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]

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[ken-more.livejournal.com]

Magpie/gorilla with partial zoologist leanings. I have two fandoms that I've followed for 12 years - ever since I heard about fandom existing outside my own head ("you mean other people follow these shows obsessively too?"), two that I've followed since their inception, one which I can blame entirely on you :) , five which I follow pretty closely, one relative new one, nine that are really small and don't have much life in them anymore, and six others that I haven't looked at in a while but I can still tell you who the major participants are and which are the most recced fics. Oh, and a couple of fanfic writers who could be considered their own fandom (the source text is fairly irrelevant to my level of interest in what they've written).

(That summary would have been nigh on impossible without well organised bookmark folders.)

Most of my "participation" is reading, so a fandom dying out won't make me dump it, so long as the fic doesn't disappear. I have about 9 current fandoms (in which I'll read anything), but I'll go back to the others whenever the mood strikes. It's also why I pick up shiny fandoms - I'll follow any rec if the story looks interesting and well-written.

I am trying harder to participate though - it turns out I have a very good memory for single lines from random fics. Ficfinder communities are my new playground :)