Poll: Distraction Is Good

[thefourthvine]

I'm kind of - not too bright sometimes. For example, when I grabbed an oven rack to move it around without, um, checking to see if it was hot? That was a "not so bright" moment in my life, right there.

Also, ow.

So I want distraction, with a minimum of typing involved. It's time for a poll! With, ideally, lots of comments! Come on, people - please. Distract me.

(I do actually have a place I'm going with this, by the way - except for the last question, which is there solely because LJ is crazed tonight. I'm trying to find out what fans do and how they do it. Assuming the ice does its job, I'll have a meta post on this sometime in the distant, murky future. Probably.)

[Poll #830222]

Comments

[coaldustcanary.livejournal.com]

I'm terribly curious now about how the breakdowns would differ, if, say, we were able to break down the responses to the "archetype" question by how long the respondent had been in fandom. I'd be willing to bet that people who'd been in fandom, say, for two or three years probably have much different experiences than the people who've been fannish for 20 years or more. Still, I'm not sure what the effect would be. Long-time fans might have more fandoms becuase they've had more time to experience 'em, but on the other hand it almost seems like multi-fandomness is a more recent phenomenon, and One True Fandom was more the way of things of old, but hell, I could be wrong.

Me, I picked gorilla, but a magpie with turtle-speed might be more accurate. I have one Big Main Fandom at any one time, usually, but I never really get out of a fandom. I could spend years and never finish my current enthusiastic consumption of Doctor Who canon and fanon and meta, but I still read fic in and occasionally make fic or meta conversations in half a dozen other fandoms. Adding in my love of crossovers (a very guilty pleasure), a willingness to read anything recced my way, and some academic papers on fandom as a subculture - including a conference panel presentation - makes for a weird and wild fannish life.