

I have also been keeping up with the new season of Buzzfeed Unsolved, and also reading new BfU/Watcher Media fics as they cross my AO3 filters, even though in theory I quit RPF fandoms years ago, oops. But my weakness was always RPF fandoms where the canon is just a tiny bit more magical realist and wacky than the real world, and BfU RPF has secret demons and talking hot dogs and reincarnated serial killer personalities! Also, the canon hits exactly the right balance between skepticism and wonder that I always look for.

And weirdly, when I think about "your fandom" questions this month, what keeps coming to mind first is Stargate characters, even though I haven't watched or read much Stargate in a long, long time. Maybe it's because I've been going back and looking at my old unfinished fic? Maybe I'm just feeling nostalgic deep inside. Maybe I should go back and read a bunch.

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[china_shop]

This is really easy to answer because I'm serially monofannish. My fandom is Guardian: it's what I'm writing in, what I read (when I read fanfic, which isn't often lately), and where my energy goes. I'll probably be here for a few years yet. :-)

[melannen]

I've been monofannish! Sometimes. Occasionally. Eventually I will finish watching Guardian and/or read the novel, I swear!

[china_shop]

LOL!

I've occasionally flirted with other (usually related) fandoms on the side, like when I wrote CanRPS when I was in Due South fandom, but by and large, I only have space for one fictional universe in my head at a time. (I haven't even tried the Guardian novel! I am all: the drama, the whole drama and nothing but the drama. *g*)

[melannen]

I tend to go through phases where I'm more-or-less monofannish, and then long stretches where I'm kind of "between fandoms" which is where I've been the last few years. I think part of the problem is that I read too much, so it takes a really large fandom that I am also super in love with to catch my attention for long enough, or else I run out of fic and start reading other places and get distracted! Those don't come around all that often anymore, although Good Omens managed it for awhile last year.

I write a whole lot more when I'm focusing on one thing though, that's for sure.

[china_shop]

*nodnod* That makes a lot of sense. I'm more of a producer than a consumer of fanworks (and am quite a slow reader), so Guardian is plenty active enough to fill my needs, and new fandoms only come around for me every 5 or 10 years. :-)

[doranwen]

I am very very much the same way! :D Will post more in a separate comment.

[alexseanchai]

I gotta write the not-over-a-season-old Miraculous Ladybug fandom tempt post. I really gotta.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I'm sorta dedicated to my AU of MCU, because I'm writing sorta slow (and have other AUs I dabble in time to time) and I've got story concepts yet for which to produce the fic.

I don't really give up fandoms. I'm also an inveterate crossoverist, which is how Naomi and Blair Sandburg have made cameo appearance in my MCU AU that has consumed me.

[writerkit]

In terms of my current fic reading, I'd say Magnus Archives and Sanders Sides. I have more trouble finding Sanders Sides fic because Analogical is *not* the popular ship. In Magnus Archives I'm not picky and I'll read whatever. (Well, I'm not super into crackfic. But whatever else.) I may have to write some Sanders Sides fic just to see if I can get some other people into the idea of Analogical college AU.

[tei]

Another, erm, monofan (?) here. Which, strangely, I still feel even though I a) occasionally read something in an "old" fandom if someone I'm interested in wrote it, and b) have recently written fic for fandoms that are not The Fandom I am In. So I don't actually know why I feel so strongly that I am "in" one fandom (Hannibal) and not "in" others, when I think other people who identify as polyfannish might have the same level of engagement that I have with, for instance, Killing Eve (I am watching it, posting about it when I watch it, and have written fic for it) would characterize themselves as "in" that fandom too.

[beatrice_otter]

I'm very polyfannish, but somehow recently I've been circling back more and more to the fandoms of my childhood--Star Wars and Star Trek.

