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: 2020-04-28 12:37 am (UTC)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.