Fandom meme

[sophinisba]

Here is a meme about the fandoms we love!

The meme and questions: RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

Here are my answers for the fandoms rubynye gave me:


Lotrips

1. I started reading Lotrips a few months after I started reading LotR fpf and a few months before I started writing any fanfic. I resisted it for a while because of Strong Moral Objections but then I followed some links, I think from lotr_fic_recs, and once I'd found shaenie's fics I was totally sold.
2. I've never really thought of myself as being in this fandom because I don't write it, and I think Lotrips culture is a little less friendly toward non-writers than LotR fandom. Anyway, I've mostly moved on already in that I don't read it much these days or have strong feelings about the actors the way I once did, but there are Lotrips people that I like and that I've followed to other places, and I still have affection for the fandom and want it to continue.
3. Hee, not really. The DVD commentaries, I guess.
4. I used to participate by commenting on fics I read and occasionally linking. I'm still co-modding lotr_fic_recs which includes Lotrips fic, but very few other people participate there these days.
5. I think it would be hard to get excited about it these days, what with the actors themselves and so many other writers and readers having moved on, but I'm sure some people could have fun with it, and there certainly is a lot of good stuff out there to read.



The Faculty

1. I saw and liked the movie in between when I saw the LotR movies and when I started reading fanfic. Then I followed some authors who wrote both – I think the first Faculty fic I read was by mirabellawotr.
2. I think I'm mostly done with it now, might write a drabble now and then.
3. :)
4. It's the fandom I've written in most, after LotR, and I used to read and comment and rec.
5. Sure, it's a lovely fandom with lots of good fic, and it's very easygoing and welcoming, or at least it was at the time I started writing.

Two Faculty fandom-related confessions that are not part of the meme:
1. A couple years ago I asked angstslashhope if she'd let me fic some of the broken links at her fansite Decoy, and she said if I wanted to take over she'd turn it over to me as well as the big old archive Tweaked, and I said sure. However after that I could never figure out how to edit the website, and since I don't know Hope well (and she didn't always answer my e-mails) I felt funny about asking her for help, so for all this time the site's just been sitting there hosting old Faculty fic in a very disorganized way.
2. I am responsible for The Faculty getting taken off the list of Yuletide fandoms last year. Thus I may have prevented some Faculty fic from being written. I just, it seems a little insulting to call it a rare fandom, you know?



Merlin

1. I'd seen a few people talking about it and figured I would ignore it, and then I was hanging out in the Yuletide chatroom in December and everyone there was also talking about it, and I decided to check out the show and didn't love it, and then I started reading fic.
2. I'm sure I'll move on some day but for now I'm thrilled with this fandom. I haven't been as excited about anything fannish in a long time. I'm a little concerned that some of the writers I like may be moving on already, with Star Trek replacing Merlin as the New Shiny, but maybe they'll come back once season 2 starts airing.
3. Episode 10, The Moment of Truth is my favorite. I'm also very fond of 4, 5, 12, and 13.
4. I mostly just read and comment and sometimes help out at merlinfinders. I sometimes rec and have drabbled. I would like to rec and write more – I have started several longer fics but haven't managed to finish any. I listed it as my first choice for remixredux09.
5. WHY YES, YES I DO.

Comments

[sophinisba]

Okay, I just sent angstslashhope a quick e-mail to ask if it would be okay to pass along the access code she gave me to you. She's moved on to other fandoms several times and I don't know how much she'll remember of her interaction with me, so, I don't know. You might want to drop her a line as well.

Have you used FTP before?