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svgurl ([personal profile] svgurl) wrote2025-06-04 11:03 pm

multifandom questionnaire pt 1

I found this via [personal profile] vriddy: [personal profile] maevedarcy adapted a fandom questionnaire and made it more multifandom friendly - Questionnaire: 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirl.

I'm going to do it by parts, 12 at a time. :D

Current fandoms and personal connection:

1. How did you first discover your main fandoms?
My original main fandom was Smallville and I had always seen the ads on TV and I started watching a few seasons in because I love Superman and well, my sister was into it at the time, so I figured why not. I found Smallville fandom by chance when I was reading fic for other fandoms and then stumbled across Livejournal when I was googling Clark Kent/Oliver Queen, realized that there was very little fic, and decided I was going to write my own.

With the MCU, I watched The Avengers, started shipping Steve/Tony, and checked out what was out there. While I've read a lot of fic, I didn't start writing it until I began to participate in exchanges. It really helped me get out of my comfort zone.

I don't know if I have a "current" fandom but my main interest these days is 9-1-1, the procedural about first responders that is on ABC. It was one of those shows that had been on my "to watch" list and I'd seen some gifs on Tumblr and I finally watched it when it was seven seasons in.

#2-122. What was it about the fandom(s) that initially captured your interest?

With Smallville, it was definitely mostly about Superman and on a shallow note, I had a crush on Tom Welling. And as I said above, I got involved in fandom because barely anyone else was writing the ship I was newly into. It's funny - I got a comment on one of my Clark/Oliver fics a few days ago and that person was all "you're carrying this ship" and to be told that in 2025 is not what I would've had on my bingo card but it kinda delighted me anyway.

The MCU I got into because "The Avengers" was the big thing and once I found a ship I liked, I had to look for content. The timing was perfect too because Smallville had ended and while I was still into it, it was nice to have something fresh to grab my attention.

As far as 9-1-1, I'm hit or miss on procedurals but it always did look fun. When I found out that one of the main characters recently realized they were bisexual, it finally pushed me over to check it out.

3. Can you recall a moment when you realized you were more than just a casual fan?

Probably when I started writing all the fic? It wasn't surprising for me - I tend to get obsessive and am either all or nothing when it comes to ... anything really.

4. How has your interest in fandom evolved over time?

I still love it but I am more careful these days about how I participate. I got into all sorts of fandom drama during my first run and it's something that I try to avoid. I was young, but also old enough to know better and I definitely was more than a little naive. Nowadays, I prefer to stay on the edge and keep my circle close and tight.

5. Is there anyone in your life that shares your passion for fandom?

In my real life, no. That's what DW and Tumblr are for! I was really lucky that one of my mutuals on Tumblr, who I was friendly but not close to, does really love 9-1-1 too so I have had someone to talk with about my newest obsession. Otherwise, getting into a new fandom/ship, especially one as big, would've been more awkward.

6. How does your fandom inspire you in your everyday life?

Weirdly, I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm sure it has, especially since there are some things I have learned about via people I've met online but nothing stands out right now.

7.Does the fandom influence your personal style, hobbies, or interests?

No, it's probably the other way around. I've definitely been introduced books and media through fandom that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise, if that counts.

8. Can you share a personal story related to your fandom that you cherish?

I don't know how personal it is, but I used to have this one song that I specifically associated with Clark/Oliver - "Everything" by Michael Buble" - and then for my birthday, one of my Livejournal friends made me a fanvid to that song, when she didn't even ship them, and it literally meant everything to me.

9. What valuable lessons have you learned from being part of fandom?

Oh, plenty. I think it taught me the importance of not trying to force yourself to be something or someone you're not, because it will backfire. Being edgy for the sake of it is also not cool. Seems obvious, but it really isn't. Also, there are also tools to curate your experience and it is up to you to use them, more so now than ever.

10. Have you met any of your closest friends through a fandom?

No. My real life and fandom life are very separated (I'm private and paranoid), but I do have some people here and Tumblr that I've known for a long time and I have extra fondness for them in the same way I do about the people I see in real life.

11. Are there any rituals or traditions you enjoy before new releases related to fandom?

I don't think so. Sometimes, I like to refresh my memory of what happened before, with my favorite clips or reading some summaries, but I wouldn't say that's a tradition or ritual because I'm not very consistent.

12. If you could introduce someone new to fandom, how would you describe it to them

I'd probably say it's passionate fans who have come together over a shared love of a particular type of media and they enjoy spending time discussing, creating, and engaging in works about it. Depending on how that goes, I would try to explain fanworks and shipping and the like.
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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote2025-06-04 11:45 am
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[community profile] justmarried exchange is currently in the nomination phase, and I have been having trouble because they allow you to sign up with ten fandoms but you only can nominate seven. And my favorite marriage trope is the sedoretu, which is a specific type of poly marriage invented by Ursula K. LeGuin, and requires four people. Which means that I need to have foursomes nominated! (Although I can just go with a pairing and say "I love sedoretus, if you want to write this pairing as a sedoretu you can choose who to have be the other pair in the sedoretu.")