[graveexcitement]

Danganronpa, Zero Escape, and Boku no Hero Academia are the ones I’d consider most consistently “my” fandoms these days. I’m not always reading them but I circle back around to them relatively frequently. Danganronpa especially, as that’s stuck around in my mind for ~4 yrs now; it’s also the fandom I’ve written for most frequently in the last 4 yrs.

Hollow Knight is my newest fandom; we’ll see if it’s a passing obsession or a love with more longevity.

(MDZS is a fandom that I definitely liked and was obsessed with for a while, but wouldn’t consider it one of “my” fandoms currently because rn all I usually do is RT fanart on twitter and read the like, 2 fics i’m still invested in when they update.)

[pensnest]

I'm pretty much monofannish, and I'm not quite sure what it takes for me to get into a fandom, but I know that I only consider myself a part of it if I *write* in it. So my only fandoms so far have been Star Trek:The Next Generation, and popslash. I would still be part of popslash fandom if there were a popslash fandom still to be part of! I suppose, to be fair, I've also been writing quite a bit of Adam Lambert, usually paired with Lance Bass, because of course!

I do read quite a few others, quite often related to books I've known and loved for many years - eg Lord Peter Wimsey, Narnia, Vorkosigan stories, Jane Austen.

[fullupwithfire]

I'm in the same boat -- once I get into a fandom, I never really leave it completely. It's always hard for me to answer "in your fandom" questions for that reason, because even "what fandom am I reading fic in right now" can change day to day.

That said, trying to narrow it down some: The main fandoms I've been poking around and trying to write in lately is The Umbrella Academy and Bare: A Pop Opera, so that's sort of where my focus is even though I'm not really reading in either of them much.

Reading-wise, for the last day or two it's Suits, and before that was Buzzfeed Unsolved and Sanders Sides, because apparently I'm in a youtube phase right now. I'm dipping my toe into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend now that I've finished the show, and while I'm still trying to get to a point in The Magicians where I can start reading fic without feeling like I'm in for a million spoilers, I have enough feelings about the characters I forsee fic being a thing.

And then there's a whole ton more I could add on top of that if I wanted to go through the list of everything that I've dipped, but that defeats the point of narrowing it down!

[mindstalk]

Currently most active is Tolkien, mostly in reddit discussions and reading ever more obscure book material, or finding new details in the main books, and I'm subscribed to various AO3 Silmarillion-fic authors, and re-read them periodically.

My big block of in-my-head fanfic is largely Nanoha.

There's one big Madoka fic I follow, which got a new chapter just the other day.

I have a whole list of saved fics that I like to re-read, most often some Bujold (Byerly) ones or Doctor Who.

I tried getting into Railgun fics but I was mostly looking for Sisters pieces and there aren't that many on AO3.

Fic categories I have are Buffy, Bujold, Madoka, Nanoha, Narnia, Tolkien, Spice and Wolf, Shinsekai Yori (not many but I looked), Scrapped Princess, Twelve Kingdoms, Sailor Moon, Pern (I'd forgotten those), Star Wars (ooh, the Tatooine Cycle!), Macross Frontier, Earthsea, Harry Potter, Steerswoman, Yona. Plus some misc MCU, DCU, Good Omens (should maybe get its own category by now), others.

So I've read a lot and I'm open to a lot, though I'm not daily refreshing AO3 looking for new fics for much of anything.

Mostly gen, or fics that are mostly gen, though some smut too.

I have some GoT fic ideas I doubt I'll ever write, and I'm tempted to seek "better ending" fics but haven't.

I've had fic ideas for El Goonish Shive, mostly anticipating character meetings that Shive was getting to but not quickly enough.

Edit: well, I guess there's also yuri doujinshi fandoms!

[alias_sqbr]

Hmm! I'm not deeply into anything right now, and am sort of into lots of things.

Dragon Age has been a Thing for like...ten years, and seems to be trucking on, even if I'm not as into it as I once was. To a lesser extent this is also true of Pride and Prejudice and other Jane Austen novels.

