My description of my fannish style got a little wordy, which I apologize for. I hope you actually find this sort of thing interesting!
I clicked gorilla, though it's something more complicated than that. I shift main fandoms about twice a year or so, depending on whether or not the group goes on hiatus (NSync), or I get really sick of the fans (Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, and Harry Potter), or I realize I'm not very good at watching the canon (SGA). I'll be very devoted and single-minded in my attention to my main fandom, but once the honeymoon is over it moves back into the harem to make room for a new principal fandom.
I'm really good at inferring canon from fanfiction, so I'll read my favorite authors (or favorite recommenders) in any fandom, and sometimes will go on reading sprees in a single fandom. For example, I recently zipped through all of the House fiction I could find, since I was recommended one House/Wilson fic that got me hankering for more, but since then I haven't read anything. I have about five or six fandoms I consider myself a solid fan in -- aware of canon, main authors, kerfuffles, etc. -- but only one or two main fandoms that I'm truly obsessive about.
I clicked five years, since that's how long I've been on LJ, and I think 2001 is around the time I googled "nsync slash" and found helenish's website. Let me state for the record, however, that I am still the most rabid Nat/Dan (Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott) shipper ever, and have been since I was eight years old. I wrote a long, elaborate story about their Big Gay Love at eight, actually. It was AWESOME. And full of h/c.
Fun poll! Thank you. And sorry about the comment babble, again.
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I clicked gorilla, though it's something more complicated than that. I shift main fandoms about twice a year or so, depending on whether or not the group goes on hiatus (NSync), or I get really sick of the fans (Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, and Harry Potter), or I realize I'm not very good at watching the canon (SGA). I'll be very devoted and single-minded in my attention to my main fandom, but once the honeymoon is over it moves back into the harem to make room for a new principal fandom.
I'm really good at inferring canon from fanfiction, so I'll read my favorite authors (or favorite recommenders) in any fandom, and sometimes will go on reading sprees in a single fandom. For example, I recently zipped through all of the House fiction I could find, since I was recommended one House/Wilson fic that got me hankering for more, but since then I haven't read anything. I have about five or six fandoms I consider myself a solid fan in -- aware of canon, main authors, kerfuffles, etc. -- but only one or two main fandoms that I'm truly obsessive about.
I clicked five years, since that's how long I've been on LJ, and I think 2001 is around the time I googled "nsync slash" and found
Fun poll! Thank you. And sorry about the comment babble, again.