Not very fandom-active these days; taking in new stuff (the last ones were Star Trek Discovery, because Star Trek, and The Good Place, because I needed to disconnected and got extremely lucky) and sometimes posting meta-lite about it, but without the fanfic bug on, or being part of an active writing community, it feels... passive, I guess.
I'm curious because I miss fandom. I'm not fannish about any new shows at
the moment, but feeling nostalgic even for the wanks. Okay, not for the
wanks--but everything else.
Yeah, me too. Some of it is certainly nostalgia, but maybe it might be worth getting into things again. The DW/LJ scene seems, though, quiescent at best. I know AO3 has fulfilled is archival mission, but where is the action nowadays, so to speak, in terms of challenges, discussions, etc? (and, I guess, wanks)
Shadowhunters and Black Lightning are my big focus right now.
I started watching Shadowhunters in part because I heard Cassie was unhappy with how the show was doing it, which meant that they were fixing some of her crap. And then I fell in love with Izzy, Magnus and Alec (in that order). Magnus and Alec's relationship has blossomed beautifully, and the show finally started getting better about showing us their relationship on screen than just implying it. And in season 2 Clary finally starts getting to be a real person. Clary and Izzy's friendship is also really refreshing. This show really does a great job at illustrating the awesomeness of found/made families.
Black Lightning is the superhero show of my heart, with an actual honest to fuck bulletproof lesbian (out and happy and accepted by her family) character. The entire Pierce family is great, and we get to see how much they love and admire and trust each other but it never feels corny or fake. I love watching Jefferson struggle with coming back to superheroing and trying to balance that with his 'regular' life. And on the other hand there's Anissa who is just discovering her powers and going through all the thrilling & scary feelings that brings up. The show deals directly with some of the most intense issues of our time (police violence toward black people, for example) without feeling heavy-handed or like it's just giving lip-service to it. Just fantastic.
I'm enjoying Shadowhunters a lot, honestly. Like the first season is...not brilliant, but it's got potential and the characters like Izzy, Magnus, Alec, Maya and Luke are really likable and interesting. Season 2 was split into two parts, a & b. 2A was better than s1 but not amazing, 2B was a HUGE improvement and the show really found itself there. They're short seasons and there are good things along the way so it's worth watching all of it. And in 2B when Clary (the supposed lead character) finally gets some proper characterization besides oddly competent wide-eyed ingenue it lifts the quality of the entire show.
I was at Escapade (the fancon) the other weekend and some of the other women in the Shadowhunters panel said they saw parts of 2B before the rest and that gave them the motivation to catch up because they knew it would pay off. So you might try that.
I'm not sure where the fandom hangs out really, though I follow a few gif purveyors on tumblr.
Apparently part of fandom's still on LJ/DW, at least those who answered this post anyway. Never made the move to tumblr because the blinking hurts my eyes, my eyes....
I've hovered around the edge of Avengers, curious, but outside. Took a poke at X-Men: First Class, but I was kinda burnt out, writing-wise.
Viewing-wise, I'm getting into Counterpart, but mostly for J. K. Simmons' acting. I love his kind, our-side-of-the-rift, moral character.
Ahhh, this is an unexpectedly difficult question, because I don't currently have One Current Fandom that eats all my time and interest the way I did back in the HP days.
I'd say that right now, the closest thing I've got to an active fandom is Yuuri! On Ice, since that's most of my fanfic-reading and fanart-browsing activity. I really ought to start doing YoI fic recs, considering. Aside from throwing a few thoughts onto an anon meme about it, so far I haven't been writing for it, and I've actually been having ~feelings~ about Loveless and poking around in a couple of old WsIP from my Loveless days.
I still think about Homestuck a lot, though I'm not playing Hiveswap and thus don't know who all these new characters are (but the fanart is cute). I still pay some attention to Fullmetal Alchemist and Gundam Wing and a few other old fandoms, too; I seem to be having a Feelings resurgence for some of them, maybe because there's not a lot else to get excited about. Still reading SF/F, too, of course (I need to finish the latest Foreigner book!) and also following a couple of original M/M fics (though I've fallen behind in the last couple weeks).
