Strangest fandoms.
Dec. 20th, 2013 01:19 amDecember 20: Your strangest fandom (interpret this how you will) (from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
plasmoids)
When I first thought about this, I was thinking of "fandoms for unusual or obscure things" (which generally I've not been in), and then "fandoms who behave strangely", but let's face it, every fandom is capable of doing shit that just does not make sense when viewed from outside that specific fandom. (Citations: ship wars, fandom_wank, tinfoil hattery, CrystalWank, showing fic to the actors, and all the other headdesky stuff we collectively do. Oh, fandom. ♥)
Really, though, the only way I can interpret the question to actually yield a meaningful answer is to see it as "which fandom experience has been the least typical for me?"
The answer would have to be Constantine (which is, I think, the fandom where I first metplasmoids). Not because there was anything unusual about Constantine itself, or the fandom, but because I was so active. I joined comms. I helped run a comm. I read everything I could find. I threw myself into every discussion I saw, and squee'd madly over the (extremely awesome) fics the fandom was producing.
Hell, I even wrote fic for it. (Not that I ever posted it.) Now that is strange. :)
Because I don't tend to write fic often, and struggle when I do, I often feel isolated from fandom - I will happily meta until the cows come home, but mostly fannish conversations happen through fic, and because I'm just a reader, I don't tend to get to have those conversations. So Constantine fandom was a very unusual (and memorable, and enjoyable) experience for me.
(And why the hell don't I have any Constantine icons on DW?!)
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plasmoids)When I first thought about this, I was thinking of "fandoms for unusual or obscure things" (which generally I've not been in), and then "fandoms who behave strangely", but let's face it, every fandom is capable of doing shit that just does not make sense when viewed from outside that specific fandom. (Citations: ship wars, fandom_wank, tinfoil hattery, CrystalWank, showing fic to the actors, and all the other headdesky stuff we collectively do. Oh, fandom. ♥)
Really, though, the only way I can interpret the question to actually yield a meaningful answer is to see it as "which fandom experience has been the least typical for me?"
The answer would have to be Constantine (which is, I think, the fandom where I first met
plasmoids). Not because there was anything unusual about Constantine itself, or the fandom, but because I was so active. I joined comms. I helped run a comm. I read everything I could find. I threw myself into every discussion I saw, and squee'd madly over the (extremely awesome) fics the fandom was producing. Hell, I even wrote fic for it. (Not that I ever posted it.) Now that is strange. :)
Because I don't tend to write fic often, and struggle when I do, I often feel isolated from fandom - I will happily meta until the cows come home, but mostly fannish conversations happen through fic, and because I'm just a reader, I don't tend to get to have those conversations. So Constantine fandom was a very unusual (and memorable, and enjoyable) experience for me.
(And why the hell don't I have any Constantine icons on DW?!)
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