Ficwise I seem to be mostly reading MXTX canons lately: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Scum Villain's Self Saving System, and Heaven Official's Blessing. I have an ongoing Heaven Official's Blessing fic I'm working on and have drawn art for all three.

I've been writing otome reaction posts for a while, and am vaguely in the Samurai Love Ballad: Party fandom. I'm still sort of in the Hakuoki fandom too.

And while I'm not super into the fandom (such as it is) I'm still slowly working on a fic for the dating sim Nameless.

I dip in and out of the MCU, especially artwise.

[tielan]

'Current' fandom (ie. one I'm still occasionally prodding at old fic like sore teeth) is MCU. But I'll answer according to whatever fandom characters happen to best suit my answers.

MCU and Stargate Atlantis are most likely to be the 'my fandom' answers, although 'my fandom' answers commonly include Pacific Rim and Stargate SG1. But PR had a very brief reign, and SG1 was quite a long time ago now...

[rattfan]

It's complicated. Or maybe not.
I'm not a Supernatural fan as such, but I have a mad crush on Crowley, King of Hell. Also Bobby Singer :-) I'm WareWolf on A03 if anyone is curious.

I am also a fan of The Walking Dead, before that, Babylon 5. Probably a lot of books as well, but I haven't got around to writing in their worlds.

[naath]

I'm not mono- anything...

right now I'd say Good Omens (a perenial favourite, but the new TV show was certainly nice), Vorkosigan, The Witcher, and Downton Abbey.

[ruuger]

I always have one primary fandom, which usually changes about 2 years after I run out of new canon, and then a 'harem' of secondary fandoms, which are my old primary fandoms. The main difference is basically just that I'm less discerning about the quality of fanworks (and other content) I consume for my primary fandom, and that my primary fandom is always buzzing around at the back of my brain while I need to be more active to be fannish about the secondary fandoms (revisiting the canon, for example).

My primary fandom at the moment is Capaldi-era Doctor Who, and my secondary fandoms are - in order of seniority - Babylon 5, The X-files, Buffyverse, and The Mentalist

(I have also had brief one night stands with other fandoms, such as Life on Mars, ER, Lord of the Rings and Heartbeat, where I read all the fic I can get my hands on in one weekend and then move on - this usually happens when I'm in-between primary fandoms)

[aurumcalendula]

On some level, I think vidding's my main fandom, if that makes sense? Other fandoms I've been really into lately are Killjoys, Leverage, and Vagrant Queen.

[adriennefae]

I usually have one main fandom that I think about all the time, both consume and create fanworks for, and am strongly emotionally attached to. My main fandom usually stays the same for at least a year, often longer. My current one is Star Trek Discovery, and it's been my main fandom since late 2017.

I also have other secondary fandoms which are mostly my former main fandoms that I'm still somewhat into, but I don't think about as much and don't come up with ideas for as much. Right now those are various other Star Trek shows, Doctor Who, maybe Harry Potter.

Then there are other things that I like and might consume fanworks for from time to time, but don't really make stuff for and don't actively engage in discussion of often.

[braveheartlove]

Lovely question! And yes I’m new. What better way to do some sort of intro, then to answer this question.

I’ve been thinking about this very question lately, and was hard for me to answer because “what counts as fandom?” I’ve enjoyed many shows, movies, and books over the years. I’d still consider myself a “fan” of them. But only three have stuck with me in various ways. One is a little know audio drama for kids, that I still listen to today. Then Doctor Who came along, and after watching both the Fifth and Ten Doctors, and a bit of the others, I read pretty much any thing I could get my hands on that was published for those doctors. Notice I said published. I didn’t really get into fandom, though I knew it existed, till my newest fandom came a long: Stargate SG-1. Yup a new fan of the show here. It was two years ago I was introduced to it and I haven’t looked back. Got me reading fan fiction, as well as writing it. Got me going into a story deeper than I ever had before. It’s been a fun journey, and I’ve learned a lot about myself in the process.

