Fannish end of year meme
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selenakYour main fandom of the year? I remain a multifandom person.
Your favorite film watched this year? Pride contending with X:Men: Days of Future Past contending with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Your favorite book read this year? I was most impressed by Robert A. Caro’s multi volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson biography/biographies. Informative, suspenseful; Caro accomplishes that rare balance act of not airbrushing his subject’s flaws (and Johnson could be pretty terrible) while doing justice to his achievements.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?: Doctor Who: Fanfare for the Common Man. What? It’s a Big Finish audio, therefore an album, and it’s aboutThe Beatles a band from Liverpool who isn’t really, complete with songs.
Your favorite TV show of the year? The Americans competing with Penny Dreadful
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? See above.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? I wasn’t really in the fandom, but the second Amazing Spiderman took all away that made the first one enjoyable and added the flaws, but not virtues from the Raimi films. Eh.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? Porthos from The Musketeers. Because Porthos! (There are a few other men who’ve caught my fancy, but Porthos is the only one I’d date in real life, since I’m not suicidal or an emotional masochist.)
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Movieverse Raven/Mystique. Loved, loved, loved her in X-Men: Days of Future Past. (Loved her before, too, of course, but it only grows stronger.)
Your biggest squee moment of the year? Logan wakes up 'in the near future' and realizes X3 got just wiped out of existence. Competing with: Belle, after realizing the truth, saves the day and banishes Rumplestilskin from Storybrooke, turning his magic against him and taking it away. Best moment of that type since Annie cut off Mitchell’s 'but I love you!' protestations with 'have you any idea how inadequate that sounds?' after hearing about the box car massacre.
The most missed of your old fandoms? Babylon 5, not just because of my show love but because the fannish interaction I had when active in the fandom was so positive. (By which I don’t mean uncritical of aspects of the show. Just that discussion and fanfiction writing – and if you co back long enough, roleplaying – was such fun.) With a lot of newer fandoms, I’ve got to stick to a few fellow fans to talk to and sometimes (as with OuaT) even have given up on seeking out fanfiction, because there’s so much bile around.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? Still Slings and Arrows.
Your favorite film watched this year? Pride contending with X:Men: Days of Future Past contending with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Your favorite book read this year? I was most impressed by Robert A. Caro’s multi volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson biography/biographies. Informative, suspenseful; Caro accomplishes that rare balance act of not airbrushing his subject’s flaws (and Johnson could be pretty terrible) while doing justice to his achievements.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?: Doctor Who: Fanfare for the Common Man. What? It’s a Big Finish audio, therefore an album, and it’s about
Your favorite TV show of the year? The Americans competing with Penny Dreadful
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? See above.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? I wasn’t really in the fandom, but the second Amazing Spiderman took all away that made the first one enjoyable and added the flaws, but not virtues from the Raimi films. Eh.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? Porthos from The Musketeers. Because Porthos! (There are a few other men who’ve caught my fancy, but Porthos is the only one I’d date in real life, since I’m not suicidal or an emotional masochist.)
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Movieverse Raven/Mystique. Loved, loved, loved her in X-Men: Days of Future Past. (Loved her before, too, of course, but it only grows stronger.)
Your biggest squee moment of the year? Logan wakes up 'in the near future' and realizes X3 got just wiped out of existence. Competing with: Belle, after realizing the truth, saves the day and banishes Rumplestilskin from Storybrooke, turning his magic against him and taking it away. Best moment of that type since Annie cut off Mitchell’s 'but I love you!' protestations with 'have you any idea how inadequate that sounds?' after hearing about the box car massacre.
The most missed of your old fandoms? Babylon 5, not just because of my show love but because the fannish interaction I had when active in the fandom was so positive. (By which I don’t mean uncritical of aspects of the show. Just that discussion and fanfiction writing – and if you co back long enough, roleplaying – was such fun.) With a lot of newer fandoms, I’ve got to stick to a few fellow fans to talk to and sometimes (as with OuaT) even have given up on seeking out fanfiction, because there’s so much bile around.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? Still Slings and Arrows.
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Date: 2014-12-31 09:02 am (UTC)Good times. Maybe the fannish wheel will turn and one or both of us will get re-obsessed, eh?
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Date: 2014-12-31 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-31 03:05 pm (UTC)Also, a weird blast from the past: did you know I was one of the moderators of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, back in the day? :)
-J
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Date: 2015-01-01 04:08 pm (UTC)Wow, if that's true, I'm going to be totally insufferable about my mad recruitment skillz from now on. ;)
-J
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Date: 2015-01-01 04:31 pm (UTC)-J
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