fictional_fans | Discussion: How many fandoms do you have right now?

I tend to have one main fandom that eats up 85% of my fannish energy and then a bunch of smaller ones that split the remaining 15%. The smaller fandoms tend to shift around a lot (I'll fall madly in love with something and then totally lose interest a week later), while the main fandom will stick around for years and years.

Yeah, This is the same for me. I have a lot of smaller fandoms that I'm in for like a months or two tops, and then I'm done and onto something else (it's really important not to sign up for fests with these). And then a main fandom that's my thing for years. Though I also have a couple old standbys like LotR and Babylon 5, that I can go back to and be into at any time.

I collect and hoard fandoms like a dragon with treasure.

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.

I collect and hoard fandoms like a dragon with treasure.

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".

That sounds like me, the right fic (new or old) can get thespark going again easily.

I seem to go through phases where I will be In A Large Fandom (and also keeping track of other fandoms) and phases where I am Between Fandoms (keeping track of a few dozen large and small fandoms at about the same level of interest) and right now I am Between Fandoms and sort of missing having a main.

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.

Between Fandoms and sort of missing having a main

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Honestly, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to fully immerse myself in a fandom. I feel like I have all these things I used to be passionate about but don’t do anything to keep it going. I’m always looking for a new fix and being disappointed.

I'm multi-fannish to the point that I really can't answer when people ask me about my main fandom. I pick things up, but I don't put them down. I'm also not sure what constitutes 'having' a fandom or being in one.

I mostly read stuff in exchange collections and stuff recommended by people I know. I write whatever is currently gnawing my brain.

tbh rn I have zero fandoms.

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

yuletide,

once_upon_fic, and

jukebox_fest, maybe

fandom_stocking and

fandomgiftbox, and...that's my fannish participation. Which results in original fic, or reworkings of myths or fairy tales in an original-ficcish manner, as often as not.

Compare that to my participation in Supernatural until the show fucking broke my heart. Like, seriously, stop by

alexseanchai and check out my fic counts by fandom. Harry Potter was the same way but I wasn't nearly as prolific. Sailor Moon as a wee fan, too. I miss that.

Multi-fannish. I have a bunch of old fandoms that I love, but keep picking up new ones. I usually have 2-3 current ones I read voraciously and search out meta/ fanart/ etc for.

Entirely multifannish, although not to a terrible degree about any of them - I enjoy media and fanworks, but I came into fuller awareness of fandom during the Harry Potter ship wars, and so I don't think I've ever lost my caution about diving in so deeply so as to engage in broadsides of that nature.

Hypothetically I have a main fandom, but in the last couple of years it's shifted to revolving completely around human and total settinng AUs, which is great for people who like those things but not my cup of tea. So, effectively I don't read fic in my main anymore, just talk about it endlessly with my wife and write fic every few months and reread my old bookmarks.

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.

There are multiple things I'm interested in, usually, until something eats my brain for a few weeks or months.

I'm multi-fannish, and I pick up new (to me) fandoms at a rate of about one per year. Entering a large active fandom when the canon is new and fresh tends to be stressful for me, so I have a collection of comfy old fandoms that I cycle through while I play with whatever shiny new thing that caught my attention.

I'm extremely monofannish and don't tend to switch primary fandoms often at all. (I'm coming up on six years of my primary fandom being the Newsflesh books, and before this it was the Fruits Basket manga for nine years. O_O I can't recommend being super monofannish in a very small book fandom. >.>)

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.

Extremely multi-fannish, though I have a handful of The Big Ones that comprise the bulk of my fanworks over the years. But at present I'm as likely to be happily writing for a one-shot manga as long-sprawling game series, or whatever.

I'm kind of like a fandom stove. I've got a few pots bubbling up at once, but the temperatures and size of the burners vary. This might not be as good of a simile as I initially thought? 🤔

It is a very good simile actually, I'm pretty much the same...
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

Most fandoms have a sort of normal distribution of investment, where I get Very Into It for a while then it wears off but never entirely goes away. My one forever fandom seems to be Dragon Age but it's not always my main focus, it's just always a focus. Especially when a new game comes out, though that may not happen again ;_;

I generally have a main fandom, in which I am actively writing and have long projects going; a bunch of smaller fandoms in which I scribble bits and pieces now and then; and odds and sods here and there where an idea strikes the inspiration node in exactly the right way.

At present I also have a university degree, which is currently eating up most of my time and energy.

I'd have to say I'm multifannish, but that means different things now than it did back in archivists added things to a fandom and there was a mailing list for conversation. It currently means mostly writing in a specific AU of MCU, sometimes writing in one of my other AUs, and being game to follow recs in anything I can hum a few bars.

Discussion: How many fandoms do you have right now?

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