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frankenstein's meme #6
yes, I did skip day 5 because for one, my answer is obvious (every day I wish tbz had a bigger fandom... they deserve it so much...) but also because election results gave me a headache last night lol it's been a decade of losing what little sanity I have over the deterioration of politics here, I'm exhausted.
anyway! day 6!!! not the band.
6. What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
these fandom questions are making me realize I've never fandom hopped all that much to begin with, and even when I have multiple fandoms, I'm not necessarily active in all of them. so it's hard to gauge which one is the oldest one, or what metrics to use...
for instance, my oldest current fandom might be mamamoo, as I've been a fan since 2014. and while I've written a handful of fics for them in idk 2016 and sometimes will try my hand at a drabble, I rarely engage with the fandom at large. same with critical role that I've been watching since 2017 (I think? I got there during the last few months of the vox machina campaign iirc), but I'm just following the fandom from the sidelines, I don't create anything nor am I in the habit of reading fic/meta/discussions for it either. they have the MOST gorgeous fanart ever though, it's the most fun fandom to follow in that sense!
with scripted things that's even more evident because I'm usually pretty canon-driven, anyway. and considering I've always been a little too socially anxious and a little too averse to fandom drama, my m.o is to stay in my lane and not venture out much. killing eve and yellowjackets are two of my favorite shows of all time, for example, but my fandom experience boils down to reblogging gifsets on tumblr lol I'm treading carefully in the iwtv fandom too. I don't think I have what it takes to engage properly with TV show fandoms, sorry.
so! to sum it up, I've been more active in the tbz, oneus, and (to a lesser extent) gidle fandoms for the last 5~4 years, and honestly, I'm having a blast. my favorite fandom experience to date <3
anyway! day 6!!! not the band.
6. What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
these fandom questions are making me realize I've never fandom hopped all that much to begin with, and even when I have multiple fandoms, I'm not necessarily active in all of them. so it's hard to gauge which one is the oldest one, or what metrics to use...
for instance, my oldest current fandom might be mamamoo, as I've been a fan since 2014. and while I've written a handful of fics for them in idk 2016 and sometimes will try my hand at a drabble, I rarely engage with the fandom at large. same with critical role that I've been watching since 2017 (I think? I got there during the last few months of the vox machina campaign iirc), but I'm just following the fandom from the sidelines, I don't create anything nor am I in the habit of reading fic/meta/discussions for it either. they have the MOST gorgeous fanart ever though, it's the most fun fandom to follow in that sense!
with scripted things that's even more evident because I'm usually pretty canon-driven, anyway. and considering I've always been a little too socially anxious and a little too averse to fandom drama, my m.o is to stay in my lane and not venture out much. killing eve and yellowjackets are two of my favorite shows of all time, for example, but my fandom experience boils down to reblogging gifsets on tumblr lol I'm treading carefully in the iwtv fandom too. I don't think I have what it takes to engage properly with TV show fandoms, sorry.
so! to sum it up, I've been more active in the tbz, oneus, and (to a lesser extent) gidle fandoms for the last 5~4 years, and honestly, I'm having a blast. my favorite fandom experience to date <3
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I've been in scripted tv and book fandoms before, and enjoyed them, but rpf is so much more interesting to me. There's so much more to think about and try to synthesise into an intelligible narrative arc, I find that so fascinating.
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There's so much more to think about and try to synthesise into an intelligible narrative arc / that's true... I hadn't thought about how much harder it is to come up with a narrative arc when we're quite literally dealing with something that there's no actual canon arc for (?).
and I can't figure out how to put it into words (my brain is mush rn) but I think it's harder too to deviate from canon material in TV/book fic...? not in the AU sense, but characterization-wise. at least for me as a writer/reader/viewer. for example, I can concede and accept my interpretation of juyeon's personality/on-screen persona doesn't match someone else's, sure, and I'm willing to read different points of view, but if someone tries to convince me amc's armand is something other than the interpretation of him I have in my head, that might be a struggle LOL does that make sense? rpf has more space for creativity imo, with characterization at the core of it, which is just fun.
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But in RPF we are deciding what bits of canon to take and leave, and we are making decisions about what parts of characterisation are performative/fanservice/stage persona and what is behind the scenes/off-stage persona/unrehearsed, and it's all SO SO INTERESTING and there's so much room for interpretation.
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100% agree with everything you said about RPF too. there really is SO MUCH room for interpretation. and that's it, that's what makes it fun for me. it's why I'm so drawn to actual characterization that relies on their personalities/personas and don't care much about stories that are too ooc - the fun is in all the interpretation and all the filtering of a whole bunch of variables that goes into it :')