I don't know if I can describe what attracts me to a fandom! That's a question I ask myself every now and then, especially when I bounce off of a canon that seems like something I'd enjoy. (Force Awakens being one of them - I saw it twice, thought, 'that was an enjoyable movie,' and yet walked away without the smallest ounce of fannishness about it.) It's probably a complex tangle of factors, way too many for me to confidently identify them or rank by importance. All I can say is very general things: complex characters who struggle and interact with other characters on multiple axes, themes that appeal to me on both the id-level and the 'well-crafted narrative' level, stories that make me want more of the story without leaving too many gaps.
...So, what fandoms have you been hanging around in lately?
I'm mostly doing the nostalgia thing, re-reading old fics, tinkering with the occasional SGA fic that I don't finish and don't post... did SGA Santa when it revived.
Got into Gatchaman actually, mainlining it a year ago. Planned to write fic for it, but then was up to my eyeballs in work/school. Had trouble finding fics I liked in the fandom without a guide or rec-list. I spammed a friend's journal about it (probably bored her, because while she had *some* interest in the fandom, it wasn't much) exploring the character arc.
As far as where I'm fandoming lately, well, I'm still mostly DW-based. I made myself a Tumblr (and then lost the password, and then remembered it) but I don't post there, I just look at pretty fanart. If I ever did post there, I'd probably just post links to DW posts; I'm Not Into the Tumblr format as a place to interact. I only caved enough to make an account because, well, fanart!
Since a lot of my fandom interest is spread over a number of older, less active fandoms now, I find anonimanga and fail_fandomanon useful for finding the, like, two people on this site who still want to talk about Loveless. :D Probably I shouldn't admit that I'm there, but I'm too LJ to take anonymity in fandom very seriously. :D
Which reminds me that I want to see if I can track down someone from Loveless fandom and convince them to mirror their old Loveless LJ comm to DW... Hmm.
I'm actually doing fandom things recently, in the teeny, tiny Machineries of Empire fandom. They're based on yhlee's books-- the first one is Ninefox Gambit-- and he's running a dw-based game based on them (hexarchate_rpg). This hooked me, because I am sometimes a fandom person but I am always a game person.
The fandom pushes a lot of the same buttons as Cyteen, so I think you might enjoy it, if you can deal with the size.
The non-tumblr parts of the fandom are mostly in Discord chat, as far as I know.
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I'm still in SGA. romancingmcshep is on again. It always surprises me that there are still people around who want to participate (but it makes me very happy)
I've picked up Mycroft/Lestrade from Sherlock(BBC) and Venom(movie). And I'm keeping them.
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Date: 2018-03-05 07:16 pm (UTC)Not very fandom-active these days; taking in new stuff (the last ones were Star Trek Discovery, because Star Trek, and The Good Place, because I needed to disconnected and got extremely lucky) and sometimes posting meta-lite about it, but without the fanfic bug on, or being part of an active writing community, it feels... passive, I guess.
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Date: 2018-03-05 08:05 pm (UTC)I'm curious because I miss fandom. I'm not fannish about any new shows at the moment, but feeling nostalgic even for the wanks. Okay, not for the wanks--but everything else.
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Date: 2018-03-05 08:09 pm (UTC)I started watching Shadowhunters in part because I heard Cassie was unhappy with how the show was doing it, which meant that they were fixing some of her crap. And then I fell in love with Izzy, Magnus and Alec (in that order). Magnus and Alec's relationship has blossomed beautifully, and the show finally started getting better about showing us their relationship on screen than just implying it. And in season 2 Clary finally starts getting to be a real person. Clary and Izzy's friendship is also really refreshing. This show really does a great job at illustrating the awesomeness of found/made families.
Black Lightning is the superhero show of my heart, with an actual honest to fuck bulletproof lesbian (out and happy and accepted by her family) character. The entire Pierce family is great, and we get to see how much they love and admire and trust each other but it never feels corny or fake. I love watching Jefferson struggle with coming back to superheroing and trying to balance that with his 'regular' life. And on the other hand there's Anissa who is just discovering her powers and going through all the thrilling & scary feelings that brings up. The show deals directly with some of the most intense issues of our time (police violence toward black people, for example) without feeling heavy-handed or like it's just giving lip-service to it. Just fantastic.
