Poll: Fandoms I Have Loved: Reader Input

[thefourthvine]

I'm just curious, really. I have a lot of half-finished FIHL posts sitting on my hard drive - all the ones listed below are somewhere between 1% and 80% complete - and I guess, now that I've finished with Smallville, I'm feeling a little...unfocused.

Pointers, anyone?

ETA: I have already done (in reverse order) Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, The Fast and the Furious, Oz, Ocean's 11, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Master & Commander, due South, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Sentinel, and Lord of the Rings. Those can all be found at my Fandoms I Have Loved tag.

ETA2: Allow me to smack my forehead in a painful fashion, because I completely forgot to put on the poll two others that I have in progress: Harry Potter and the DCU. Memo to me: no more posting polls late at night.

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Comments

[wistfuljane.livejournal.com]

Oohh...Harry Potter! Harry Potter! Because I would love your spin on the canon.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I salute you for your excellent taste in small fandoms. And, seriously, I would've put DiR on the list (I do have a stub of a FIHL for it, started back when dinosaurs frolicked on the earth), but I didn't want to see no one vote for it but me. (And makesmewannadie; I made her read the books last year.) I love those books. They made my childhood a happy place, and I still re-read The Dark Is Rising every December.

And GO and Discworld - these are excellent suggestions. (Although I would feel weird about writing a FIHL that's significantly less funny than the actual canon.)

My Harry Potter FIHL, on the other hand, has been in progress forever. And it's, like, 12 pages of insane confusion already, and it's only half done. And that doesn't even include HPB.

Come to think of it, that would be a highly appropriate introduction to the fandom, really.

*moves HP back into the active folder*

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

i would totally have voted for dark is rising (and i would have logged out and logged back in with the two journals i DON'T EVEN USE to vote for it, too) if it had been an option. i'm just sayin'.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I love you more than words can express.

And I am ashamed; I should have had more faith in my fellow fans. Of course there'd be DiR love out there! You people have taste!

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

What minervacat said, complete with admission that I would vote with my unused journal. The Dark is Rising and Little Men (everyone stop laughing at meeee!) are my two favorite ignored fandoms.

I would like to vote for HP as well.

And it's probably (un)important to note that I made a tiny little noise of happiness and glee when I saw Scrubs on that list.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Okay, I admit I can't agree with you on the Little Men thing, mostly because I never read it. (By the time I was halfway through Little Women, I just...I couldn't face the concept of a sequel. I couldn't even face the rest of the book. Yes, it's true: I preferred Eight Cousins to Little Women. My shame is great.)

But I so totally hear you on DiR and Scrubs. These are canons that everyone should love. And write lots of fan fiction for.

*waits hopefully for the Fandom Gods to make it so*

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

Little Men is a little preachy, when I read it now, but I loved it as a little kid. There are these friends, Dan and Nat, and Dan is big and burly, and Nat is slim and delicate, and Dan takes care of Nat and stoically takes the blame for him when Nat is unjustly accused of stealing money, and --

Er, I'll shut up. But even if you didn't like Little Women, you might like Little Men. (I didn't like Little Women at all.)

Those damn Fandom Gods don't keep a very good timetable. I've been waiting for both fandoms for a while now.

[wistfuljane.livejournal.com]

*watches as DIR fans come out of the woodworks* I rest my case (whatever case that is)! *g*

I actually only read Dark Is Rising recently. I think it's because I wanted to read one of the crossover fanfics you recommended, but had want to know the source texts first and since I was looking for something to read, well...you know the rest. I really love Will & Bran.

And heh! *waits patiently for you HP FIHL*