Fandom Wishlist

[melannen]

Snowflake today is about making a fandom wishlist, and I had a little trouble with it, mostly because? Fandom is being pretty good to me right now! I can find plenty of the things I want from it. Fandom ♥

So most of the things I can come up with for a fannish wishlist are more "I wish I was better at dealing with that" or "I wish I had the skill/time/attention to make that", and that's not really the spirit of this prompt.

But I thought about it and threw together some wistful "if only" thoughts I've had lately.

1. More posts to fictional_fans!
2. Any fills for my fanart requests from Wrapping Paper this year
3. Some kind of resolution - or at least acknowledgement - on the whole "Fanlore editors are reposting other fans' works in whole to Fanlore without permission or notification and ignoring fans' attempts to control archiving of their works". It is really bad to have AO3, which is so strongly in favor of making sure everyone who wants to can control who sees their fanworks and when and where, and Fanlore actively working against that in the same org.
4. A way to easily download my whole AO3 reading history to a spreadsheet, since the app from last year is still down and I still don't understand logins well enough to scrape it myself.
5. Some kind of gathering place for fannish types to talk about coding. Like, most of these I've seen are aimed at specific projects, or ancillary to other projects, and I have neither the skill nor focus to feel like I belong there. Is there like a discord for people who want to be able to talk about stuff like throwing together bookmarklets and javascript toys for fandom, or running their own fansite or forum or wiki, all the way up to way more complicated stuff.
6. A fic where you know who your soulmate is the first time you touch them (or see them, or talk to them, or whatever.) Some people will never meet a soulmate, some people have only one, some have a few or a dozen. You though you didn't have one until you heard some friends talking about how it felt to meet theirs and realized that was just what you'd felt every time you met a new person your whole life???
7. Some kind of place where you can just throw out prompts and you don't care what fandom/pairing they are written in. Like Bulletproof Exchange is running now, where you write prompts but the filler can fill with any fandom or pairing? Like that but not an exchange because I'm too tired to do more exchanges. A kinkmeme maybe, if if could be active enough to actually get fills!
8. Somewhere I can play multiplayer Minecraft with other older fans! I have never played multiplayer and I'd love to and there's so much potential to make fannish stuff in it, but I don't really want to dive into the wider Minecraft community.
9. Fanfic recs from people on dreamwidth! Especially aimed at people who may not be super into the fandom, but it's just so good. (Also, more dreamwidth people to link their own fic on their dreamwidths, I don't use AO3 subscriptions heavily and I am always shocked at end-of-year roundups where I'm like, wait, they posted fic this year? Also I just miss the days when my reading list would be chock-full of good fic every day.)
10. I miss in-person fan meetups. I never even went to that many but I want to be in a world where it feels possible again.