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thefourthvine) wrote2006-08-29 06:18 pm
thefourthvine) wrote2006-08-29 06:18 pm
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Poll: Choose Your Fandoms
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,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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[Poll #809556]
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]
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Well. Technically, that is against the Sacred Rules of the Poll, but I suppose if you know for sure that you're going to pick them up again in a week or a month, then that's more of a temporary fandom vacation.
But I will be keeping a very close eye on you, young lady.
*waves ruler menacingly*
(Yup, I'm practicing; I'm hoping to get a job as a martinet. But actually, I figure you know best what your current fandoms are, so you are best qualified to make the call. I just emphasized the "currently" in the intro to avoid the whole, "But I still love [name of character]! So I'm still in the fandom! Even if I haven't thought about it in years!" thing, which tends to happen with some fandoms.)
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I do cycles of this kind of thing with books too. Like in the last few days I've reread Pride and Prejudice, watched my sister's Keira Knightly movie version, watched my friend's months ago lended Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility and Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma, asked my sister to lend me her A&E Pride and Prejudice, tried to find my copy of Emma, and gotten stupidly frustrated trying to read the online Gutenberg versions. I just need exactly the Jane Austin kind of humour and romance right now, and so I won't read anything that doesn't fit in that niche. So I might still eye my other favourites in the library and even borrow other books from my mom, but they're all on hold until I get into the next frame of mind, which could be tomorrow or could be in a month.
Heck, I'm even in that way in kinds of stories within fandoms. Some weeks I have cravings for anything SGA, other weeks that craving is more specific to "SGA Sheppard/McKay first time angsty adventure with a happy ending". What can I say? I'm difficult :)
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I have days or weeks where I don't bother reading anything new because I know I'm not in the right frame of mind to enjoy it; I only want stories like X. For me, X is usually a writer's style, so I'll spend the time either obsessively re-reading that person's stories or whining about why she doesn't write more. Or both.
But, you know, sometimes you just need - well, for example, Jane Austen. (Although it could be argued that there's no one who doesn't need Jane Austen. God, I love her.)
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