What are "your" fandoms?
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fictional_fansIT 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.
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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Date: 2020-04-26 08:25 pm (UTC)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.