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I found a fandom to reread: Highlander! I think this is working for me well partly because the last time I reread this fandom in any big way was years ago, but also because it's been quite a while since I reread any fandom this old.
(Definitely more Old Fandom than Due South, which to me marks a watershed point in the evolution into more modern media fandom. Highlander is in the same era/category as The Sentinel, I'd say. Smallville and SG1 overlap with Due South but for the most part feel less modern to me. There's a whole world of older fandoms too, of course. Star Trek springs to mind, but the online availability of the old stuff is pretty low. The Professionals is probably the most widely-available example, because they had that whole archive meticulously transcribed from old print zines, and now that's at AO3.)
When I looked at my bookmarks on AO3, there were only 4 in Highlander. In the past I've had tons more than this, bookmarks originally from the pre-archive era sites that I moved first to Delicious, then to AO3. I didn't realize so many had been lost in there - but a lot more old fic has made it to AO3 in recent years, so I'm looking for half-remembered fic now.
But I have found myself reading half or two thirds of something and then failing out (usually because the idea of a 400-year-old man dealing with m/m sex or sexual thoughts for the first time keeps reducing me to giggles and breaking the mood), when I know that I read it all the way through in 2004 and probably somewhere around 2009 (I didn't find that PLAUSIBLE in my 20s; I just enjoyed reading it to the end anyway).
The other thing that keeps distracting me, although not preventing me from reading, is remembering that Peter Wingfield retired from acting and is now an anesthesiologist. This fandom didn't really need any more sources of chuckles, but there it is.
(Definitely more Old Fandom than Due South, which to me marks a watershed point in the evolution into more modern media fandom. Highlander is in the same era/category as The Sentinel, I'd say. Smallville and SG1 overlap with Due South but for the most part feel less modern to me. There's a whole world of older fandoms too, of course. Star Trek springs to mind, but the online availability of the old stuff is pretty low. The Professionals is probably the most widely-available example, because they had that whole archive meticulously transcribed from old print zines, and now that's at AO3.)
When I looked at my bookmarks on AO3, there were only 4 in Highlander. In the past I've had tons more than this, bookmarks originally from the pre-archive era sites that I moved first to Delicious, then to AO3. I didn't realize so many had been lost in there - but a lot more old fic has made it to AO3 in recent years, so I'm looking for half-remembered fic now.
But I have found myself reading half or two thirds of something and then failing out (usually because the idea of a 400-year-old man dealing with m/m sex or sexual thoughts for the first time keeps reducing me to giggles and breaking the mood), when I know that I read it all the way through in 2004 and probably somewhere around 2009 (I didn't find that PLAUSIBLE in my 20s; I just enjoyed reading it to the end anyway).
The other thing that keeps distracting me, although not preventing me from reading, is remembering that Peter Wingfield retired from acting and is now an anesthesiologist. This fandom didn't really need any more sources of chuckles, but there it is.