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Date: 2018-03-06 01:22 am (UTC)I was at Escapade (the fancon) the other weekend and some of the other women in the Shadowhunters panel said they saw parts of 2B before the rest and that gave them the motivation to catch up because they knew it would pay off. So you might try that.
I'm not sure where the fandom hangs out really, though I follow a few gif purveyors on tumblr.
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Date: 2018-03-06 02:23 am (UTC)I've hovered around the edge of Avengers, curious, but outside. Took a poke at X-Men: First Class, but I was kinda burnt out, writing-wise.
Viewing-wise, I'm getting into Counterpart, but mostly for J. K. Simmons' acting. I love his kind, our-side-of-the-rift, moral character.
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Date: 2018-03-05 09:52 pm (UTC)I'd say that right now, the closest thing I've got to an active fandom is Yuuri! On Ice, since that's most of my fanfic-reading and fanart-browsing activity. I really ought to start doing YoI fic recs, considering. Aside from throwing a few thoughts onto an anon meme about it, so far I haven't been writing for it, and I've actually been having ~feelings~ about Loveless and poking around in a couple of old WsIP from my Loveless days.
I still think about Homestuck a lot, though I'm not playing Hiveswap and thus don't know who all these new characters are (but the fanart is cute). I still pay some attention to Fullmetal Alchemist and Gundam Wing and a few other old fandoms, too; I seem to be having a Feelings resurgence for some of them, maybe because there's not a lot else to get excited about. Still reading SF/F, too, of course (I need to finish the latest Foreigner book!) and also following a couple of original M/M fics (though I've fallen behind in the last couple weeks).
I don't know if I can describe what attracts me to a fandom! That's a question I ask myself every now and then, especially when I bounce off of a canon that seems like something I'd enjoy. (Force Awakens being one of them - I saw it twice, thought, 'that was an enjoyable movie,' and yet walked away without the smallest ounce of fannishness about it.) It's probably a complex tangle of factors, way too many for me to confidently identify them or rank by importance. All I can say is very general things: complex characters who struggle and interact with other characters on multiple axes, themes that appeal to me on both the id-level and the 'well-crafted narrative' level, stories that make me want more of the story without leaving too many gaps.
...So, what fandoms have you been hanging around in lately?
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Date: 2018-03-06 02:29 am (UTC)I'm mostly doing the nostalgia thing, re-reading old fics, tinkering with the occasional SGA fic that I don't finish and don't post... did SGA Santa when it revived.
Got into Gatchaman actually, mainlining it a year ago. Planned to write fic for it, but then was up to my eyeballs in work/school. Had trouble finding fics I liked in the fandom without a guide or rec-list. I spammed a friend's journal about it (probably bored her, because while she had *some* interest in the fandom, it wasn't much) exploring the character arc.
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Date: 2018-03-07 03:33 am (UTC)As far as where I'm fandoming lately, well, I'm still mostly DW-based. I made myself a Tumblr (and then lost the password, and then remembered it) but I don't post there, I just look at pretty fanart. If I ever did post there, I'd probably just post links to DW posts; I'm Not Into the Tumblr format as a place to interact. I only caved enough to make an account because, well, fanart!
Since a lot of my fandom interest is spread over a number of older, less active fandoms now, I find
Which reminds me that I want to see if I can track down someone from Loveless fandom and convince them to mirror their old Loveless LJ comm to DW... Hmm.
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Date: 2018-03-06 04:02 am (UTC)The fandom pushes a lot of the same buttons as Cyteen, so I think you might enjoy it, if you can deal with the size.
The non-tumblr parts of the fandom are mostly in Discord chat, as far as I know.
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Date: 2018-03-06 10:23 am (UTC)I'm star wars-y now. Mainly sequel-based, but I have room in my heart for original trilogy. MCU - Clint Barton and/or Bucky Barnes based.
What I'm all about these days is lego. If there's a fandom, I'm not actually in it. I just do my own thing. (which, lego-wise is mostly kylux)
I still keep Inception and 00q on my radar, peripherally at least.
And hi. I was just thinking about you the other day.
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Date: 2019-01-22 03:37 pm (UTC)I've picked up Mycroft/Lestrade from Sherlock(BBC) and Venom(movie). And I'm keeping them.
:)