Anyway, the reason I have not nominated is that I am waiting to see what else got nominated to help me whittle down what I want to nominate, and I just checked the nominations and I think that [personal profile] tielan has nominated! (Thank you!) Because the BSG foursome I was going to nominate (Lee/Kara/Sam/Dee) has been nominated, and so has the Steve/Maria/Bucky/Natasha foursome in MCU fandom, and both are foursomes I have written as sedoretus for [personal profile] tielan before. Which means that not only is there someone interested in the same characters, there's someone who's probably going to sign up who is interested in sedoretus, specifically. That is really exciting to me! And it does free up some nomination slots.

Here are some nominations I am planning:

TGE: Maia/Csethiro/Csevet/Vedero (there are a bunch of TGE ships already nominated but they are all suuuuuuuper rare)

DS9: Sisko ships, Worf/Jadzia, Miles/Keiko/Kira/Bashir

TOS: Spock/Uhura and some foursomes (although someone on the Yuletide discord may be nominating sedoretus in this fandom, which would mean I don't have to nominate them and could free up a slot)

B5: John/Delenn, John/Delenn/Lennier, Delenn/Neroon, John/Delenn/Lennier/? (I don't know who I'd put with those three to complete the sedoretu--Anna, maybe? a Minbari OC?)

Peter Wimsey, sedoretu with Parker and Mary? Or Bunter? (Although I can't think of who would be the fourth in a sedoretu with Bunter, so I may just leave that as a poly threesome.

Rivers of London--I think just Peter/Beverly here, because I can't think of any sedoretus and ever since we learned that Nightingale was ace (in the novella Masquerades of Spring) that has completely killed any desire to ship him, for me. RoL is the only one on the list that's iffy, because much as I love it I'm not sure how much I'm into RoL + marriage tropes.

That's six, and with BSG taken care of I can look at some of my other fandoms for the seventh slot. Here are some options:

SW Legends, Han/Leia/Luke/Mara, Han/Leia/Lando, Lando/Luke/Mara. Han/Leia/Lando most properly belongs in SW OT, but that would mean using a second Star Wars nomination slot.

TNG: nobody's nominated this yet, and I can't think of any sedoretus, but I would probably do something like Picard/Guinan (my TNG rare pair OTP), Picard/Ro, Riker/Ro, Troi/Worf, and Data/Geordi

Random Harvest. Look, this movie is just so tropey and melodramatic it would be amazing to pile even more tropes into it.

 


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Hamster doin' his best in this big world ([personal profile] crantz) wrote2025-06-03 05:18 am

In retrospect, poor timing

I really need to have my eensy weensy breakdowns at times other than 5 am if I want to interact with another human being.

I couldn't even make a comic about it because I'd already made a comic about that exact situation already.

Anyway, the news is horrible (hate crimes, genocides), I have bad memories (no matter how old I get), and my province is on fire (and the only non-friend acknowledgement I've seen about it was an american warning the US-only about our smoke).

So this isn't a total whiny bummer and a sign I REALLY need to start keeping a paper diary again, I discovered that in my old computer files that I've been keeping since 2005, I have MANY quality vintage hamster pictures. Hell yeah.

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Linky ([personal profile] linky) wrote2025-06-02 08:23 pm
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Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote2025-06-01 08:57 pm

Fannish options & enthusiasms | June 2025

Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: With strict scrutiny and nervous caution, wary that perhaps it was only nostalgia and rose-tinted goggles after all, Overly Sarcastic Productions brilliantly examined "The Lost Art of Marvel's Phase 1." Spoiler: Phase 1 really is as good as we thought it was! Yes, even that one! )

Ficathons, fests & communities

  • Create & engage
    • [community profile] fkficfest, the Forever Knight challenge, is in progress revealing its stories (one per day).
    • [community profile] justmarriedexchange is an exchange for marriage tropes. Nominations through June 10; sign-ups through June 22; due August 17.
    • [community profile] epidemfic is an exchange for illness themes and depictions. Sign-ups through June 8; due July 6.
    • [tumblr.com profile] beauty-beast-week is a week-long open celebration of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Posting is August 18-24.
    • [community profile] trope_of_the_month's June theme is "time loops."
    • [community profile] pinchhits is a forum for pinch-hits in exchanges. For example, [community profile] whumpex is seeking pinch hitters.
    • [community profile] whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
  • Enjoy & share

Sidelight: This spring, I posted one recommendation in [community profile] recthething (for "the gears of time turn on" by LadyHoneydee (TLOZ:BOTW)). I used to have a recommendation-of-the-month project for FK fanfiction, long, long ago. I've been thinking of getting back into recommendations, via such communities, perhaps with mirroring in my AO3 account, definitely no longer limited by fandom. I'm wondering whether and how people really use recs these days. Would it be a good use of my time for others?


