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fictional_fansAre you multi-fannish, or one fandom at a time? Same fandom forever, or switching them up?
I've always tended to be multi-fannish - sometimes there will be one main, but I'm usually reading in at least 3 or 4 at any given time. Pretty much been that way the whole time I've been in fandom (20 years now.)
I've always tended to be multi-fannish - sometimes there will be one main, but I'm usually reading in at least 3 or 4 at any given time. Pretty much been that way the whole time I've been in fandom (20 years now.)
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Date: 2018-04-03 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 05:03 pm (UTC)I rarely completely drop a fandom; it's just dormant for a while until I'm reminded of that good fic with that very specific thing I'm looking for. Or a gifset of that moment when a show brought me to tears.
I keep reading fic in older, mostly inactive fandoms, finding gems from before I was into those fandoms, and checking out the new stuff the kids are into these days.
Just because I don't watch Star Trek right now doesn't mean I don't want that Kirk/Spock huddling for warmth fic that just got posted.
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Date: 2018-04-04 05:23 am (UTC)This is a good description, and I resemble it. I love juggernaut fandoms, but they start to get a bit bland after a while. But a month (or two, or twelve) away, and suddenly I really want to know what's new. Particularly because some of my favourites don't get enough love, or I don't gel with the love that they get because other writers love them differently.
Right now I'm wishing more people wrote the sub-genre of "Susan Pevensie Takes Over".
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Date: 2018-04-08 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 05:24 pm (UTC)I'm reading right now mostly in various MCU subfandoms and a lot of small sf book fandoms and occasionally going on jags of nostalgia!reading in fandoms of old, and I have been reading YoI! fic despite not liking the canon (mostly because I can't stand the animation style) just because it's the only non-MCU fandom right now that's super-active that's hitting my comfortfic kinks.
I'm also sort of watching carefully as BBC!Les Mis revs up just in case Les Mis book fandom really wakes up again as a result.
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Date: 2018-04-03 06:48 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2018-04-03 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 06:31 pm (UTC)I mostly read stuff in exchange collections and stuff recommended by people I know. I write whatever is currently gnawing my brain.
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Date: 2018-04-03 06:48 pm (UTC)This bugs me.
I can drop in and out of fandoms with ease. Like, I'm not fannish about Disney's Brave per se, but I positively adore the fanworks I made for my Yuletide assignment, a Yuletide treat, and my sister's Christmas card. And I will fucking marathon AO3 in Miraculous Ladybug or Naruto or whatever, and then wander off for months. (Though ML may tempt me back momentarily, since I notice season two has hit Netflix!)
But mostly I'm in an original fic frame of mind lately. Where by "lately" I mean "the past few years". So I'll participate in
Compare that to my participation in Supernatural until the show fucking broke my heart. Like, seriously, stop by
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Date: 2018-04-03 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 10:25 pm (UTC)Other than that, I have a smallish secondary that I write fic in every so often which generally only has a few longfics updating at any given time, and I participate a lot in exchanges that result in me writing and receiving fic for either tiny fandoms or fandoms I was into years and years back but don't spend a lot of time in anymore.
Most of my new fic reading material at this point comes from diving other people's bookmarks on AO3, which gets me good quality from a pretty wide mix. I will read almost anything I'm familiar with the premise of in that context, but efffectively I read a lot of MCU that way lately.
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Date: 2018-04-03 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 11:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-04 01:36 am (UTC)Fortunately, while the feelings aren't nearly as intense, I do sometimes have secondary fandoms, and I also love fandom as a whole, and love a lot of stories that I'm not fannish about.
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Date: 2018-04-04 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-04 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-04 05:53 am (UTC)And actually the simile work even better for fics in progress, I have so many different fics from differents fandom on the stove... Some of them on a very slow, years long burn where the fire is suddenly turned babk up, some on them I whip up into shape very quick... and also some of them not even cooking anymore, just cold and somewhat dessicated at the back. XD
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Date: 2018-04-04 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-04 11:09 am (UTC)At present I also have a university degree, which is currently eating up most of my time and energy.
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Date: 2018-04-15 06:46 pm (UTC)