I also love hearing others talk about other fandoms, and why they love them. That’s why I’m here.

Welcome To My Ted Talk

[cuddyclothes]

I'm the same, although I'm consumed by fandoms for a long time. Right now I'm almost up to three years on Jeeves and Wooster. The best way I can describe my creative life is that I feel ridden by the subject. I'm really obsessive and explore everything that involves the subject. Especially because research is one of my absolutely favorite things. Having a historical fandom allows for tons of it. I've written a lot of fic and still have tons of ideas.

My original fandom was House MD. and I was in it for about five years. It was a large, active fandom. I was a major Hilson shipper. I wrote a lot of fic, including a huge serialized novel over a period of three years. I also wrote reviews of many of the post Season-5 episodes. There were tons of wonderful writers and fic.

Then I got into Supernatural, bought the first five seasons DVDs and watched some of them again and again and again. I wrote a lot of reviews for Seasons 8 and 9 but Season 10 was such a slop-fest I stopped. My fic was all crack. Partly because I was in a great comm, spn_bigpretzel, which is dedicated to humor. I lost interest around then. I still watched on and off but I didn't participate in fandom. Ironically, I met several wonderful fans in person and we became friends.

I was briefly obsessed with young James Spader and his season on The Practice and then Boston Legal. I didn't ship Denny and Alan at all. So I didn't read or write any fic.

Then I saw the movie Swiss Army Man. It absolutely blew me apart. I was OBSESSED with it for about a year and a half. There's no fandom to speak of. I wrote a "fix-it" for the ending and then wrote 10 fics continuing the story. I also got totally obsessed with Paul Dano. There were a bunch of us on Tumblr who were all obsessed with Paul Dano. Last year I saw him in the play "True West" opposite Ethan Hawke and met him after the show, along with a bunch of other fans. That kind of died out although if there were other fans I'd still be into him. I can't wait til Batman comes out and fans get obsessed with him all over again.

Since then I've been into Jeeves and Wooster. I read every.single.fic I could find. My personal fandom basis isn't the tv show, it's mostly the novels and the incredibly good fanfic. It was pretty dead but the fandom is definitely picking up.

[stefanyeah]

When it comes to fandoms I'm active in, I'm rather mono-fannish and still loyal to the, by now quite dead, Muse RPF fandom. The boys are just such pretty dolls to put into random situations. (Which is usually me turning one of them into some kind of supernatural being…) I sometimes toss someone else into the mix, but more and more it's original characters.

I sometimes look at other fandoms, but read maybe two or three things, write even less. :P I sometimes looked at the Sherlock tags on AO3 although I haven't even seen that last season.

And I'm tempted since many years to do some fan-ficking for Godzilla, but so far, I didn't get a the right idea to set my brain off. Strangely enough, I haven't really sought out any fanfic, though. But then, my reading habits are appalling these days. I just don't read anymore and that makes me kinda sad.

tltr; I sometimes try to widen my fandom horizon, but when it comes to writing and reading, I find myself rather bound to a certain British band…

[comet_scout]

The things I have recently been consuming a lot of fanfic for, that isn't just anything I find in AO3's recently posted, is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that's the main book franchise I've been reading, and Wreck-It Ralph;

Normally I would say my main fandom is Transformers but haven't really consumed anything related to the franchise for a while now, despite the new comic and cartoon, So I have been scavenging for new, and even re-exploring old, fandoms.

I actually forgot about the new season for bfU, should go watch it tonight//

[doranwen]

I get super obsessed with new fandoms and think only about them for ages, and then that love settles down into the perennial love coexisting with all the other fandoms. And that definitely has an effect on how much I write: I write more when I'm obsessed with one fandom, and when I'm not, then I mostly write exchange fic. Currently I haven't written much of anything in a bit, though the other week I revisited an old fav film, re-fell in love, and started a fic for it. Which has petered out to a WIP right now, lol. I am so not surprised.

