Q&A,, fandom-related

[syredronning]

Referring to catalenamara's posting about Fannish Migration.

The answers will only show that I'm a very boring fan with a 95% main fandom (aka TOS) and little on the side (other Trek).

Q: Have you ever followed friends/favorite authors into a fandom without ever having seen/read the source material?

No.

Q. Have you ever followed friends/favorite authors into a fandom while being indifferent to the source material?

No.

Q. Have you ever really enjoyed the source material, read the work of specific authors into a fandom, and yet have no interest in the fandom as a whole?

Supernatural may count here, as I read only very few authors (Killa mainly). I like the pretty boy pictures *G* including the RPS stuff. Also, some Harry Potter stuff.

As for Heroes, I read only few fics.

Q. Have you ever been strenuously pimped by your friends into another fandom and immediately fell in love with the source material.

No. I'd say the biggest pimping was done by my husband who brought X-Files and B5 into my life, but he's not fannish in the fandom way.

Q. Have you ever gotten into a TV show/movie before your friends and busily pimped the source material to them in the hopes that a fandom would ensue?

Heroes may count here, but I pimped the source mainly because I liked the source. I'm not heavily involved in the fandom.

Q. Have you ever gotten into a TV show/movie and tried to pimp it to your friends only to find out that they’d just gotten into it as well and were about to pimp right back?

Well, Trek? But I was a single small fan for decades without any contact to fandoms, and when I got here, everyone was already infected. Though when it comes to Trek pairings, I think I'm rather good at pimping and getting pimped by certain people.

Q: Have you ever been part of a mass migration into another fandom?

No.

(Told you I was boring. I'll keep my seat in trek fandom until it dies of old age. Seems there's one love of my life, and it's TOS. My one true, eternal love. Everything else is just a little amusement on the side.)

Comments

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Personally, I dislike fannish migration (mostly because it makes me sad to see favourite authors occupied with stuff I don't care about) and I don't actually understand it, either -- once I love a fandom, some major bullshit has to happen for me to stop loving it! I may have periods of more and of less intense immersion in a specific fandom, but it's not at all unusual for me to go back to something after years of not thinking about it for a moment. Your 95% of TOS are really impressive, but almost as foreign. I've sort of been a 'Trekkie' since I was three years old, but that doesn't mean I can't temporarily let it rest in favour of something else I'm more enthusiastic about for a year or two. Hm.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

My phases are long. Enthusiasm usually lasts >5 years.

My love for Trek was always there but oscillating between low and high over three decades before I found online fandom. And actually it's the only fandom I consider myself to be a part of.

(I did tapdancing for 9 years, engaged myself deeply into bdsm for some years and all, but no fandoms. Just other interests :)

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

I was such a slash slut in the 90s! Late 80s, a lot of Trek fic went all fluffy bunny and though I never left the fandom - obviously! - I started getting into little flirtations on the side, as it were. Other fandoms, at that time, offered the variety and the harder-edged fic I was looking for. Fortunately, Trek fandom revived.

I never truly leave a fandom, but most of the fandoms I've been in throughout the years tend to go dormant after awhile. Trek, however, is a constant. It's my home. It's where I put most of my time and energy. But I'm always up for reading a good story in the other fandoms that I enjoy, though I rely on friends and crack_van to rec the good fic.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

I know you are multifandom, and honestly, there are times I wish I were too because the biggest fun seems to take place somewhere else, but obviously the slot "fandom love" is hard-wired to Trek. I keep an open mind, though *G*

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine ever leaving Trek; it's all that I ever want to write these days. But I'm sure I'll also carry on with my side flirtations. ;-)

[polly-b.livejournal.com]

Though when it comes to Trek pairings, I think I'm rather good at pimping and getting pimped by certain people.

That, my dear friend, is the understatement of the century, lol. You rule. *bows*

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thank you! :))