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malinaldarose ([personal profile] malinaldarose) wrote2025-06-01 07:00 am
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Um...whut?

So I got half-spoiled for the ending of Doctor Who last night because I forgot the Cardinal Rule: Avoid YouTube on Saturday afternoons. Even if the poster of the video tries to avoid it, YouTube will always pick the absolutely most spoilerific image of the whole video as its preview image. On the other hand, from what I'm reading this morning, it may have been available here already at that point; I was waiting until 7:00 p.m., because that's when it's normally available.

The episode Read more... )

I'll probably rewatch both last week's episode and this week's, perhaps this evening.
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Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote2025-05-31 09:29 pm

FKFicFest '25 halfway point

We're at the halfway point of [community profile] fkficfest 2025. Six stories are available to read; six remain to be revealed. You may have noticed that the cadence is (very roughly) short-short-long this year.

I've posted promos to [community profile] fandomcalendar and [community profile] fandom_on_dw. I'm posting a promo with the new reveals to forkni-l every third day.

Please feel free to promote the event in any appropriate forum! Or of course on your own journal.

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Lanna Michaels ([personal profile] lannamichaels) wrote2025-05-31 09:14 pm
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Tian Guan Ci Fu [Heaven Official's Blessing], V. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, translators Suika & Pengie



Funnily enough, the thing that gets me to actually read a MXTX novel is to assess getting it as a birthday present for someone who would give me no info on their current reading tastes and said they were willing to get anything, so based on some of their previous tastes, I considered a MXTX book and figured TGCF would be the most likely book of interest. So out from the library I got the first volume out to read it and assess it.

And it's funny and it's good, so I keep reading to see if the volume ends on a cliffhanger or not, and then I get to the Banyue arc. And I had been told the Banyue arc was racist but I was so not prepared for how racist it is. Right off the bat, it's "hello, nice to meet you, I'm a racist caricature" and then it *keeps getting worse*. So I plan to get the other volumes out from the library and read them myself, because this is enjoyable, but I'm unsure of the birthday present situation. I may go with something else.

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scifirenegade ([personal profile] scifirenegade) wrote2025-05-31 07:21 pm
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Stats: May 2025 Edition

Films Watched

  • Pride and Prejudice (1940)

  • Emma. (2020)

  • Hamlet (1921)

  • Within Our Gates (1920)



Books (being read for leisure)

  • Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy (as always smh)



Arts

  • 1 unfinished full piece (Above Suspicion)

  • 1 scrapped drawing

  • Lots of dumb doodles



Words Written

  • That One Oberaertz Thing: 501 words (total 4803 words)

  • Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh

  • Miscellaneous short fics: two fics (total 778 words)

  • Total: 1279 words

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Lanna Michaels ([personal profile] lannamichaels) wrote2025-05-29 07:59 pm

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The absolute greatest thing about having medical trauma and having to get medical tests done is when you tell the person doing the test that you have medical trauma and please X, Y, and Z, and they then proceed to ignore it and give you more medical trauma.

And you never know! Until you get there and do it! If the person is going to have great bedside manner and everything will be wonderful, or it isn't, and you just have to roll the fucking dice.

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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote2025-05-29 10:51 am
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Unplanned hiatus

I just realized that I haven't looked at Dreamwidth in I have no idea how long. At least a week, probably. I wasn't especially busy; I did take a few days with my family for Memorial Day weekend mini-vacation (which we have done every year since before I was born), but judging by how far I've gone back in my reading list and haven't started seeing posts I recognize, I had stopped well before that.

Normally, checking DW is part of my daily routine. My flist isn't hugely active, so there's no need to check more than once a day, but it's the only place that I can reliably check in with several long-term friends, and of course a lot of exchanges are mostly run through DW and it makes it easier to keep up with what's planned and what's in progress. I missed the signups for Fandom 5k, and none of the pinch hits are things I'd want to write, which is a shame, because I prefer the longer exchanges. Ah, well, I guess that means I will have more time for shorter-minimum thematic exchanges instead.

If you posted something important and I missed it ... sorry! Feel free to let me know in the comments!
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Hamster doin' his best in this big world ([personal profile] crantz) wrote2025-05-29 03:26 am

Been at this Pathfinder thing

We're at Session 9 and I've now made 7 comics about our adventures and that was enough to start posting them to Ao3. Here's the link!

Here's what I've posted since last last first 2:

5 comics about a very tired looking orc )


You can actually watch Thonk's design simplify in real time.
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scifirenegade ([personal profile] scifirenegade) wrote2025-05-27 10:55 am

Here Lies Balduin... Again

This is the year of The Student of Prague. First, a BluRay release. Now, the Bundesarchiv makes a different restoration available on the Digitaler Lesesaal. A little shorter than the Filmmuseum München one, with different intertitles and it's not tinted. Not sure about other differences.

Also Wilhelm Tell 1923. The best print of it that I've seen.