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

[luminosity]

I'm a Phoenix. I'm long-lived and golden, and I self-immolate, only to rise again from the ashes, brand new and shiny, containing all that I was before. I've noticed this behavior in my three major online fandoms: Highlander flamed out (magnificently) into Jossverse which fell from the sky like a meteor into Farscape which burned like a gigantic pinwheel sparkler into Supernatural, with its flames flickering and gaining strength and its wings spreading, brilliant in the sun.

Or? I sit here and brood.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

You know, that totally makes sense. (And that is the best icon-comment match that I have ever seen, I think. *admires*)

So, does the burning destruction mean you never return to your older fandoms? Are they dead beyond recall? Or do you, after a while, think of them fondly?

[luminosity]

Thank you for the icon admiration. [Unknown site tag] made it for me nearly three years ago. It's one of my favorite paintings, "Fighting Forms" by Franz Marc. Ah! the Fauves! (maybe I'm a fauve vidder--which is my uber-fandom, engulf-and-devouring everything else)

Anyway, I believe that I, as I burn up and am reborn, keep within me the essence of each fandom that came before, e.g., I can't look at Daddy Winchester without seeing Duncan MacLeod. :) That could be a very romantic way of saying that I observe/cherish the same tropes over and over.

[luminosity]

laurashapiro [close those brackets!!][headdesk]