Maius Intra Qua Extra

I threatened to meme my way through my journal in my last entry, so here it is. I got this meme from purplecat, who got it from the meme originator, trobadora, who put it together from a number of other memes, thus the name, Frankenstein's Meme". I am using it in the same way that Trobadora used it, to get myself posting again (and not about work stuff). I doubt I'll do this every day, but I will my best to finish it. So here goes.

Question 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?


This is actually really hard to say. A year ago, we were still in the first stretch of COVID lockdown, about the time when people were really starting to complain that the government was being too strict - they weren't dead, after all, so why should they be forbidden from going out and spreading the pandemic socializing as they saw fit? Not much has changed on that front.

My fandom life has been pretty low for a while now, with a greatly reduced amount of writing and only the barest minimum of keeping up with Doctor Who on LJ and DW. It didn't help that the show had already been on break when the pandemic started, so there was no new season likely to come for a while. So, really, the only change in my fandom life was that it was totally killed by the problems at work, which exhausted me and stifled my creativity. I'm trying to recover now, and I expect it'll be slow.

We are in the middle of a rewatch of the modern show, though we started that months ago and keep getting stuck on episodes we don't like. Right now, we're stuck on "Voyage of the Damned", not because we dont like it, but because it requires changing the disc from the end of series 3 to the beginning of series 4. That is how lazy we are. We had intended on watching all of series 2 including the Trifecta of Suck ("The Idiot's Lantern", "Fear Her", and "Love & Monsters"), but we got stuck on "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit", a story that neither of us understand or enjoy. After procrastinating on that for two months, we finally gave up and just jumped to the end of the season. (It's a bit disappointing, because I had actually been looking forward to "Fear Her". I haven't seen it in years, but my recollection is that the episode is actually pretty good if you ignore the thing with the Doctor and the torch and the ending with girl's father coming back out of her drawing. It's a great example of how a story can be ruined by adding extraneous nonsense.)

I haven't picked up any new fandoms that I know of. We have watched new shows in the past year, but nothing that captured my heart, not like DW or Good Omens. I did finally read Warbreaker and that was amazing (Lightsong and Scoot are the best...), but I am actively resisting falling headlong into the Cosmere because I just can't commit to reading that much. Though Mistborn keeps whispering in my ear...


Full list of questions below the cut.

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).