I started this ages ago, then skipped a day because there was a question that bored me, and then forgot to start back up again. But lately, I feel like talking about fandom.
6. What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.I was probably in Buffyverse the longest as an active participant, reading and writing fic; it was also my first fandom. I never thought I'd lose interest, but I did. I'd written a lot, exploring most of what I wanted to explore, and I also experienced my first few rounds of fandom drama and got stung by that (not entirely unmerited), and so in the end I left without much of a backward glance.
I tend to be serially monogamous with my fandoms. Occasionally there's overlap, or I get into a very broadly defined fandom (like Doctor Who with its two TV series and its multiple book series and its audiobooks, or what I called the World Wars Megafandom, which was a lot of war-related texts with no other connection), but usually I obsess about one canon for a while and then move on. There are old fandoms that I think of fondly, and I might even read a fic or watch a vid if I happened upon one, but I'm unlikely to create in this fandoms ever again.
I know this will happen someday with OFMD and I'm already sad about it, because I love the show so much. (Please, S2, don't fuck it up.)
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