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

[thete1.livejournal.com]

It was hard answering the second question, because -- well, we've already talked about it. I started out polygamous -- though I only *produced* (fiction, meta, recs) in one fandom for a while, and I thought I'd always stay that way. That, you know, I'd have one primary fandom for about a year or so, and several other fandoms to dabble in. (You know, how I run my love life. *snerk*)

It continues to surprise me that I've *become* so monogamous. I mean -- even though I fully expect to write a few things in a few other fandoms this year -- just as I did last year and the year before -- it just doesn't *count*.

My heart, soul, and *brain* are in the DCU, and I see very little sign of that changing, even after nearly *two years* of actively avoiding the current canon. I got nothin'.

You were right -- even though I didn't know it, I *was* looking for my One True Fandom. And I appear to have found it.

So, yeah. I am a "generally monogamous fan who will occasionally do other things, but mostly those *other* things will be for challenges/as gifts to beloved friends."

Even reading/viewing outside my main fandom when I haven't been *asked* to do it doesn't feel like it counts. When I saw that someone had written an Olivia (BtVS minor character of color) story, I jumped all over it... but that was because of... hmm. "Intellectual" rather than "emotional" reasons. Just as my recent reading in SG-1 is "visceral" rather than "emotional." It's gotta be emo to count.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

It was hard answering the second question, because -- well, we've already talked about it.

Yeah. The conversation with you was one of the ones that inspired this little poll, as you could probably tell. That, plus a couple other conversations, plus my oven.

My heart, soul, and *brain* are in the DCU, and I see very little sign of that changing, even after nearly *two years* of actively avoiding the current canon. I got nothin'.

Stunned admiration (or stunned something) coming from me, here. Your fannish theme song really is Stand by Your Man (Even If He Beats You up and Whores Around and Goes into Regular Fugue States).

But, hey. As it happens, I love your man (from a distance), and I'm selfishly happy you're standing by him. You give us all something to read in the DCU besides the horror that is the current continuity. For which I thank you.

I only wish you could get back in line. Maybe, I don't know, therapy? Hey! We could schedule an intervention with the editors and writers!

Just as my recent reading in SG-1 is "visceral" rather than "emotional." It's gotta be emo to count.

You know, for all that you wound up married to one of the world's most abusive fandoms, I envy you for having found your One True Fandom. Because your fandom gets you where you live, if I can borrow some hideous psychobabble - it nails your needs and emotions perfectly. But I'm still going out to visit all my fandoms, if that makes sense, except the ones I make up in my head. (Ah, yes, topic for another poll: do other people have imaginary fandoms?) But, hey, that means I can drop in on you and DCU anytime, see what you crazy (and in his case, I mean that literally) kids are up to.

(Wow. Was this the most hideously metaphor-filled comment ever? Yes, I think it was, and I apologize. But - for some reason it's hard for me to talk about fandom and the way we relate to it except through metaphor. I have no idea why.)