Though I can get so overwhelmed with projects and life and slip out of reading fic much at all for a bit. Or only re-read old favs here and there. Currently I'm still processing metadata for the Yahoo Groups project, along with another side project, and have been re-reading old fav LOTR fic at night sometimes as the only real fannish activity (besides commenting on these posts). But a few weeks ago that was L&C fic. Or X-Men fic. And awhile before that Rookie Blue fic.

Full list of the fandoms I will happily go back to at any point:

Rookie Blue
Cybergeddon
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
FBI (though I'm actually waiting to read the new fics there till I can properly add them to my fic database, and I kinda want to get one of my two projects done first before I try to add a third to the mix - I can only really keep up with two projects at a time)
Alphas
The Matrix (I'll read anything from all three but I prefer ones that ignore movies 2 & 3)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
X-Men (original movies only, 1-3, nothing else!)
Lord of the Rings (mostly bookverse, but I'll read movie fic too, as long as it's not for The Hobbit films which I refuse to watch)
Smallville (seasons 1-3 only)
Women's Murder Club (TV)
Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
The Pretender (TV)
Rizzoli & Isles (but I'm pickier about these fics, as too many feel OOC to me)
Push (2009)

The rest I could read are so nonexistent/tiny that no one's writing for them, practically: Worldweavers, Earth Girl, Stick It, C-16: FBI, Flood, Tomorrow When the War Began (2010)…

[mommy]

I'm also in the "I never leave my fandoms" category, although I admit to occasionally picking up a new-to-me fandom. My latest fandom is Ace Attorney, which manages to be tonally cheerful even while the plots consist mainly of murder. I don't generally go for mysteries or for visual novels, so this has been an interesting experience all around.

[vivarocksteady]

If "latest" means "new" then welcome to Ace Attorney fandom!

I'm the type to hyperfixate on one fandom at a time, but I started dipping my toe in AA 11 years ago and it's the only fandom I've returned to over and over again. It is the one fandom I've found that never seems to die, a light that never goes out.

[mommy]

I finally started the first trilogy about a month ago, and I've been having a lot of fun with it. The fandom itself seems friendly, so hopefully I'll be around for a while!

[vivarocksteady]

Aah I'm so envious you get to play it for the first time! Man that would be such a good antidote for the times we're living in right now, lol.

The fandom IS very friendly and welcoming, but also diffused through a whole bunch of different platforms.
There don't appear to be any ACTIVE comms on DW, but there is a TON of great art and discussion on Tumblr, plenty of Discords, and the AO3 tags are always hopping.

The thing about AA is because it's such a huge canon with so many characters, there's so many different interests people have within the fandom. It's great because that's what keeps the fandom alive, but not so great if you find you're really into one pairing or whatever and that pairing happens not to be in fashion at the moment. (My mamegoma icon here is Phoenix and Edgeworth, if it's not obvious!)

But the kinkmeme is still going strong, I believe it is the longest running fandom kinkmeme of all? I keep tabs on it by following anon_press-- forgive me, I'm still re-learning how to do the DW coding on here. It's this comm: https://anon-press.dreamwidth.org/

They have a daily roundup of all the new posts and prompts. (Though I'd hold off on perusing the KM until you've finished the first trilogy, at least, if you want to avoid spoilers lol! At this point I think everyone considers the first trilogy like a basic history we were all taught in school!)

[mommy]

I knew a few people who were very into AA fandom when the Apollo Justice game came out, so it's been interesting seeing which plot points I've gotten spoilers on a decade in advance. For instance, I already knew that a parrot would have to be cross-examined and that there's a running trend of Maya being accused of murder. I did not know that De Killer was an actual character and not just a joke phrase.

Oddly enough, Wendy Oldbag is one of my favorite characters, purely because of thoroughly how she aggravates everyone when she's on the witness stand.

I'll definitely look into the kink meme once I finish up the third game. It's been years since I've dug around in one, but I'm sure I can get into the speed of things quickly enough. Thank you!

