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

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

I know I had one such poll - I'd love to see the others (I am pulling together the Bascon vid show so all data welcomed).

[abbylee]

I know you asked for "current" fandoms, but I checked some boxes for shows I don't really watch or read right now, because I still consider them my fandoms even if I'm not obsessing about them right now, because I will start again any minute.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Question. How do you define 'most active'? I mean--my current problem is that I'm not really 'most active' in *any* fandoms at the moment. Yes, it's tragic. I feel very adrift.

And--do you count 'watching and obsessing over vids' as a fannish activity? Because if so, I would be checking a lot more boxes and also adding some. (QaF, for instance. And the O.C. And VMars, and Invisible Man, and Life On Mars and--hell, this is why I like to consider vidding a fandom: it's the only place where I reallly fit!)

[kageygirl.livejournal.com]

Man, the "current" requirement hurts! I am and have been in so many fandoms (I still kinda think the plural should be "fanda"), and I cycle in and out of them. But I was scrupulously honest anyway. Sniff.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

You know, I had "Vids" on the fandom list, and then I took it off because I thought only three people would check it, and I was one of them, and I already knew about the other two, so it seemed gratuitous. But now I'm thinking - well. Maybe there are more vidfans than I thought.

*experiences the 20/20 of hindsight*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

And, uh, I'm not too bright, 'cause I forgot to answer your first question. I define "most active" however you define "most active" - if you are on total fandom hiatus, then obviously don't check any of the boxes.

But vidding counts as a fandom. It's just not on there (go ahead and check the "other fandom that isn't a comic book, anime, etc." box) because I second-guessed myself.

I feel very adrift.

Awwww. *pats*

[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...

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

This is tricky, because there are a number of boxes I didn't check that I could have. I don't consider myself really active in them at the moment, but I'll still read stories in them that are recommended.

I missed sticking Life on Mars in the textbox, because it's possible that I am currently pursuing a new (to me) fannish avenue with it.

[nessreader.livejournal.com]

Now's a golden opportunity to thank you for my latest obsession, dS fic, which is eating my life. While I loved the canon for years - (you said in your "Fandoms 4thVine has Loved" that you hadn't watched the TV show; have you by now?) - getting hooked on RayK stories is just consuming me right now. *sigh*

I started out reading Trek fanzines posted by snailmail - how else to get them? - in the 1980s. Am a dinosaur.

ps: activity mostly means reading a lot, writing insufficient LoCs, or passing on http:links for me. And I wrote some quite remarkably shite fanfics in my littlest fandom, simply because not enough other writers existed there. When in a big fandom, I feel there are enough and much better people producing fanwork.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Yup, yours was one. At least one of the others was friends-locked, though. I'll try to get together a list of links and send them to you, okay? (Because of the friends-locked-ness, I don't want to comment with the links.) If I forget - well, if I forget and you remember, poke me, and if we both forget, I'm hoping someone else will cruise by here, say, "Hey, one of those was mine!" and drop a link.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Looking at my personal percentages, it should be 96% Startrek Original and the rest divided between the others. But I didn't want to check only one box *g*

Re in fandom - I'm a trekkie since about 1977, but in online-fandom only since 2002...

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Okay, I clicked 1-2 years even though I have been in HP for nearly four, but I no longer consider it my dominant fandom. That would be Firefly (or would have been until about two weeks ago), which I was in when it was airing, but then sort of stopped being active in it until last May or June when the advance screenings of Serenity appeared, so... a year and a few months there.

[laurakaye.livejournal.com]

Crap, I didn't read the instructions carefully enough! I only did the shows I'm currently writing, not the ones I'm currently reading. Which basically means, add DS to the read list for me, because it is my constant companion!

[das-kabinett.livejournal.com]

Golly, SGA. I heart you, but I'm beginning to think that we ought not feed the plant. *g*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

*eyes you*

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.)

[nessreader.livejournal.com]

getting hooked on RayK stories is just consuming me right now.

and it's Your Fault

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

*sniffles in sympathy*

I know. It really is painful; I'm still waffling about two of the fandoms, all, "But I've done something involving it recently, so surely I can count it."

Your scrupulousness is very much appreciated, though.

*bonds*

[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.

[ruric.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm - will be watching this and checking back. Fascinating *g*

And *cough* it would help if I could not fuck up the surname of my fave RPS pairing. That should read Kane and not Kae *headdesk*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I don't consider myself really active in them at the moment, but I'll still read stories in them that are recommended.

Yeah. I mean, that applies for all but about four of these boxes for me (which is not a surprise, since I took it from the list of stuff I've recommended in the past); it's just, I'm not hunting new fan fiction in the wild or aggressively pursuing recommendations or whatever in those fandoms. But if someone I trust is going to throw that link in front of me, well...

I still didn't tick those boxes, though, unless I had actually done something recent with the fandom.

it's possible that I am currently pursuing a new (to me) fannish avenue with it

Okay. Now I'm curious. Not that I would, you know, pry, but - wait. I would totally pry. So, pray tell: new fannish avenue?

*pries*

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

HEY WEIRD YOU FORGOT THE ONE TREE HILL TICKY BOX.

:?

[paceus.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, yes, I thought "How long have you been in fandom?" meant "how long have you been in your current dominant fandom?" I don't know how. I've been in fandom for three years, even if my current dominant fandom hasn't been wreaking havoc with my social life for more than a couple of months. The experience has been more about finding the good porn than figuring out the acronyms, I have to admit.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also, where are the 13 other people who checked "Ocean's 11" currently fandom-ing... whatever, being fannish about it doing that? 'Cause I sure would like there to be more fic and such and yet... not so much in my fannish circles.

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

I was looking at other people's results, and man, I *totally* forgot CSI, Slings and Arrows, Life on Mars, Studio 60 (I *saw* the pilot. it's a fandom), um, there were a couple more.

Oh, and The Dark Is Rising! That's a book, so check off that one box. And Lawrence of Arabia. And, well, I didn't check Ocean's 11 because I don't know if I've read anything in it in the last three or four months, but if someone shows up with a fic, I'll read it with joy! And maybe I forgot to check West Wing? I read fic in that more recently than I thought.

And yeah. I'll...stop here. Because otherwise it gets kind of frightening.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

it's just, I'm not hunting new fan fiction in the wild or aggressively pursuing recommendations or whatever in those fandoms. But if someone I trust is going to throw that link in front of me, well...

*nod* That's it, completely. Either I don't have the energy or drive to hunt for stories, or there's too much fanon characterization floating around that I just don't want to deal with.

Okay. Now I'm curious. Not that I would, you know, pry, but - wait. I would totally pry. So, pray tell: new fannish avenue?

Well, I'm a tad embarassed to admit this, but it's possible I've acquired myself some software, and am in the process of attempting (attempting) to create a vid.

I'm just going to go and hide my shame now, for I fear the ending to this will not be amazing.