December Daily: to all the fandoms I've loved before

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I came home and found the kitchen window just lying on the floor. I live on the second floor and the screen is fine, so I guess it must have been a windy weekend? (Also, the new tenants are smoking, dammit. It's a lease violation. And I'm allergic.)

anitac588 asked: "How do you relate to different fandoms? Do you revisit them? Sometimes I find it difficult to go back to reading stories in 'old' fandoms after discovering new OTP."

I'm the same way!

I have a crush on Venom fandom right now, so in Venom I'll do things like do an AO3 fandom search and open everything I find. I'll finish Venom stories and take pleasure in them even if they're deeply flawed, as long as the characterization is good.

Then I have a long list of fandoms where I'm ... interested, but picky. Before I open a story, it has to be either written or recced by someone I trust, or else have a very interesting description. And I'm not pre-committed, so I won't keep reading if I hit a major flaw. (This would be anything from old favorites like Harry Potter to small-but-reliable fandoms like Discworld to oddballs like if somebody's writing fanfic on Muppet Christmas Carol or something.)

And then there are fandoms that I actually don't even like ... with tiny exceptions. I mean, I pretty much won't be reading a story in Merlin fandom unless the kidlet writes it.

And then there's Yuletide, the exception to everything, where if two people I barely know both say, "You have got to read this story whose fandom is "Octopus Steals My Video Camera And Swims Off With It" I'll be like, "Sure thing!"



1 -- goss, "VENOM! Why do you think it's been such an instant hit with Fandom, and what are some of your favourite fanworks so far?" and nestra, "Any Venom recs?"
2 -- anitac588, "How do you relate to different fandoms? Do you revisit them? Sometimes I find it difficult to go back to reading stories in 'old' fandoms after discovering new OTP."
3 -- marginaliana, "what is your favorite physical non-living thing? Not a person or a pet, but it could be something you own or a piece of art, etc."
4 -- cesperanza, "I'll ask an HP question, actually, because I wasn't really ever in it and I'm interested in the reactions of people who were. It seems to me from the outside so spectacularly meh now; like, it was the fictional equiv of Lost (which I also didn't watch) where it was fascinating as a piece of serialized fiction but where the execution simply couldn't live up to the collective imagination. Am I wrong?"
5 -- teigh_corvus, "Your thoughts on James Joyce and Ulysses."
6 -- kass, "If the you of 10 years ago could see you now, what would surprise her most?"
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8 -- mific, "Sounds like you commute to and fro still. How do you pass the time traveling? Music? Audiobooks? Something else? Any reccs? :)"
9 -- torch, "favorite advent songs!"
10 -- princessofgeeks, "How did you go about changing fandoms? Was it, historically, something you did or something that just happened? Did friends lure you? Did you find new shows to watch?"
11 -- reginagiraffe, "(It's MrGiraffe's birthday so...) Have you ever written a birthday themed story? If not, what couple would have the best/funnest/easiest birthday story to write and why?"
12 -- laurenthemself, "What are your thoughts on Thor: Ragnarok? I know ya boy Steve wasn't in it but did you have any shippy feelings?"
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15 -- china_shop, "What hooks you into a fanfic? Is it banter, characterisation, tropes, or...? Is it different from what hooks you into original fic?"
16 -- muccamukk, "Describe a long fic you always wanted to write, but never have and likely never will."
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18 -- kass, "What have you read recently that you've enjoyed?
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22 -- mekare, What would Ben Fraser do in 2018?
23 -- marina, "What was the last book you read that wasn't fanfic and that you intensely loved, and why."
24 -- wychwood, "Something about SGA! What's the one fic you're sorry you never wrote? What was your favourite episode? Do you still love John/Rodney? How gay WAS John Sheppard? Where in Atlantis would you live if you could pick any room you liked? Pick one or a topic of your choice."
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28 -- kass, "What do you like best about where you live?"
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30 -- china_shop, "Your favourite book you read this year."
31 -- wolfshark, "what is your favorite story to reread of your own stuff? what was your favorite story to write?"