[highlander_ii]

I have a bunch that hang around a lot or that pop back up from time-to-time - MacGyver (the real one), House, Suits... but the freaking damned MCU has managed to chew the scenery here recently. I just sigh and keep going. Whatever. XD

[krait]

In theory I have a lot of fandoms because I never really leave any and always try to come back.

This is me! It's rare that I leave a fandom for good.

Fandoms I've been most active in lately, over a span of at least several months, include the Silmarillion/Lord of the Rings, Nirvana in Fire, Witcher games/novels, not Netflix) and Forgotten Realms.

Fandoms I've had at least a little reunion with lately-ish include Homestuck, Captive Prince, Yuri on Ice, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Ouran High School Host Club.

[castiron]

Depends on how you define a fandom -- just a work or world that you're a fan of, or a group of fellow fans of that thing?

I have plenty of things that I'm a fan of, though none to the "must glom every piece of canon and every related item" point these days. Tolkien, all Bujold's worlds, Phryne Fisher (both book version and screen version, which are really two different 'verses), Jane Austen's works, the MCU, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, plus a lot of small one-off things.

I haven't been in a fandom group since the days of the Bujold mailing list. No, wait, i take that back; I was in a Sherlock fangroup on Ravelry for a while, but I dropped out of that when I lost interest in the show (still haven't seen season 3, let alone 4).

Most of the fic I'm reading these days is MCU or Holmes, but in large part that's because I follow a few specific authors rather than a fandom tag. I'll read fics for a fandom I'm completely unfamiliar with just because I like the author's works in fandoms I know.

As for fic I write -- could be in anything. I don't have to be massively into the source; I just have to get a good idea.

[lannamichaels]

Every single time I have to answer the question of "what are my fandoms", I turn into something that was born yesterday and go "fandoms???? I don't know what that is? I'm not in any?" and can never ever think of a single one. And then I guess I look at my ao3 fandoms list and the stuff in my bookmarks and I guess those count. But, like, I read in so many fandoms I'm not "in" and just, idk. I have no idea why this question is hard but every single time, my brain entirely blanks on 22 years of internet fandom. Star Wars? Am I in that? Do I ever leave? I haven't seen the last god-knows-how-many-movies. But I had a fic open today from it????

What's a fandom :P

[flo_nelja]

I consider myself multifandom. It's rare I leave one (I need to be very disappointed by canon), and even if I haven't looked for fic in a long time for one of my old loves, I will still reblog fanart, read fic if I got an alert from an author I follow, offer them in exchange fics for my favourite ship, etc.

My main fandom these days in The Magnus Archives, but it also collaterally reawoke my interest for a few other horror fandoms I liked in the past.

[dancesontrains]

Current fandoms: going by what I'm writing in, the Borderlands series and Detroit: Become Human.

Borderlands is...fascinating. One of the most violent FPS video game series in the world, if not the most, but I got into it via the (hopefully soon available again) Telltale game 'Tales from the Borderlands'. And I fell in love with one Handsome fascist, and one twink who sticks the fascist's AI copy in his own cybernetics. There's also a decently racially/gender diverse cast - e.g. the latest installment, Borderlands 3, has a non-binary playable character - which I tend to need in a fandom.

Detroit: Become Human is probably the most problematic modern thing I like; but sadly I'm helpless in front of hot twink androids. It's basically 'what if robots could be alive and were oppressed like some human beings currently are??', the video game. I would recommend watching a Let's Play or a cinematic on Youtube rather than buying the game if the topic interests, as large parts are deeply offensive. E.g. androids wearing armbands and triangles reminscent of N*zi laws, android concentration camps later on, a Black Lives Matter analogy, that sort of thing. (The nice thing about the fandom is that most people dislike those elements of the game too, otherwise I would not be writing fic for it.)

