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kindkit7. What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
Losing interest is my biggest reason for leaving, though I've occasionally left fandoms because of something I couldn't accept. Maybe it became clear that the source text was queerbaiting (Torchwood, actually, for the way it kept elevating het ships over non-het ones); maybe the quality went way down (New Who, imo); maybe the source and/or the people who made it did a massive racism or other fail and the fandom collectively shrugged (Top Gear, Harry Potter--I'd already wandered away from HP long before Rowling became the face of transphobia, but some of the reason I did was discontent with the heteronormativity, sexism, coded racism and antisemitism, slavery-apologetics, and utter failure to even try to change the status quo in the books themselves, and a lot of fans questioned it but a lot tried to justify it, too).
Even my love for The Magnus Archives and other RQ shows has been tempered by some pretty shitty decisions that Rusty Quill as a company has made. But I have to admit that I've watched some of the streams about The Magnus Protocol, and watching Alex and Jonny and Helen and Alasdair hanging out and having fun did a lot to rekindle my affection. I haven't contributed to the Kickstarter, but I also haven't ended my Patreon support like I had planned to after RQ laid off some staffers. Still trying to decide how I want to respond to the situation of "far from perfect ethically, but less bad than big corporations and probably less bad than a lot of small media companies, too." Trouble is, they promised to be good, and for a while they were or at least seemed to be, and I am saddened proportionately to the weight of my expectations.
Finally--this is getting to be a longer answer than I expected--I can be sort of estranged from a fandom by the overall tone of fan behavior. I might not actually leave, but I'll keep my distance. I'm keeping my distance from most of Our Flag Means Death fandom, which early on hit a critical mass to become, shall we say, explosive.
The full list of questions is here:
1. What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
2. Your newest fandom.
3. You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them?
4. What are the origins of your penname/username?
5. What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
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.
7. What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
8. Squicks - What are some things that squick you in fandom - not necessarily "icky", though it can be. From anything involving blood, to bad grammar.
9. What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
10. Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
11. Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
12. A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
13. Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?
14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
15. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
16. Do you remember your first OTP? Who was in it?
17. What is your favourite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?
18. How many fandoms have you written for? How many have you been in, and how many are you still in?
19. Has social media caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
20. What fandom broke your heart?
21. Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you dislike or even loathe.)
22. Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
23. Your rarest fandoms.
24. A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
25. Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
26. A trope which you are virtually certain to love in any fandom.
27. A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
28. How did you first get into fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote fic for?
29. Have you ever tried to write for a fandom or ship, and found you couldn’t?
30. Name three things you wish you saw more of in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
Losing interest is my biggest reason for leaving, though I've occasionally left fandoms because of something I couldn't accept. Maybe it became clear that the source text was queerbaiting (Torchwood, actually, for the way it kept elevating het ships over non-het ones); maybe the quality went way down (New Who, imo); maybe the source and/or the people who made it did a massive racism or other fail and the fandom collectively shrugged (Top Gear, Harry Potter--I'd already wandered away from HP long before Rowling became the face of transphobia, but some of the reason I did was discontent with the heteronormativity, sexism, coded racism and antisemitism, slavery-apologetics, and utter failure to even try to change the status quo in the books themselves, and a lot of fans questioned it but a lot tried to justify it, too).
Even my love for The Magnus Archives and other RQ shows has been tempered by some pretty shitty decisions that Rusty Quill as a company has made. But I have to admit that I've watched some of the streams about The Magnus Protocol, and watching Alex and Jonny and Helen and Alasdair hanging out and having fun did a lot to rekindle my affection. I haven't contributed to the Kickstarter, but I also haven't ended my Patreon support like I had planned to after RQ laid off some staffers. Still trying to decide how I want to respond to the situation of "far from perfect ethically, but less bad than big corporations and probably less bad than a lot of small media companies, too." Trouble is, they promised to be good, and for a while they were or at least seemed to be, and I am saddened proportionately to the weight of my expectations.
Finally--this is getting to be a longer answer than I expected--I can be sort of estranged from a fandom by the overall tone of fan behavior. I might not actually leave, but I'll keep my distance. I'm keeping my distance from most of Our Flag Means Death fandom, which early on hit a critical mass to become, shall we say, explosive.
The full list of questions is here:
1. What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
2. Your newest fandom.
3. You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them?
4. What are the origins of your penname/username?
5. What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
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.
7. What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
8. Squicks - What are some things that squick you in fandom - not necessarily "icky", though it can be. From anything involving blood, to bad grammar.
9. What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
10. Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
11. Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
12. A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
13. Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?
14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
15. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
16. Do you remember your first OTP? Who was in it?
17. What is your favourite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?
18. How many fandoms have you written for? How many have you been in, and how many are you still in?
19. Has social media caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
20. What fandom broke your heart?
21. Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you dislike or even loathe.)
22. Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
23. Your rarest fandoms.
24. A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
25. Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
26. A trope which you are virtually certain to love in any fandom.
27. A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
28. How did you first get into fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote fic for?
29. Have you ever tried to write for a fandom or ship, and found you couldn’t?
30. Name three things you wish you saw more of in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
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Date: 2022-12-01 03:12 am (UTC)*nods* I've got no problem with people doing fanworks of her stuff, though I think that it's a situation where leaning hard into the "transformative" aspect is important. I do think people shouldn't be spending money on her stuff, because she's using her massive resources for harm.