My fandoms

[randomling]

What do I mean by "my fandoms"?
This isn't just a list of "stuff I love", though obviously there's major overlap there. But neither is it a list of stuff for which I have been actively involved in fandom already, or have already written fiction for. I suppose what this boils down to is a list of fandoms I'm prepared to write in, which meet the following three criteria:
a) I love the canon.
b) I have the enthusiasm to want to write fic (this isn't necessarily the same thing as just loving the thing; I love Donnie Darko, for example, but wouldn't want to write fic in that universe).
c) I'm familiar enough with the canon to feel somewhat confident writing fic.

This is probably more of an exact definition than most fandom-savvy readers would ever need, but um... I like writing definitions? I don't know. It's kind of useful to me to have some criteria by which I decide what goes on this list.

Also, I haven't bothered to italicise the names of TV shows/movies/books, because I am lazy and ALL THE HTML TAGS.

Deprecated/no longer interested/no longer watch/read fandoms are struck out. (Edit, 2024: there are a LOT of struck out fandoms now, so they're getting their own fandoms

TV
Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Babylon 5, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix), Doctor Who, Farscape, Firefly, Fringe, Good Omens, Heroes, Highlander The Series, One Day At A Time, The Owl House, The Sandman, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, The West Wing, The X Files

Film
Die Hard movies, Encanto, Inception, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Old Guard, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Serenity,

Books
Diana Wynne Jones (especially Fire and Hemlock, Homeward Bounders, Deep Secret, Chrestomanci), KJ Charles novels (especially Think of England), The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien), Murderbot (Martha Wells), Whyborne and Griffin (Jordan L Hawk), Young Wizards (Diane Duane)

RPF
Popslash

Other
Dungeons and Dragons (RPG), Final Fantasy VII (video game), Final Fantasy X (video game), Final Fantasy XIV (video game), Kaleidotrope (podcast), The Sandman (comic), Welcome to Night Vale (podcast)


Ex-fandoms
Angel The Series, Anne of Green Gables (and subsequent books), Baldur's Gate (video game), Battlestar Galactica (reboot), The Big Bang Theory, Dollhouse, Elementary, Eureka, Fast & Furious movies, Harry Potter books, Harry Potter movies, Haven, How I Met Your Mother, Little Women (and subsequent books), the MCU, Once Upon A Time, Sleepy Hollow, Star Trek (reboot), Supernatural, Torchwood, Warehouse 13,

Comments

[teigh_corvus]

This is a very logical, useful way to break fandoms down, actually.

[randomling]

Thanks! :D It definitely makes sense for me, anyway.

[author_by_night]

I like how you categorize fandom. I've noticed a lot of people use it more generically these days - i.e. "I like it enough to remember who the main characters are." Which isn't to say that doesn't make you a fan, but it doesn't make you part of the fandom, so to speak.

For me, part of being in fandom versus really liking something is also how much you want to discuss it, and how in depth. Not that if you don't, you're not still in the fandom, but to me obsessiveness plays a huge part. Then again, I got into fandom through discussion, rather than fanfic. (Even though I wrote fanfic long before I knew about fandom. I hope that makes sense.)

[randomling]

Thanks! Yeah, if I was using it that generally, I guess there'd be a lot more stuff on the list.

I agree with you about discussion, too - I think a lot more meta than I actually write, but I do a lot of rambly conversations about fandom stuff, and that's definitely a flag for "I'm fannish about it", too. How much do I want to talk about it all day and all night?

[althea_valara]

WAIT WHAT THEY MADE A DIRK GENTLY SERIES?!?! I wonder if I can find that somehow? I did love the books, after all.

We have a lot of overlap in the things we like! I've been one-trick pony for years now (pretty limited to Final Fantasy stuff) but a lot of what you list are past likes of mine, and it would be good to revisit canon, at the very least.

My older sis got me Avatar: The Last Airbender on Blu-ray for Christmas. I've never seen the end of it, so I'm looking forward to watching it!

[randomling]

There's at least two Dirk Gently series that I know of! One is (I think) a BBC effort from the early 2010s starring Stephen Mangan as Dirk. The one I know and love is from 2017, it's on Netflix, it stars Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood and Brad Dourif's daughter (she's excellent), it has really queer vibes, and I just... love it, from multiple angles.

If you watch it and want someone to scream at/squee with I'm right here, I rewatch regularly because it's a comfort show at this point. Ditto FF stuff, or AtLA, honestly - I hope you really enjoy the ending! Another comfort-and-joy show for me.

[teigh_corvus]

You know, I was *just* wondering if there were still folk interested in the Die Hard movies. I watched 1, 2 and 4 on Christmas Eve and remembered how much I loved the fic, especially for 4.

Do you mind if I borrow/ adapt your classification system?

[randomling]

Feel free to borrow and adapt my classification system any way you like!

Man I haven't actually rewatched the Die Hard movies in ages... I should get on that...