I also love superhero comics (Marvel and DC) along with a bunch of the TV shows, cartoons and films based on them.

Harry Potter used to be a standby, but since the author finally came out as a TERF I have had little desire to engage with that fandom (I'm a trans man.) I may want to sometime in the future.

[polarissruler]

Ouch, the Fandom question. I'm that type of guy, who reads tropes instead of fandoms, so when I go looking for a fic I always feel like I jump in the deep. Also, I'm not that active in any specific Fandom (although I've been stuck on a Soul Cartel wave recently)... Maybe the Fairy Tail fandom is the only one where I have been more active.

[fabrisse]

Stargate SG-1 is one of mine. Buffy and Smallville were my starter fandoms. Glee was huge for me. And now it's Kingsman. Nothing else has struck me recently.

My other big thing is Yuletide. I love the challenge of writing for different fandoms that I wouldn't otherwise have a chance to write. Nothing warms my heart more than getting a comment on a fic I wrote many moons ago that's been found.

[gibbles]

I used to get into different 'main' fandoms every half-year or so but for some ungodly reason my brain has been stuck in Spongebob mode since May 2018. I don't even really create content for it anymore and it's really hard to find like...genuine, fannish content for it rather than joke fics or memes, so I'm sort of in this weird limbo...I'd consider myself in the 'fandom' of one of the actors from the spongebob musical but there's not much of a fandom to speak of, so it's more just that I occasionally draw fanart and try to see him whenever he's in shows...

I've started playing The Witcher 3 though and am way more captivated by the setting than I thought it would be (assuming beforehand that it was just like any run-of-the-mill murder fantasy world, but there's been a lot of interesting elements) so maybe I'll be getting into that fandom at some point.

And my very first fandom, Kingdom Hearts, is experiencing a small comeback due to the third game finally coming out, so even though I'm not really active I'm excited to see the new content that's coming around (:

[sholio]

I'm actually really happy for this thread because I hadn't been participating in these discussions since my fandoms are mainly small, or small subfandoms of bigger fandoms, and I didn't want to come diving in with characters no one has ever heard of. It is very reassuring to see that most people here are also in various small or smallish fandoms!

My current Big Thing is the Netflix MCU, especially Iron Fist - I fell really hard for the character dynamics in that one, but I really love this whole side corner of the MCU and still mourn it.

Agent Carter is my other big one; it's been my fandom of the heart for a while.

There's a rotating mix of other fandoms I drift in and out of, including Stranger Things, Dark Matter (cancelled sci-fi series), assorted small book fandoms (CJ Cherryh, Dresden Files, various Yuletide-sized book fandoms), and occasionally various other subfandoms of the MCU.

For a long time I was a serial fandom monogamist and really only ever had one fandom at a time. I'm not sure what caused my increasing ability to hold multiple fandoms in my head at once. It probably helps that most of the ones I've been really into for the last few years are technically various subfandoms of the MCU.

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Right now, my fandom is *Disco Elysium*, and I've been head over heels all year.

Euro-football is cancelled for the forseeable future, I no longer have the spoons to consume the Let's Player fandom that was my life 2011-2014, I didn't keep up with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure... It's honestly pretty rare for me to consume canons nowadays, and DE took me by deep deep surprise, both in its general quality and in my hunger for fandom for it.

[fred_mouse]

I think of myself as weakly fannish - I don't get the level of investment that I know that others do. I started as a general 'SF' fan at the university club level, and spent some years attending a Doctor Who club, but at most I was a producer of ephemeral meta (usually convention talks/panel presentations).

I entered online fandom via a couple of enabling friends (alias_sqbr has commented above, cupidsbow is less active than they used to be in the areas I frequent). One of those friends was writing/reccing in SGA, the other I think in multiple fandoms? So I read a lot of SGA. Then I found the Harry Potter fandom, and there was so much to unpack there. Since then, Check Please!, MCU, Good Omens, Narnia (but mostly Susan) are the ones I can think of.