Fandom Meme, 6
Jul. 16th, 2021 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archer6. 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.
I feel that this question is making a lot of assumptions, viz, that the fandom you’ve been in the longest is one that you’re still in today. What if you had ten lovely years with a fandom but ultimately parted ways in an acrimonious divorce? What then??
This is actually a hypothetical what-if, as the longest I’ve ever been in a fandom is Captain America fandom, and although my period of greatest activity ended maybe a few months after I finished writing by Steve/Bucky epic Reciprocity, I still put out a new fic now and again. My latest was a Natasha-centric fic in March 2021. I don’t read much fic anymore but I do remain a sucker for the fanart. (Speaking of: have I linked this fanart of Steve & Bucky in the style of a Leyendecker illustration? Gorgeous. Perfect.)
And of course I keep getting suckered back into new MCU content, most recently Black Widow. So far I’ve resisted Loki, but we’ll see if that lasts. And I’m probably going to end up seeing The Eternals (because it was directed by Chloe Zhao!) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (because Awkwafina is in it and I am weak).
Admittedly, I often go in kicking and screaming “MCU, why can’t I quit you???” but honestly I think that proves the depth of my attachment rather than otherwise.
I feel that this question is making a lot of assumptions, viz, that the fandom you’ve been in the longest is one that you’re still in today. What if you had ten lovely years with a fandom but ultimately parted ways in an acrimonious divorce? What then??
This is actually a hypothetical what-if, as the longest I’ve ever been in a fandom is Captain America fandom, and although my period of greatest activity ended maybe a few months after I finished writing by Steve/Bucky epic Reciprocity, I still put out a new fic now and again. My latest was a Natasha-centric fic in March 2021. I don’t read much fic anymore but I do remain a sucker for the fanart. (Speaking of: have I linked this fanart of Steve & Bucky in the style of a Leyendecker illustration? Gorgeous. Perfect.)
And of course I keep getting suckered back into new MCU content, most recently Black Widow. So far I’ve resisted Loki, but we’ll see if that lasts. And I’m probably going to end up seeing The Eternals (because it was directed by Chloe Zhao!) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (because Awkwafina is in it and I am weak).
Admittedly, I often go in kicking and screaming “MCU, why can’t I quit you???” but honestly I think that proves the depth of my attachment rather than otherwise.
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Date: 2021-07-17 01:15 pm (UTC)