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chelseagirl) wrote2021-06-08 01:27 pm
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Day 5: Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.
When you're my age, that's easy. In high school my friends and I were in love with Star Wars -- by which I mean *cough* the movie now known as A New Hope. (The Empire Strikes Back came out when we'd already graduated, yikes! Special effects used to take a lot longer in the 70s-80s.) We used to buy 'zines at cons, and try to get different ones so we could trade them around. And we got a lot of our information from Starlog magazine, because no Internet.
I'm not sure what my latest fandom obsession is. I wrote four stories for The Alienist since The Angel of Darkness aired last summer, but a lot of that was out of unhappiness with where they left things. I think I've worked through my issues, and I'm not obsessing anymore. Lucifer is the show that's making me happiest, but I'm not ficcing for it; I read some stories last spring/summer, but haven't even done that lately.
In general: I'm more likely to engage with things that are historical, or somehow our world but not. I'm less likely to go for space opera or epic fantasy (I was also Tolkien-obsessed in high school. By the books. We had the Rankin-Bass and Bakshi animations, but I was not impressed by either.)
Day 6: What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
Anything that I'm in, because maybe someday I'll actually get kudos in three digits. ;-) My highest ever is 82. I know I'm a good writer, but I don't ever seem to write megafandoms or megapairings.
But seriously, I would love there to be a lot more fic around a Canadian feminist Western series that only got one season, Strange Empire. I think there was one story in Yuletide this year? I know three of us offered and requested it. They do some intriguing things in the first season, but they also dropped a serious last minute cliffhanger, and then there wasn't another season, and I want there to be all sorts of epic fic working out what happens next. But the one time I attempted a story myself, it just . . . eluded me.
When you're my age, that's easy. In high school my friends and I were in love with Star Wars -- by which I mean *cough* the movie now known as A New Hope. (The Empire Strikes Back came out when we'd already graduated, yikes! Special effects used to take a lot longer in the 70s-80s.) We used to buy 'zines at cons, and try to get different ones so we could trade them around. And we got a lot of our information from Starlog magazine, because no Internet.
I'm not sure what my latest fandom obsession is. I wrote four stories for The Alienist since The Angel of Darkness aired last summer, but a lot of that was out of unhappiness with where they left things. I think I've worked through my issues, and I'm not obsessing anymore. Lucifer is the show that's making me happiest, but I'm not ficcing for it; I read some stories last spring/summer, but haven't even done that lately.
In general: I'm more likely to engage with things that are historical, or somehow our world but not. I'm less likely to go for space opera or epic fantasy (I was also Tolkien-obsessed in high school. By the books. We had the Rankin-Bass and Bakshi animations, but I was not impressed by either.)
Day 6: What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
Anything that I'm in, because maybe someday I'll actually get kudos in three digits. ;-) My highest ever is 82. I know I'm a good writer, but I don't ever seem to write megafandoms or megapairings.
But seriously, I would love there to be a lot more fic around a Canadian feminist Western series that only got one season, Strange Empire. I think there was one story in Yuletide this year? I know three of us offered and requested it. They do some intriguing things in the first season, but they also dropped a serious last minute cliffhanger, and then there wasn't another season, and I want there to be all sorts of epic fic working out what happens next. But the one time I attempted a story myself, it just . . . eluded me.