fandom progressions

[silverflight8]

Tortall, Ragwitch -> Young Wizards, Kiesha'ra series -> Outlander series, Private Series, Shopaholic -> apathy -> Temeraire, Collegia Magica, Kushiel's Legacy -> ??

I still revisit some of them once in a blue moon. MLP:FiM, IPS, and others don't count, because I never wrote fic or went looking for fic, just enjoyed them (and that can be said of literally hundreds of books).

So!
Yours?

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[pipisafoat]

idfk

It all started with HP. Or LOTR. I can't remember? But only LOTR RPS, and that's one I've never ever gone back to. And then idk. I could potentially make you a list of "things i have enjoyed only source" and "things i have enjoyed source and fandom" and even "things i have enjoyed fandom but not source" and, to round it out, "things i have enjoyed fandom and was slowly drawn into source by fandom, eventually enjoying source as well"

my fandom life is a little bit abnormal that way. coming in the back door (*snorts*) in some cases and thus having already spoiled the crap out of myself before even thinking about source and in other cases being absolutely neurotic about spoilers and every now and then, devouring spoilers as I go.

I'm also a really odd HP fan, I have discovered. because I got a copy of 1 in England and was omg-in-love from then and found tiny tiny niche fandom and I even remember that JK posted a chapter from 2 online before it came out for a short time only and I read it then (Deathday whatever) which is actually my least favorite chapter, and I think that is where I picked up my general distaste for spoilers, I think I would have liked the chapter better in the book if I hadn't already read it and knew what was going to happen. anyway, then when fandom exploded I said "fuck you all" and moved on to other tiny tiny niche fandoms (I have a type) but then I kept finding myself drawn back in. for various pairings or for various types of fic (I am a sucker for different-houses AUs of any type, and Noble And Most Ancient House fics, etc etc) and, my primary fandom experience is fic but I also love meta and art and vids (some vids; I'm picky on vids) etc etc.

millions of fandoms but clearly HP is my longest lasting one. actually I can't think of a single other fandom that even comes close. partly because that one has been around so long for me but also because I don't go back to most of my older fandoms? I guess you could count stargates as ones I went back to, but I was only vaguely and peripherally involved in them to begin with, whereas now I would say "actual active involvement" in the form of reading fairly regularly (hard to be actually regular when you're in a million at once) and actual conversations with other fans, that's sort of more rare for me. I am not a social person! (pip says after a giant ramble at you)


some things that I love the crap out of right now I don't want fic of but I would enjoy meta but meta alone in my head doesn't really count as fandom (unless it's fandom-meta, or meta-about-fanon, or meta on support for various noncanon pairings, etcetc) so. actually sometimes when I feel that way I go looking for fic just to see if there is a lot and sometimes I'm like "oh, look, that's really nice, there's a decent fandom out there for you, show, that's nice!" or other times i'm like "oh, look, your fans agree with me that fic isn't necessary for you, that's nice, show."

because i am weird and do not require sense. everything is nice!

[silverflight8]

LotR is one of those fandoms that I really enjoyed but never felt the impulse to ever read or want fic for (whereas the ending of something GWTW hit me like a truck and therefore I went on a desperate search for sequels - this was before I found fandom and so I went for estate-sanctioned 'sequels'.)

Yeah...I often read books out of order, so I have spoilered the heck out of myself. Especially for Kushiel's Legacy, in which I actively went out looking for information for fic, got spoilered, and kept reading the spoilers :P It's okay; I'm not really in it for plot, just the worldbuilding and characters and politics and did I mention worldbuilding?

It's really hard to imagine HP as a niche fandom, though of course it must have started that way; it's been connected to "superfandom" in my mind for ever.

I am turning over the definition of meta. I mean, what goes under meta? Speculation about events? ?? Sometimes I go and read reviews for books I like but don't have fandoms for (or tvtropes, that's also fun) but often the review criticize the books in some way and then all I can do is >:( . Meta-of-fanon - that's like anthropology, almost...

I wonder if there's a trend in things that you want a fandom for and things that you're just happy to enjoy without fandom. I am always ready to talk about a book to anyone, but as for creating fic or reading fic...ehhh.

(Everything live-media has been through some kind of backdoor. Star Wars - from the EU. IPS - from you ;)