The Fannish Personality (Where I am Right Now, Fannishly)

I saw a couple of people on my dlist here post that they'd updated their fandom info and I thought, what a good idea! So last night I skimmed through my DW profile and made some minor changes, then updated my trusty

Ten Things I Assume You Know About Me If You Read My Journal

(That isn't required reading; I'm not, like, mad about it. I just refer to these things without footnotes or background info.)

But I got to thinking about my fandom belonging and my fandom interests, which have changed a lot from the community-based, almost... club-like vibe of lj communties. I still imbibe a lot of visual stimulus from Tumblr daily, but I'm trying to move more interaction here to Dreamwidth, because that's where the interaction happens. Working on having conversations here, and so on. Not so much, necessarily, about fannish interests - fandoms, I mean - but perhaps that's mostly my few fandom interests/the fewer opportunities on dw to talk about them now. And there's more about meta, which interests me perhaps more anyway, because my interest (such as it is!) in reading fanfiction this year has been like...:

↳ Comb through my Highlander bookmarks, recs, and old journal entries in search of other references to check out, and attempt to find up-to-date links to things; fail for the most part. Go through the Highlander fics on AO3. Post updated recs.

↳ Read Steve/Eddie Stranger Things fic all summer, going slowly more and more crazy because it's all written by British teenagers and it's no longer cool to use betas, or apparently even proofreaders, and everybody insists on putting modern British slang in and calling sweatshirts "sweaters", which is a big problem because there's an iconic sweatshirt in canon so it shows up in almost every fic and I just want to get a Tumblr megaphone and make a PSA about what a sweater was in 1980s America to these dweebs who are too young to have learned how to Google apparently... oh, I also posted recs for that in the summer though! Here

↳ Brief 1-week tour of Our Flag Means Death, primarily modern AUs, after the show came out. Cute, but getting twee-er by the minute.

↳ Brief 3-4 week period of intermittently checking the AO3 tag for The Sandman (TV) after it came out. Going through all the stages of grief and then relaxing in a warm bath of surreal amusement because the only part of this incredible and humongous universe that is producing fanfiction is characterization-agnostic wish-fulfillment schmoopangst about Dream and Hob Gadling, the immortal English peasant, and the occasional bit of hilaribble kinkfic about The Corinthian.

↳ I think there was a period in there where I discovered by accident that people write slash about TinTin, which I've never read nor watched, but I was so curious that I had to go looking, but then I had to try to block the trauma from my brain.

↳ Just the last week or two I've been going back through The Dark Is Rising fic because usually I expect a good supply of new Will/Bran fic every Yuletide, but this year there wasn't that much.

On Tumblr, though, your stance to fanfic or fanworks isn't important: you can reblog things just because they're pretty! Or to put it another way, the whole fannish personality can flourish there, not just like... fandoms (media fandoms). I'm a fan of Glass Onion and I'm also a fan of bauhaus lighting, for example! A fan of cats and a fan of dogs! All those things can be shuffled together on equal footing on Tumblr:

• Hannibal is evergreen


• Black Sails is still the best show I've ever seen


• Everything Everywhere All At Once gifsets currently abound


• Basically full time Interview with the Vampire fan there, even though I haven't really tried to read any fanfiction - it doesn't necessarily seem to need it? Although I do still think AUs could be really funny
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