Fandom memes
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trobadora's Fandoms Poll. Because, poll.So I am borrowing it. It's been too long since we've had a good poll!
Because whether you're new to my flist, or you've been around for a while and have fallen into new fandoms along the way, I'm curious what other fandoms we share. So here, have a long - very long - list of tickyboxes!
(You don't have to be currently active in a fandom to check it - so long as you retain some degree of interest, or feel a sigh of nostalgia, that's enough.)
And please treat the poll results as a friending meme - find other people who tickied the same tickies! Make friends!
Are you in this fandom?
*Manga fandom in general
20 (22.7%)
*Comics fandom in general
25 (28.4%)
*History/Mythology fandom in general
34 (38.6%)
*SF fandom in general
64 (72.7%)
*Slash/Transformative fandom in general
56 (63.6%)
Arthurian Legend
30 (34.1%)
Barbara Hambly
10 (11.4%)
Buzzfeed RPF
5 (5.7%)
Check Please!
19 (21.6%)
Community
13 (14.8%)
Daniel Pinkwater
4 (4.5%)
DC Comics
16 (18.2%)
Deadpool movies
11 (12.5%)
Diane Duane
25 (28.4%)
Discworld
43 (48.9%)
Doctor Who (Assorted)
33 (37.5%)
Dorothy Sayers
26 (29.5%)
Dragonball
4 (4.5%)
Dresden Files
24 (27.3%)
dueSouth
26 (29.5%)
From Eroica With Love
7 (8.0%)
Good Omens
44 (50.0%)
Guardian | 镇魂
14 (15.9%)
Harry Potter
41 (46.6%)
Highlander
22 (25.0%)
Homestuck
12 (13.6%)
Imperial Radch
33 (37.5%)
J. R. R. Tolkien
38 (43.2%)
Les Miserables
22 (25.0%)
Leverage
31 (35.2%)
Mad Max: Fury Road
30 (34.1%)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
51 (58.0%)
Marvel Comics
25 (28.4%)
Muppets
15 (17.0%)
Murderbot
28 (31.8%)
Naruto
9 (10.2%)
Nimona
8 (9.1%)
Pacific Rim
25 (28.4%)
Patricia McKillip
11 (12.5%)
Pirates of the Caribbean
18 (20.5%)
Ranma ½
5 (5.7%)
Red Dwarf
11 (12.5%)
Rivers of London
30 (34.1%)
Roger Zelazny
12 (13.6%)
Rosemary Sutcliff
12 (13.6%)
Saga (Comics)
11 (12.5%)
Sagas (Icelandic)
12 (13.6%)
Sherlock Holmes (assorted non-BBC)
35 (39.8%)
Star Trek: TOS
33 (37.5%)
Star Wars OT
28 (31.8%)
Star Wars ST
25 (28.4%)
Stargate Atlantis
36 (40.9%)
Stargate SG1
31 (35.2%)
Temeraire
26 (29.5%)
The X-Files
15 (17.0%)
Ursula Le Guin
29 (33.0%)
Ursula Vernon
32 (36.4%)
Venom movies
20 (22.7%)
Vorkosigan Saga
39 (44.3%)
(These were pulled from my AO3 tracked tags, my AO3 written-in tags, my DW tags, and my WIPs folder.)
china_shop also linked to a list of pre-DW fandom memes, and I am stealing The Top Five Reasons I Haven't Read Your Story because it seems very useful.The Top Five Reasons I Haven't Read Your Story
1. Everything you've posted about it in your journal has been about your writing process and your feelings, but you haven't posted anything about why anyone other than you might want to read it.
2. You haven't posted about it in your journal at all, so I didn't know it existed.
3. You've successfully convinced me that your story will be amazing and brilliant (and/or long), and I don't have the energy to read anything but <10,000 word trashy braincandy right now.
4. It's in a fandom or pairing that I'm not just not in, I'm actively avoiding. It's not you, it's me!
5. Sorry, I'm currently spending all my spare time reading everything ever posted to AO3 in this pairing I have never before mentioned I was interested in and that nobody I know writes for. I'll get back to you when that's done.
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and 3 means that a lot of what I do click is short enough I may as well finish it.
all the really terrible stuff I find doing 5, but none of those are your* stories!
*your=generic dw friend
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Yeah, in order to have chosen DW as your main social media, you have to have a certain level of fluency with written language, I think. Which doesn't necessarily translate as skill at writing stories, but it usually at least means you've got a handle on things like paragraph breaks being useful, and that counts for a lot sometimes. But I think I am better than some people seem to be at filtering out the bad/boring before I even click? I think part of it is just that I'm not all that picky, so my range of acceptable characterization, say, or plot pacing, is pretty wide. But also not being picky actually means, paradoxically, that I can be pickier, because I'm much less likely to be desperate enough to try something that has warning signs of badness just because there's no better options. Also, long experience and knowing the community help!
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So I'm not really sure what to tickybox, especially if it is being a friending meme and I don't really talk about most of these on the regular. ;P
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Yeah, if you use the strictest definition of "in", I'm probably not really in any fandoms at all right now, because there's nothing I'm feeling really focused on (or particularly motivated to re-experience canon for.) So for my personal answers I was using a broader definition that meant more like "if someone else started talking about this, I would be interested and want to encourage them". But I know a lot of people don't do fandom that way - there's a much narrower subset of things they're even that interested in at any given time. (Which is part of why this poll seemed so interesting!) The post I stole this from asked "Do we share this fandom" which was probably a better wording anyway, I was just to tired to notice when I wrote mine up.
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I'm always surprised at how much fandom there is for Riddle-Master! I mean, not a lot by any real measure, but there's a good more-than-a-dozen stories on AO3, and some of it isn't even yuletide! I wish there were more - I could see myself falling into that fandom good and hard if there was a steady enough community of people talking about it; I really love so many things about it, but there's so much openness for more there, too. I don't like what of her newer stuff that I've read quite as much as Riddle-Master and Forgotten Beasts of Eld and those older ones, though, which slows me down a little.
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I've read most of her novels, and stylistically the later ones are better, but Riddle-Master is what I keep coming back to, over and over.
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That's kind of what I meant by those options - even if you don't have any specific fandom you're looking at, you're still interested in hearing about or participating in the community. Honestly that's kind of where I am right now - there's no one fandom I'd deeply excited about, just a wider community I'm dipping in and out of. Most of the fandoms on this lists are ones that I've been super into in the past and still have nice feelings about, or that I wistfully hope I could be into that way sometime again. But I also think a lot of people are interested in more fandoms than they ever really get around to talking about on DW! I'm often surprised at who speaks up on DW posts when I talk about a fandom I haven't mentioned for awhile.
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I put it on the list on the basis that I have one fic up on AO3 that is literally one long "everybody's dead, dave" joke. :P
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What, the recs lists?
Yes, Dave, everyone is dead.
Not the newsletter comm!
They're dead, Dave.
Not the pairing comms? I love the pairing comms!
Everybody is dead, Dave.
Are you telling me the fandom's dead?
*exasperated noise*
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Sorry, I'm currently spending all my spare time reading everything ever posted to AO3 in this pairing I have never before mentioned I was interested in and that nobody I know writes for. I'll get back to you when that's done.
Haha, that sounds like me. *g*
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I was thinking a few weeks ago how I'd really like to see 2019's take on a few specific old/dead fandoms - I'd like to see how 2019 fandom tropes and trends treat Buffy for example. And I would trade any book on my shelf for more Dresden Files content, that's one where I'm bummed I got into it after the fandom was pretty much over.
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