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

[rhi]

I'm one of your chimera/mythical beasties: I have two main fandoms, and I write crossovers with lots of other fandoms, and occasionally a standalone story in the other fandoms... but mostly? My main two. Neat poll -- thank you!

[rhi]

::winces:: And actually, come to think of it, I wrote my first X-men fic more than 20 years ago, and read my first Star Trek fan/profic um... even earlier. Oh, dear.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Not to worry. We all have deep, dark secrets in our distant pasts. I recently dredged up the unfortunate memory of my First Ever Fan Fiction, which was Laura Ingalls Wilder's diary. From the Little House books. Written when I was exceedingly wee.

At least for yours, you were writing the X-Men. I mean, for that alone you get about three million coolness points more than I've got.

[rhi]

::giggling:: I was eleven and bored. Writing about the X-Men playing a baseball game was more fun than English, and my English teacher even edited it for me.... (The icon, however, is all too apropos...)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

*nods*

So you're a swallow with turtle tendencies? Or is it more hummingbird tendencies? (And, yes, I'm aware that I have now strained this metaphor well past its natural breaking point. I don't care. I'm attached to it, by gum.)

[rhi]

I think I'm a Canadian swallow: two fandoms I've been loyal to for about ten years now. But of course I'm a mythical beast. ::grins at you:: Check the icon.