Poll: Choose Your Fandoms

[thefourthvine]

Wait! Wait, please don't scroll past.

Yes, I know you've probably seen at least one other poll like this today. I have, too. In fact, I've seen four polls about popular current fandoms in the last 48 hours or so, mostly as people gear up for year-end stuff. And the results have been oddly variant, depending on who was hosting the poll and the terms of the poll. It made me curious.

So here's what I'd like you to do. Answer the questions below about the fandoms you are currently active in. By active, I mean doing whatever it is you do in fandom. That's more than just loving the source - writing about it, reading obsessively about it, writing or reading fan fiction for it, making or watching vids, making or hunting for art, organizing stuff, dragging other people into it, etc. Just - you need to be doing these things currently. No matter how much you love the fandom, if you haven't had anything much to do with it in the past, say, three to four months, it doesn't count.

Yeah, I know. It hurts. Be strong! And may the force of the ticky box be with you.

(Oh, and if you're wondering how the fandoms ended up on the list below - they came from my sidebar. I subtracted all the small or one-off fandoms, added in the two RPF fandoms I know are big, and this was the result. So, if you think it should be here and it isn't, perhaps you should pimp me into it. Juuuuust a suggestion.)

ETA: In the how-many-boxes question, line six should read "21-45," not "31-45." Sorry about that. Got carried away with Polling Enthusiasm.

Further ETA: If you've done a poll like this recently, morgandawn would like to know about it for BASCON purposes; please drop her a line on the first comment.

[Poll #809556]

Comments

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

If it were October, I'd have added BSG too, but I really only do meta-about-the-episodes for that one and as there aren't episodes right now...

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

For the record, "Intently awaiting the canon's return from hiatus" counts if you're doing it fannishly. (Squeeing about ads, knowing exactly when the first episode airs, and, um. All that other stuff that you brave folks who watch the canon in first run do.)

Basically, my call here is that you know what your current fandoms are, so if BSG is much in your fannish heart and mind, then feel free to count it.

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

Okaaaay, but what if you're not doing it fannishly on purpose? Me, the spoiler-phobe that I am, I'm avoiding anything and everything BSG right now, and other than October, I have no idea when the new season starts (if Katie hadn't said that above, I would've said "fall").

Or like with dead fandoms? Because I'm not currently writing Due South or Sports Night or Farscape or a bunch of others, but if someone posts something that twigs my interest, I'll read it or talk about it. I mean, I haven't abandoned them altogether and I have no idea when they could spring back up to the front of my mind instead of hanging out there in the back, drinking and keeping themselves company.

And those are only a couple of my, "But...what about...?" flailings.

I suck at polls. They're haaaaard.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Whoops! I didn't get this comment notification, and I just noticed it. Um. Sorry.

But, basically, my call is - you're still fannish about BSG; avoiding spoilers is another kind of anticipation, is all.

But old fandoms, yeah, most people don't totally abandon them, but that doesn't make them current. You know what you love, fannishly speaking - what you seek out (or avoid, but for reasons of love), what you crave. Or, here's an example of a way you could think about it. A fabulous writer (who can write equally well in any fandom) offers to write a story for you, you pick the fandom. What are the ones that immediately spring to mind?

In my opinion, fannishness is - unsurprisingly - like porn: you know it when you feel it.