Hey there! Just filled out this poll so that you could compare with the other poll asking my flist what they think of my fannish archetype.
Anyway, to explain my "Chimera" answer. I think I'm actually a cross between a Gorilla and a Lone Wolf. I have what I call my one primary fandom and my two secondary fandoms. It doesn't quite fit Lone Wolf, though, because my two secondary fandoms are even smaller than my primary, which is of average size. In fact, given that I write almost exclusively crossovers between my two secondary fandoms (and with a crossover pairing, even), one could say that I really have a primary fandom (NCIS) and a single, cracked out combination secondary fandom (Numb3rs/CSI:NY crossovers with a Don Eppes/Mac Taylor pairing).
Amusingly, before I got into NCIS and then Numb3rs/CSI:NY, I never had more than one fandom at a time. Ever. If I started getting into a new fandom, that was always the death knell for the preceding fandom. So up until about a year ago (when I added Numb3rs/CSI:NY to my repetoire), I was most certainly a serial monogamist. I still think of myself that way, due to an interesting bit of mental acrobatics resulting from an AU I write which has somehow convinced my brain that my Numb3rs/CSI:NY stories are actually part of NCIS fandom, which is why I checked serial monogamy. Yes, my brain is broken in many ways. *g*
I am, at the moment, deeply amused by the fact that so far the leading answer in the poll on my LJ is "magpie". That is one of two answeres (the other being Canadian goose) that I most definitely am not. I have to wonder why they think that--do they think that three fandoms are a lot?
I also think it's significant to note that of all the non-writing fandom participation I do, of eight different types I do all eight in NCIS fandom, but only two in Numb3rs/CSI:NY. (It would be three, but no one else in the LJ universe writes Don Eppes/Mac Taylor, so I can't read it even though I'd love to.)
And that was way more info than you needed, I suspect. *g* I'll stop now.
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Anyway, to explain my "Chimera" answer. I think I'm actually a cross between a Gorilla and a Lone Wolf. I have what I call my one primary fandom and my two secondary fandoms. It doesn't quite fit Lone Wolf, though, because my two secondary fandoms are even smaller than my primary, which is of average size. In fact, given that I write almost exclusively crossovers between my two secondary fandoms (and with a crossover pairing, even), one could say that I really have a primary fandom (NCIS) and a single, cracked out combination secondary fandom (Numb3rs/CSI:NY crossovers with a Don Eppes/Mac Taylor pairing).
Amusingly, before I got into NCIS and then Numb3rs/CSI:NY, I never had more than one fandom at a time. Ever. If I started getting into a new fandom, that was always the death knell for the preceding fandom. So up until about a year ago (when I added Numb3rs/CSI:NY to my repetoire), I was most certainly a serial monogamist. I still think of myself that way, due to an interesting bit of mental acrobatics resulting from an AU I write which has somehow convinced my brain that my Numb3rs/CSI:NY stories are actually part of NCIS fandom, which is why I checked serial monogamy. Yes, my brain is broken in many ways. *g*
I am, at the moment, deeply amused by the fact that so far the leading answer in the poll on my LJ is "magpie". That is one of two answeres (the other being Canadian goose) that I most definitely am not. I have to wonder why they think that--do they think that three fandoms are a lot?
I also think it's significant to note that of all the non-writing fandom participation I do, of eight different types I do all eight in NCIS fandom, but only two in Numb3rs/CSI:NY. (It would be three, but no one else in the LJ universe writes Don Eppes/Mac Taylor, so I can't read it even though I'd love to.)
And that was way more info than you needed, I suspect. *g* I'll stop now.