Shiny Things

Challenge #15: Fandom Wrapped!

My top 5 fandoms for 2023 were: Critical Role (mostly Mighty Nein), Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor, Forspoken for a while, and... that's kind of it. Most of my old favourites got attention but none were The Current Obsesssion.

My top 5 fandom spaces in 2023 were: In terms of time, Ao3, with Tumblr close behind. DreamWidth had much less going on, but it's my most social space.

The top 5 things I did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were: Ha, very little. I scribbled out two very short fics, and other than that, I think commenting on and reccing fics is most all the interaction I've done.

My top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were: Eh, I don't think I've contributed anything appreciable. Unless this means things that I appreciated? I appreciate SO much that other people havedone, I couldn't possibly pick 5, lol.

Bonus questions:

My fandom personality in 2023 was: The Silent Lurker(?)

In 2023, I discovered: I actually don't hate modern setting AUs, it's the (inevitably American)High School and (inevitably American)College (student) AUs that I hate.

My fandom home in 2023 was: Tumblr and Ao3 again, I'm really not very varied!

Challenge #2: Set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

2023 was a slow year for me for fandom, so I'd like to do more this year. I'm not going to set hard or high goals because that's the fastest way to feel like I've failed, but just more in general, in little ways.

I want to:

• Interact more with people in fannish spaces, both with the people I'm already mutually following and, hopefully, making new friends.
• Write a little fic here and there, maybe nothing finished/posted, but at least put some words on 'paper' here and there. Of course, this kind of needs me to be inspired and somewhat enthusiastic about a fandom again, which leads to:
• Enjoy fandom more, get enthused about at least one of my (existing or new) fandoms again. You know that feeling when your brain just won't stop spinning on a story or character, when you sit up in bed several times a night to write something down, when you lose yourself in hours of reading people's meta and headcanons and such and diving head-first into the A03 tags until you've got a huge stack of Marked For Later fics that'll take a few months to read through? That. I had that a little last year with Jedi Survivor, so this one shouldn't be too hard.

Fingers crossed!

Meme borrowed from the kindly author_by_night, and I'm picking and choosing questions to answer, since I don't do real life stuff online and some of them just aren't applicable.

December 3, 4, 5, 8 & 9 : talk about movies, television, books, games, art this year