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.

[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.

[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*

[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*

[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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/oceana_/]

I really restricted myself to current fandoms, meaning fandoms I watched, talked about and read fanfic in a lot during the last four months. Though I did read fanfic in other fandoms as well, only not as obsessively.

As for the other fandoms: why does no one but me mention Miami Vice? Where are all the Miami Vice fans! No wonder there isn't even an icon community! What are people waiting for? I mean, you cannot possibly get any cooler than Don Johnson in a Ferrari or half-dressed on a boat with an alligator or shooting people in suits in amazing colors! I didn't even know there are clothes in these colors! What's not to love?

I feel like crying.
Everyone should watch and love Miami Vice.
It sparkles.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I forgot about Life on Mars. That's definitely on my list. And vidding-as-fandom is probably my primary fandom right now. Well, vidding and Due South. Due South has eaten my brain.

[theo-winterwood.livejournal.com]

Life on Mars. I forgot to mention Life on Mars. (How could I forget? The show is named after a Bowie song!)

. . . I just noticed how amazingly British all my fandoms are. Wow.

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

Just wanna say that in response to the last question, I suffer from fandom ADD. I think the longest I've ever been active in ANY fandom is two years, and the average time is probably more like half a year. *cough*

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh man. I restrained myself SO HARD! If you asked me to check off every box I've ever been fannish in, or *even* every box I've read a story in in the last 3-4 months? It would be. Uhm. MORE THAN HALF of those boxes. \o/

[ladysorka]

I only picked the three fandoms that I actually consider fandoms that I'm in. If I checked a box for every fandom I've read fic for in the past month or two, I would be in that 31-45 range, even though I don't really consider myself in any of those fandoms. ...I just read a lot.

[atlanta06.livejournal.com]

Um,I still fangirl some "dead" fandoms. They're either off the air,I'm waiting on the next installment or have been discontinued completely. Do they still count?

I didn't answer in the box,because all my fandoms won't fit. =P

In no particular order:

Redwall Series(haven't finished books.)

The Bartimaues Trilogy (haven't finished books.)

Carmen Sandiego(both live action shows and the software series have been discontinued. There was a cartoon,but it ended after a couple of seasons. Plenty of DVDs coming out though.)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent(up until they started adding the new people.)

Harry Potter(I'm not as into it as I was a year ago,seeing all the WANK that comes from something as asinine as "who will shag who",so I think I'm just here for the conclusion,the inevitable implosion of the online fandom and then I'll obsess over something new. I love my friends via HP,though.)

NaNoWriMo(not quite a "fandom" per se,but still very important. All writers ought to particiapte. Really. (http://www.nanowrimo.org))

Hot Bad Guys--or Hot Guys in General('Nuff (http://www.hotbadguys.com) said. (http://bestof.provocateuse.com))

Simcity(waiting on the newest release and a new computer. I <3 it always. )

Good Eats (Alton Brown is a god. That is all.)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Unless you count music. I don't have any clear cut fangirling in that category.

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

Reading through the comments, I realized I had forgotten like 4 other fandoms, bringing my grand total to...17. Oh, my. I've never actually tallied them before. o_O

(For the record, those fandoms are Good Omens, Life on Mars, Doctor Who, and Whose Line is it Anyway?)

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm still only *thinking* about a Doctor Who vid. I confess! But I do love this shiny new fandom.

Also very happy that Hercules was in the list and that I'm not the only person to click it, even! Yay!

Also also, questions about years and dates: OMG SO HARD. CANNOT DEAL.